On Thu, 24 May 2001, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> At 2:29 PM -0700 5/24/01, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> >
> >Hmm, ... odd. I thought that there already was a module in the core to
> >provide a platform independent null device.
>
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> $ search/win [.lib.file.spec]vms.pm null
> }
>
> =item devnull (override)
>
> Returns a string representation of the null device: '_NLA0:'
>
> =cut
>
> sub devnull {
> return "_NLA0:";
> }
Yes that is it :-). I don't know why I couldn't turn that up before.
I guess its time for a vacation.
Note to Tim, try the following:
write sys$output f$trnlnm("NL:")
and you'll see that "NL:" and "_NLA0:" are related.
Peter Prymmer
