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From: mchinni@ardec.arpa (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  Black hole file
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Date: 17 Jan 89 22:28:19 GMT
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> 	ls -l >blackhole ; cat blackhole
> I get nothing.  ls -l blackhole shows it has a reasonable size,
> but even od just shows a few zeros.  If I do this with a
> different file, it works like you would expect.  If I delete
> blackhole and try it again, I get the same results (I also get
> the same inode for the file, which I suspect is critical).
Works as expected (i.e blackhole has output from ls -l) on my systems 
(1 DEC, 2 Gould, 1 MASSCOMP all running unix).

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