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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] \n\n\n to \n\n
Date: Mon,  3 Mar 2003 09:25:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303031425.h23EPJM22744@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:09:09 GMT." <3E5FE8D6.1080206@null.net>

> No, sam -d gets its commands from stdin, but you
> ought to be able to open from one stream and write
> to another, e.g. on Research Unix one could
> shuffle file descriptors in the Bourne shell (exec
> sometimes helped) and sam could read /dev/fd/4 and
> write /dev/fd/5 for example).  A different form of
> plumbing.

Hmm, sounds a lot like /fd/*.  rc(1) lets you shuttle file
descriptors around rather easily.

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-03 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-28 18:48 Joel Salomon
2003-03-03 10:09 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-03-03 14:25   ` Dan Cross [this message]
     [not found] <1900322893@snellwilcox.com>
2003-03-03 11:14 ` Steve Simon
2003-03-04 10:26   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-28 12:42 peter a. cejchan
2003-02-28 18:11 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-03 10:08 ` Ralph Corderoy

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