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From: zben@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Redirection of standard input
Message-ID: <2646@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 16:37:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 16:37:26 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Sep-83 02:56:53 EDT
Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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 One presumes that the statement:

   cat file1 file2 - | hisprog

is insufficient because he wants to communicate with hisprog conversationally.
What he wants is the UNIVAC 1100 @ADD statement, which has been available on
that system since about 1964.  The setup would be:

   @XQT HISPROG
   @ADD FILE1
   @ADD FILE2
   <conversational input>

This must be the only case in which a dinosaur system is actually more
flexible than Un*x...
 Ben (A high priest finally strikes back) Cranston