Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: With respect to "pr" Message-ID: <424@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 20:33:04 EDT Article-I.D.: mtxinu.424 Posted: Wed Jun 26 20:33:04 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:40:34 EDT References: <595@umd5.UUCP> <322@umcp-cs.UUCP> <2091@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 20 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. As I remember, /dev/stdin is a link to /dev/fd0 in the Eighth Edition. Certainly, they should both exist. >Couldn't this be done in other Unixes by using /dev/tty >explicitly? Only if stdin to the process in question is the terminal. Often, it's a pipe or some other such thing. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality."