/dev/fd device driver to be posted

[John R. MacMillan]

In article <MFNA0001 at kenobi.commodore.com> ford at kenobi.UUCP writes:
|This is primarily useful when running a poorly-written program that
|has no provision for using stdin/stdout.

It's also useful for supporting a feature in KSH88 (and the PD ksh I
use as soon as I get around to it :-)).  I don't have the book handy
but the syntax is something like:

paste (cut -f2 foo) (cut -f1,3 bar) > foobar

And this isn't one of those poorly-written ones, either; you couldn't
do the above with simple linear pipelines.

As an aside on a somewhat religious matter, I've always felt the
convention that "-" means standard input is somewhat gory;
/dev/stdin eliminates the need for this.
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