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From: irick@ecn.purdue.edu (GarBear Irick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Connecting to stdin
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.174453.21310@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 17:44:53 GMT
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Organization: Purdue Society for Better Computing
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Ok, here goes, maybe SOMEONE can answer this question...

If someone else is logged in to my account, I can write to their screen via

% cat > dev/ttyXY

and the message appears (on their stdout, I assume??).  Is there any
way to direct it to stdIN, so that our UNIX box will think that the other
user actually typed it?  I would like to force the other user on my account
to execute a command this way...  trust me, there IS a good reason for this!
:)

just another UNIX hacker...


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