Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!david 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 Article-I.D.: ukma.1906 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 Lines: 30 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? -- --- David Herron --- ARPA-> ukma!david@ANL-MCS.ARPA or ukma!david<@ANL-MCS> --- or david%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa --- Or even anlams!ukma!david@ucbvax.arpa --- UUCP-> {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!david --- {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!cbosgd!ukma!david "It's *Super*User* to the rescue!"