From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 11:57:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DC937BAA9 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13EFI4-000B40-00; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:06:52 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13EFI3-0005IS-00; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:06:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:06:51 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" Cc: mhjoshi@att.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unix questions Message-ID: <20000717190651.O84045@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QN0KHc3254GHvltB" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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