[mrtg] Re: Somewhat O/T: /DEV/NULL equivalent on Windoz XP?

[Koelstra, J. (Jan)]

Evan,

'Nul:' is a valid device on any win32 platform, and is not only
restricted to redirecting output. However there is no directory
structure available on this device, and you can never retrieve anything
from it.

Some examples:
Copy <drive:\path> nul: will create a copy of the files to the null
device... 
You can even do a 'dir nul:', 'type nul:*' or 'md nul:new_directory'

Because there is no directory structure available you can not use
'nul:\' or any other path on this drive. 
'subst N: nul:' does work as long as you don't use any directories on
the drive, and do not use any commands the require data on the drive.

Hth,

Jan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Saxon [mailto:WillS at housing.ufl.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 8:32 PM
To: Evan Platt; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Somewhat O/T: /DEV/NULL equivalent on Windoz XP?



> 
> At 11:12 AM 03/24/2003, you wrote:
> >Not quite, it's actually nul with only one l.
> 
> This however doesn't appear to work for creating a subst drive (subst
> N: >NUL doesnt' return an error but doesn't work either)...
> 
> Evan

Well, I am not sure how the nul keyword is actually handled but I don't
think it is a device that you can map to things. What I have read
suggests that it is only good for redirecting output via >.

Also what I have read pertains to NT and 2000, would XP be different?

-Will

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