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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: edit first line of long file
Message-ID: <14236@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 90 20:33:32 GMT
References: <4597:Oct2321:44:2190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <10201:Oct2404:23:3890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <27144@mimsy.umd.edu>
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In article <27144@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>At least one POSIX draft has attempted to mandate that stdio should
>`reset' the input seek pointer so that (head -1; cat)<foo would produce
>an exact copy of file foo.

Sounds to me like it's time to disband the POSIX working groups,
if they can't think any better than that.