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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!sarto!jhpb
  3. From: jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us (Joseph H. Buehler)
  4. Subject: /dev/fd and ksh under SVR4?
  5. Message-ID: <JHPB.92Jul21183240@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us>
  6. Sender: jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us (Joseph H Buehler)
  7. Organization: none
  8. Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:32:39 GMT
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  11. Does anyone know why /dev/fd is referenced in the SVR4 ksh binary?  I
  12. am wondering if this ksh supports something like
  13.  
  14.     diff $(<cat /etc/passwd) $(<cat /etc/passwd)
  15.  
  16. but it's just not documented?
  17.