/dev/null is to unix as nul is to msdos

[2016nc]

/dev/null is to unix as nul is to msdos. just in case for some reason you need to port some happy unix code to msdos and needed to know. I came across this while looking for a way to get rid of the default message when calling pause from msdos.

system("pause > nul"//MSDOS

 

[xwb]

Sometimes code like that should be recoded. Instead of using system, why not just use

getch ();

That will also wait until you hit carriage return, especially on Unix. Alternatively, you could use the ioctl stuff.

However, as you said, if someone is just looking for a byte bucket, just pipe it into /dev/null.