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Old 15 March 2014, 12:23   #4
emufan
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Originally Posted by stefcep2 View Post
BTW what does the "run >NIL" actually do?
NIL: is a device, kind of /dev/null known from linux machines - a virtual trashcan.
output (text messages only) from run, in your example, is redirected to this, and not to the standard CON:
so the output is hidden and does not get displayed in a standard shell/cli window.
you have to write "run > NIL:" , using "run > NIL" would write the text-messsage into a file called "NIL"
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