On 02/28/11 01:46 pm, V?ctor Paesa wrote: >> Note: I'm not sure /dev/null is portable (what about MinGW/CygWin?). > Works for Cygwin. > MinGW builds use MSys that is a disguised old Cygwin. > Maybe OS/2 needs a redirection to "nul:" > Generally libc and the shell catch /dev/null redirects and uses nul: instead. Dave