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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Parthenogenesis and Computer Science (Re: who needs cat?)
Message-ID: <4690@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 89 19:10:03 GMT
References: <21251@adm.BRL.MIL> <4282@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> <1958@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <20408@mimsy.umd.edu> <3839@solo9.cs.vu.nl>
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In article <3839@solo9.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>
>Nowadays this behavior is mimicked somewhat by:
>
>	% ln -s /dev/tty c.c
>	% cc c.c
>	main(){printf("Hello, UNIX\n");}
>	^D
>	% a.out

% ln -s /dev/tty cc
% cc cc
<mystic miracles>
% mail -s "Let There Be C" boss

				--Blair
				  "Sort of a self-bootstrapped
				   language definition."