Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cithep.UucP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!cithep!tim From: tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: With respect to "pr" Message-ID: <88@cithep.UucP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 02:30:28 EDT Article-I.D.: cithep.88 Posted: Thu Jul 4 02:30:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:36:37 EDT References: <595@umd5.UUCP> <322@umcp-cs.UUCP> <2091@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, <424@mtxinu.UUCP> Organization: Caltech HEP, Pasadena, CA Lines: 17 Summary of original article: pr does not accept '-' in place of a file name to mean use stdin. The posters local guru said it is not reasonable to change pr. The poster wants to know if other gurus think the same way. Summary of responses: If he was on V8 he could use /dev/stdin. Attempt to answer original question: Your local guru should either let you make the change to pr, or he should let you put /dev/stdin in your kernel. Try to talk him into the later. He will probably refuse, and after a bit of arguing, you can probably compromise on the former! :-) -- Q: what did the programmer who turned down a job at Bell say? A: I could have had a V8 Tim Smith ihnp4!{wlbr!callan,cithep}!tim