Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!oddjob!kaon!nucsrl!gore From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: wasting VM: the Sun philosophy (was Re: grep replacement) Message-ID: <11410004@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: 26 Jun 88 20:09:08 GMT References: <1988Jun19.010324.14423@utstat.uucp> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 16 / comp.unix.wizards / mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) / Jun 26, 1988 / In article <8167@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >... the /dev/stdin point was first brought up as follows: > >> 22) support a filename of - to mean standard input. >> a unix without /dev/stdin is largely bogus but as a sop to the poor >> barstards having to work on BSD, gre will support - >> as stdin (at least for a while). Well, if it's going to support "-" anyway: ln -s - /dev/stdin :-) Jacob