Re: [Lynx-dev] Startfile page not available

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Stef Caunter wrote:

> I'd probably get a local copy of a basic lynx helpfile to assist new users.
>
> Just tried
>
> lynx /dev/zero

/dev/zero would behave differently.  It returns data (zeros) without
a stop, but iirc, /dev/null is going to return an end-of-file.

> which is pretty interesting. Read stopped at 2095000KiB and then started up 
> again. Consumed all available cpu of course.
>
> Stef
> http://caunter.ca/contact.html
>
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > I seem to recall someone setting the file to /dev/null,
> > which is usually easy to find.

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