Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:06:51 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com> Cc: mhjoshi@att.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unix questions Message-ID: <20000717190651.O84045@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C5313F9@xfc04.fc.hp.com> References: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C5313F9@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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--QN0KHc3254GHvltB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote: > Just received a correction, /dev/null returns the charecter \0 not 0. No, /dev/null returns *NOTHING*. You read it, you get EOF. > /dev/zero will return zero. /dev/zero returns a stream of zero bytes, that is '\0'. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / --QN0KHc3254GHvltB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: Mw7ZKzZbf8UBNIfEyN3gSo/02OGwVia7 iQCUAwUBOXNLOisPVtiZOS99AQEnCgP2KRZwPfNjTNBGtLyyQdmbozOszLe2sm+0 zDrtX60Cnb5OoIJOf2dkY1GrV4vm1l5NNDdTJ2UihN/v2F0iuYK61fGRgTDXDeNx b0sczcf+UNwscsGCO4Vhk61Tu1jzfJUJQEtPMYFSq1nbGYKTX/tShbFHt8SROSTx k9cISH//JA== =9R3Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QN0KHc3254GHvltB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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