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From: simon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ECSC68 S Brown CS)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac
Message-ID: <52@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 11:49:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 21 11:49:39 1986
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Reply-To: simon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Simon Brown)
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In article <3617@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>>	I use "cat | cc -O " myself.
>On what UNIXs does this work?   Most cc's that I have seen will not
>take stdin.  To get the desired results, I have always had to do this:
>
>	ln /dev/tty /dev/tty.c
>	cc -O /dev/tty.c                # damn thing wants a ".c" file!
>

Or even better with symbolic links!

Or perhaps, if you've got System V, you could use named pipes? :-)
	/etc/mknod fifo.c p
	cc -O fifo.c &
	cat > fifo.c


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	Simon Brown, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh.
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