On 2014-08-22 at 23:46:18 +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > Am 22.08.2014 um 22:18 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha: > > 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. > > As /dev/null and NUL are not trivially portable, any objections to > adding an empty file to TeX?
It doesn't make sense. Why do you want to read an empty file if you know in advance that it's empty? Regards, Reinhard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------
