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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
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/ 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