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From: zben@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: With respect to "pr"
Message-ID: <615@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 22:03:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.615
Posted: Mon Jun 24 22:03:49 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:06:09 EDT
References: <595@umd5.UUCP> <322@umcp-cs.UUCP> <2091@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
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Summary: No, using /dev/tty is not sufficient...

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?

No, in the original example standard input was redirected from a file...

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Ben Cranston  ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben  zben@umd2.ARPA