Re: Windows users please test this for me

>>>f = open("NUL","a")
>>>f.write("whatever")
>>>f.flush()
>>It didn't create a file, as far as I can tell. I assume that's the
>>behavior you wanted? Is NUL a reserved word?
> Windows ==> NUL
> *nix ==> /dev/null

As a side note, Windows will also ignore case, extensions, and even path 
for the Nul file, so:
echo "Foo" > Nul.exe
won't create a file, and if you have a file called "nul.html", say from 
a Unix archive, you won't be able to correctly expand it.  (See 
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jpower/bugfixes/ for someone who's been 
bit by this.)

Later,
Blake.



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