stdout (was What "isatty"?)

Roy Smith roy at phri.UUCP
Fri Jun 2 11:10:31 AEST 1989


In article <1954 at plx.UUCP> evan at 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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