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Subject: Re: All I want for Christmas ... 
Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 1992 09:36:54 -0500
From:	Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
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I could have sworn that ". /dev/tty" worked like that yesterday ...
someone must have hacked my system and patched the binaries over
night.

I guess you don't want to call isatty() every time one uses ".", but
I'm still not sure if this is "right."  What is so special about
start-up, that one doesn't need an explicit "-i" flag?  Why not check
stdin every time it gets redirected?

While I agree this last suggestion is of very limited use, and may
well be trivial, it is hardly "more" trivia -- unless you think the
error handling and the sh compatibility of your shell are trivial
issues.

Alan.