Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stdout (was What "isatty"?)
Summary: cc as a filter
Message-ID: <3791@phri.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 01:10:31 GMT
References: <19756@adm.BRL.MIL> <17796@mimsy.UUCP> <1954@plx.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <1954@plx.UUCP> evan@plx.UUCP (Evan Bigall) writes:
> And to complete the circle, I would kill for a C compiler that would read
> from standard input so I could do:

	I remember somebody (Henry Maslin?) used to link /dev/tty.c to
/dev/tty so he could do "% cc /dev/tty.c" and type in a c program on the
keyboard.  Yowza!  If you had /dev/stdin, you could easily play the same
trick, linking /dev/stdin.c to /dev/stdin.
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