With respect to "pr"

Daniel Faigin faigin at sdcrdcf.UUCP
Sat Jun 22 02:20:28 AEST 1985


In article <322 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>Perhaps a better solution is our (well Fred's but...) ``file descriptor''
>driver (similar to /dev/stdin in Eighth Edition Unix).  Just have your
>program read /dev/fd0; no special casing required.

Couldn't this be done in other Unixes by using /dev/tty
explicitly?

Daniel
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