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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c
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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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