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Date:      Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:50:20 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        green@unixhelp.org, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c
Message-ID:  <199907030350.NAA01426@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>We have /dev/std{in,out,err}. We also have /dev/fd/. Just how many solutions
>to a problem do we need before we can consider it solved?!

I agree :-).

>Remember, the question was, "Do we need to spend the effort making all
>of our programs support the use of - to denote std{in,out}?"

Not all, only the following (fairly large) subset:
- ones which historically supported '-'
- ones which should be portable to systems that don't support /dev/stdin.

Bruce


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