With respect to "pr"

[zben at umd5.UUCP]

In article <2091 at sdcrdcf.UUCP> faigin at sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin) writes:
>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?

No, in the original example standard input was redirected from a file...

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