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From: rcw@upas.UUCP (Robert White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: /dev/null: The final frontier
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 02:13:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 02:13:52 1987
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this line == can of raid

Some of these questions may be trivial. I've lost sleep over them:

Where do the bytes go when moved or copied to /dev/null?
Does the machine dissipate the data as heat?
How does a null device driver work?

Robert White
Graphics Information, Inc.
UUCP: seismo!hao!scicom!qetzal!rcw