Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Black hole file
Summary: It's a timing problem
Message-ID: <1019@vsi.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 89 07:03:03 GMT
References: <498@sdrc.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <498@sdrc.UUCP>, scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
< OK, I've got one for you guys.  I've got this file that just
< absorbs whatever get put into it.  For example, if I do:
< 
< 	ls -l >blackhole ; cat blackhole
< 
< I get nothing.

Uh, Larry, April is not for another couple of months.
My guess is that you just couldn't wait...

     Steve :-)

P.S. - what about the *gals* on the net? ;-)

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