Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:42:13 +0300
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:05:21 -0400
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> >Mark, could you please see what does Bash do with "> /dev/null" that
> >it doesn't do with ">> /dev/null"?
> 
> This program simulates (if I did it right) what Bash does with 'echo x > /dev/null'
> and 'echo x >> /dev/null'.

Thanks.

Based on this source, it looks like the only difference is that ">"
cause the library to issue this call:

     _write(fd, 0, 0);

(this should truncate the file).  Maybe W2K doesn't like this on
devices?  This should be easy to test in a short program.