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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: shell file descriptor programming (was: Unlinked temp files)
Message-ID: <6428@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 May 89 13:53:22 GMT
References: <871@marvin.Solbourne.COM> <1015@philmds.UUCP> <10944@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <1015@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>The shell has no means to rewind that I know of;

For tapes the following works:

	$ < tape_device_pathname

Just type it and and watch the tape rewind!  It might even work for files,
but I never used it that way.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbnews!lvc or lvc@cbnews.att.com
"Life is not a seminar." -- Thomas Sowell