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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
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Subject: Re: Question about GETOPT(3) (Really about using "-" for /dev/stdin)
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.155156.26460@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Nov 89 15:51:56 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> <4127@phri.UUCP>
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In article <4127@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	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.

Well, probably because on most of the Unixes I use, I don't get to put
things into /.  On the other hand, suppose I could always put it at
~/-.  Or make myself a single character setenv var...

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