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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: writing to stdin
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Date: 6 May 91 22:38:23 GMT
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From the keyboard of dga@cs.brown.edu (Daniel Gerardo Aliaga):
:Is there any way for a process to write a string to its stdin, such that it 
:can later be read again ?
:
:For example, the following code does the job on SunOS:

[BSD TIOCSTI example deleted].

You're not stuffing to stdin -- you're doing it to the tty.
Not the same thing, you know.

I don't think you can do what you want to do generically.

--tom
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