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From: faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: With respect to "pr"
Message-ID: <2091@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 12:20:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2091
Posted: Fri Jun 21 12:20:28 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 03:50:15 EDT
References: <595@umd5.UUCP> <322@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
Lines: 18
Summary: 

In article <322@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>Perhaps a better solution is our (well Fred's but...) ``file descriptor''
>driver (similar to /dev/stdin in Eighth Edition Unix).  Just have your
>program read /dev/fd0; no special casing required.

Couldn't this be done in other Unixes by using /dev/tty
explicitly?

Daniel
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