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[Reinhard Kotucha]

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

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