From: James C. <ji...@wh...> - 2005-07-26 21:10:38
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On Monday 25 July 2005 17:47, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:54:00PM +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > Could you explain why the printer would crash if "/dev/null" > > was sent to it? > > > > Would other printers crash too if "/dev/null" is sent? > > Doing a word count on the (special) file /dev/null, > learns that the file is empty. It will do. /dev/null should return nothing but EOF characters as you read it. -- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981 |