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From: rick@cadtec.UUCP (Rick Auricchio)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: shell character substitution
Message-ID: <55@cadtec.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 16:34:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 16:34:53 1985
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 In article <397@haddock.UUCP> mikeh@haddock.UUCP writes:
>	sh(1) has undocumented alternate pipe character, "^" (carrot,
>	ascii 0136).  I think this dates back to the days when people
>	used teletype 33's as ttys.  Still, lack of vertical bar will
>	frustate C programming.

The 33 *is* a tty, which is one reason people *used* them as ttys. :-)
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