--- /dev/null
+\ Introduce a dummy console that will eat away all chars and make all
+\ the components dependent on stdout happy.
+
+new-device
+" devnull-console" device-name
+
+: open true ;
+: close ;
+
+: write ( adr len -- actual )
+ nip
+;
+
+: read ( adr len -- actual )
+ nip
+;
+
+: setup-alias
+ " devnull-console" find-alias 0= IF
+ " devnull-console" get-node node>path set-alias
+ ELSE
+ drop
+ THEN
+;
+
+: dummy-term-emit drop ;
+: dummy-term-key 0 ;
+: dummy-term-key? FALSE ;
+
+' dummy-term-emit to emit
+' dummy-term-key to key
+' dummy-term-key? to key?
+
+setup-alias
+finish-device