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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] \n\n\n to \n\n 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:09:09 GMT."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Mon,  3 Mar 2003 09:25:19 -0500
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> 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.