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Re: Rob, bug fix/suggestion

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Sep 06, 1999
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Derek Brown writes:
>  I have already figured out the solution though.  DOH!
> All I had to do was make a custom puts command,
> PUTS(handle,"blah")...

Under DOS and Windows everything you
write to the NUL device is quietly discarded.
e.g.

    integer nowhere
    nowhere = open("NUL", "w")
    puts(nowhere, "Hello?\n")

If you can't open a particular file, you could set the file
handle to nowhere, and the output would be discarded.

On Linux you can open "/dev/null" for the same purpose.

You can also redirect standard output into NUL,
e.g. on system commands:

     system("del temp.dat > NUL", 2)

Your solution (using an alternate routine for puts)
is probably just as good.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://www.RapidEuphoria.com