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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ttyname() - question
Message-ID: <1107@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 00:31:21 GMT
References: <99@lkbpyr.UUCP> <1088@virtech.UUCP> <14481@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1989Aug31.165349.13125@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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In article <1989Aug31.165349.13125@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
> 
> Posting etiquette:
> When I saw Karl's posting about /dev/tty, I was surprised and I thought it was
> wrong.  But I didn't just bang on my followup key.  I pressed ^Z and typed
> "ttyname </dev/tty".  Much to my surprise I got the output "/dev/tty".  It's
> quite simple to check before posting.  Remember that when you post hasty
> replies you are wasting many people's time, especially by the volume of
> followups to your followup which are generated.


You are absolutely correct and I apologize for the inaccurate response.  I just
"KNEW" it had to be that way.  So much for knowing without checking.




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