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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!news.ans.net!cmcl2!adm!claudius!cor5.pica.army.mil!birnbaum
  2. From: birnbaum@cor5.pica.army.mil (Richard C. Birnbaum (GC-ACCURATE) <birnbaum>)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: Re: Is stdin a pipe or a tty?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.135742.16526@pica.army.mil>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 13:57:42 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul24.234615.2457@cs.yale.edu>
  8. Sender: news@pica.army.mil (USENET Special Account <usenet>)
  9. Organization: U.S. Army Armament Research Dev. & Eng. Ctr, Dover NJ
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  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: cor5.pica.army.mil
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  13. Look up the function isatty - it tells you if the given file descriptor is
  14. coming from a terminal device.
  15.