agreed,
in nearly every root dir You'll find sooner or later a textfile called Null 
I think Simon Travaglia firstly invented this
to be the only Backup device that makes sense! 
dfy , i think a combination of '/q' and > nul
2> nul' will protect You from any possible output .... (/q can be ommited in the most cases)
J.
[This message has been edited by jpols (edited 29 August 2000).]
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