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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement and /dev/stdin
Message-ID: <7974@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 22:12:48 GMT
References: <136@rubmez.UUCP> <449@happym.UUCP> <7944@alice.UUCP> <8022@brl-smoke.ARPA> <11821@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <11821@mimsy.UUCP> by chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
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| In article <8022@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
| >By the way, I hope the new grep when asked to always produce
| >the filename will use "-" for stdin's name, and the context
| >tool would also follow the same convention.  Even though the
| >Research systems have /dev/stdin, other sites may not,
| 
| Why not?  We (chris@mimsy.umd.edu and fred@mimsy.umd.edu) have posted
| an implementation at least twice.  (Still could not get Berkeley to
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Sigh.  Not all sites on the Usenet are 4.xBSD source sites, much less all
Unix sites.  Ncoast is System III, telo1000 is System V.3.1.  Neither will
run your BSD version, and while ncoast can have device drivers added it's a
pain in the butt to do.  And some sites may not have a means of adding
device drivers at all.
-- 
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