In <[email protected]>, on 08/28/2012
   at 07:16 PM, "R.S." <[email protected]> said:

>BTW: it's NOT similar to /dev/null or DD DUMMY. 

Of course it is.

>Zero-space dataset is real object, consuming real resources 
>(VTOC, maybe catalog) with no real (as intended) use.

/dev/null and DUMMY are also real objects consuming real resources
(space in /dev, TIOT emtry, JFCB, etc.) They all have real use.

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