Re: null terminal?

[Tait <gnu...@t4...>]

> > Should we perhaps create a null terminal (that silently discards
> > everything, like /dev/null) to facilitate iterating over files like
> > above?
>
> That was part of what the "stats" patchset was intended for.
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2894333&group_id=2055&atid=302055
> I don't know what's happened to the people who were preparing that
> for inclusion in CVS; it's gone silent.

I remember that. It seemed like a good idea to include as a program in
contrib. If the original author doesn't mind, maybe it can be revived
and modified a bit.