On 2014-08-21 at 22:14:11 +0000, Karl Berry wrote: > Is there any file in TeX that is guaranteed to be empty? > > No. > > There is /dev/null on Unix; don't know about Windows.
There is NUL on MS-DOS/Windows but it doesn't exist in the file system. Hence I suppose that it's only available on the command line (cmd.exe) but not in all scripting languages. And I never tried to _read_ from NUL. Regards, Reinhard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------
