Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:19389 comp.unix.questions:17782
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question about GETOPT(3) (Really about using "-" for /dev/stdin)
Message-ID: <4127@phri.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 14:15:42 GMT
References: <2186@ektools.UUCP> <47040@bbn.COM> <17166@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Nov3.110330.27751@gdt.bath.ac.uk> <1989Nov7.000009.23547@virtech.uucp> <1989Nov15.183752.19153@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
Lines: 13

In <1989Nov15.183752.19153@gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee):
> Yeah, I know all about /dev/*, and don't have any trouble with the idea
> of /dev/stdin *existing*.  However, I *don't* want to have to type it.
> [...] there must be some one or two char string going spare.

	Why not just make a symbolic link from /- to /dev/stdin?  Then you
can have your two character string and the rest of us don't get our kernels
and/or standard libraries cluttered up with stuff we don't want.
-- 
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
{att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
"The connector is the network"