From: Jonathan Foster <jgf1 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: sprintf() string length?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:51:57 +0100
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Ruiter de M wrote:
> Jonathan Foster (jgf1 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
> : you should fopen DOS's "NULL" file to send the output to.
> 
> You mean NUL. Not very portable solution.

Sorry about the typo!

> : (I think the UNIX equivalent is "/dev/nul", but I've never
> : used UNIX.)
> 
> That's "/dev/null" or "/dev/zero". Works for DJGPP too, automagicly :)
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thanks for pointing this out!  Saves loads of #defines and #ifdefs.
I should have known this, bearing in mind how closely DJGPP is tied
to UNIX, and how it's designed to make porting from UNIX easy.

> 
> Groeten, Michel.        http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter

-- 
   Jon Foster.

(1st Year Maths/Computer Science Student)