Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!zben 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 Lines: 13 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... -- Ben Cranston ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben zben@umd2.ARPA