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From: alanw@microsoft.UUCP (Alan Whitney)
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Subject: Re: A question on input redirection
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Date: Sun, 18-Sep-83 16:35:00 EDT
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Contrary to other suggestions, what is probably needed is something
like:
		cat -u file - | prog

Here the -u causes the output of cat to be unbuffered so that there
is some chance of getting suitable prompts from `prog'.

			Alan Whitney
			{decvax,uw-beaver,fluke}!microsoft!alanw