> (There's still a POSIX-ism in the generator, in that it tries to > write to "/dev/null". On Windows systems, I bet this will often > work, but create a real file with that name. It would be better, > and avoid portability problems, to guard the calls to fwrite, etc., > with "if (file)" rather than spew to "/dev/null", but that's for > another day.)
Both Cygwin and DJGPP know about /dev/null just fine. I don't know about MinGW though. But it's a lot faster if you don't do the write at all ;-)