[net.micro.amiga] Bit bucket

rokicki@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) (08/29/86)

[ `--\- For the plane eater ]

I want a bit bucket!

The nil: device is nice, sometimes, but only provides half
of what is really needed.  If you try and open anything other
than nil: (for instance, nil:throw.me.away), it prompts for
a floppy named nil:.

So how do I throw away output from those programs which
automatically add an extension?  (Most programs search for
a `.'; if one is found, the file name is used as is; otherwise,
an extension is added.  Thus, nil:.lst won't open.)
Or is there another way?

So perhaps I'm being picky, but it should be easy enough
to add.  Right?

-tom "kick the bucket" rokicki