On 8/22/06, nobu / ruby-lang.org <nobu / ruby-lang.org> wrote: > Hi, > > At Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:36:01 +0900, > John Johnson wrote in [ruby-talk:209921]: > > oblivion = File.open(nil, 'w') > > It is easy in 1.9. > > def nil.to_path > "/dev/null" > end The same thing works in 1.8.4 -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/