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From: gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (Gary Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: /dev/tty equivalent?
Message-ID: <619@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 88 15:15:24 GMT
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Reply-To: gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (Gary Levin)
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Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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Keywords: /dev/tty, stdin, system

Two questions:
(1) Under Unix, /dev/tty is always the terminal, regardless of
    redirection (unlike stdin).  Under MS-DOS, `con' is the equivalent
    of /dev/tty.  Is there an equivalent *file name* (not a FILE*)
    under LSC?

(2) Asked earlier, but with no responses.

    Is there an equivalent to `system' under LSC?  Nothing is listed
    in the LSC manual.  Essentially, I need to be able to suspend the
    current processes, open an application, and when the application
    completes, return to my application.  

    This is mainly to get to an editor, although I could imagine other
    uses.  With the editor in mind, is there a PD editor that can be
    installed as a DA?  This would solve my immediate problem.

Thanks, Gary Levin (gary@clutx.clarkson.edu, gary@clutx.bitnet)