From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: sprintf() string length?
Date: 18 Oct 1997 00:36:04 GMT
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On 17 Oct 1997 23:59:54 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp George Foot
(mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk) wrote: 

: The technique isn't to write to a NULL pointer; it's to assign a FILE * to
: the filename "NUL" for DOS, or more portably "/dev/nul". Like so:
                                                       ^
and again:

: FILE *fp = fopen ("/dev/nul","wt");
                            ^

Oops; sorry! That's meant to be "/dev/null", both times. I'm getting carried
away with dropping `l's ;).

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford