Black hole file

[H. L. Rogers]

In article <498 at sdrc.UUCP> scjones at sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>
>	ls -l >blackhole ; cat blackhole
>
>I get nothing.  ls -l blackhole shows it has a reasonable size,
>but even od just shows a few zeros.

Uh, it works on my 5.2 system.  File blackhole shows 0
size for itself, but an ls -l of the parent directory reveals
a size equivalent to the number of characters sent to the
screen from the ls -l command.
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HL Rogers    (hl.rogers at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM)