>>You might want to write to a file called NUL in order to avoid having to create it and delete it, and to avoid any disk access.
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>I've always used report form filename noconsole, but I don't recall anyone mentionning this solution. Is there a reason I should know about?

Well, I thought I mentioned the reasons, but here they are again: You don't have to create then delete a temporary file; and you don't have to actually write to disk, which will make the computation faster.