Windows Equivalent

[chalbersma]

What's the windows equivilent to /dev/null on unix based systems?
Trying to move a program I originally programmed on FreeBSD to Windows and I gladly used /dev/null.
Thanks Chewy

[Null]

I think it's NUL:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
ofstream file("nul");

if(!file.is_open())
    cerr<<"File doesn't exist";
else cout <<"OK"<<endl; // nul always exists

file <<"WRITING TO NUL";
file.close();

  return 0;
}

When I ran this code, file simply didn't appear on disk. Plus, on Windows you can't have a file called NUL (or CON COM COM1 COM2...)

[kbw]

Plus, on Windows you can't have a file called NUL (or CON COM COM1 COM2...)
You can.

C:\Temp\1>copy con \\?\C:\Temp\1\NUL
Hello world^Z
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\Temp\1>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is BAB3-38DB

 Directory of C:\Temp\1

30/11/2010  18:06    <DIR>          .
30/11/2010  18:06    <DIR>          ..
30/11/2010  18:06                11 NUL
               1 File(s)             11 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  103,358,296,064 bytes free

C:\Temp\1>