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Old October 20th 18, 06:55 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Frank Slootweg
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Default Why isn't closing a program or game instantaneous?

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Frank Slootweg wrote:
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:14:01 +0100, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
[...]
I've not seen one single answer that explains why it takes time to
stop doing something.

s/seen/understood/

I only understand English punctuation.


s/only/don't/
s/English punctuation/anything


information | JSW /dev/null

Sorry, couldn't resist.


Don't be silly, there's absolutely no need to redirect and waste a
precious resource like /dev/null!

Proof:

$ information | JSW | wc -l
0
$
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