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From: "Steve Simon" <steve.simon@snellwilcox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hget
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:19:44 +0100
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> > > so /dev/null actually gives you information?
> > 
> > of course.
> 
> i see you're not much of a fan of Shannon:
> 
>     http://www.lucent.com/minds/infotheory/who.html

But it _does_ give you information.

The quantity of information is equal to log() of the
improbability of that information arriving.

Thus you expected to read a file you got EOF, you get information,
"this file is zero length".

-Steve