Hi all,

On Thursday 12 Sep 2002 1:20 am, Tim Musson wrote:
> Hey Mohd,
>
> My MUA believes you used
> to write the following on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 at 4:13:56 AM.
>
>
>
> MS> Hi ,
> MS> How I can send my errors to a null device under windows
> environment(winxp). MS> I tried $myoutput= `anycommand 2>null ` , but
> always this command create a MS> file called null .
> MS> Thanks.
>
> for some reason, MS decided to implement using only one L in nul.
>
> $myoutput= `anycommand 2>nul`

This is due to an early limitation in DOS where devices could not be 3 
letters, e.g. prn, con.

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