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From: dws@margay.cs.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: ap
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.145104.24184@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 14:51:04 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.173907.28331@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <6354@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <6354@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>Allow a file name (anywhere at all) to have the form
>	/dev/fd#
>where # is an integer with however many digits it needs.  Some research
>versions of UNIX already support this directly.

And SVR4.0.  I do NOT think you mean /dev/fdN, but rather /dev/fd/N.
This is how it is in Research UNIX and SVR4.  Also, systems that
support /dev/fd typically have synonyms for the standard file
descriptors:

	/dev/stdin	== /dev/fd/0
	/dev/stdout	== /dev/fd/1
	/dev/stderr	== /dev/fd/2
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