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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: With respect to "pr"
Message-ID: <1906@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 07:10:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 07:10:49 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 04:39:40 EDT
References: <595@umd5.UUCP> <322@umcp-cs.UUCP> <2091@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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In article <2091@sdcrdcf.UUCP> faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin) writes:
>In article <322@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>Perhaps a better solution is our (well Fred's but...) ``file descriptor''
>>driver (similar to /dev/stdin in Eighth Edition Unix).  Just have your
>>program read /dev/fd0; no special casing required.
>
>Couldn't this be done in other Unixes by using /dev/tty
>explicitly?
>

Sheesh!  I thought this was net.unix-wizards!


Daniel, I sentence thee to 500 readings of "UNIX for Beginners -- Second Edition"
It's written by Brian Kernighan, and you *ought* to be able to find
it stored in /usr/doc or /usr/docs.  Failing that, look in Volume 2B
of the Programmers manual (It's right in the front)

		:-)

How often is stdin *not* /dev/tty?
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