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From: jetfuel@babbage.csus.edu (Dave Jenks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Concatenation of stdin and a file??
Keywords: cat stdin
Message-ID: <1991May7.054639.5076@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 05:46:39 GMT
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In article <1991May6.160308.19911@uts.uni-c.dk> neulynne@uts.uni-c.dk (Mogens Lynnerup) writes:
>What he would like to do is to concatenate stdin and some file so he can do
>something like:
>			telnet <some-node> < <some-file>
>
>and when the file is exhausted telnet should continue accepting input from the
>keyboard and NOT exit due to an EOF-condition from the file.

How about:

    cat some-file /dev/tty | telnet

I did something like this, only /dev/tty was first, because I needed
to manually prime a complex piece of software.  "It worked for me."

--Dave
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