[Coco] (Nitr)OS-9 and path numbers in MWC

[Jeff Teunissen]

Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> A question for the OS-9 guys. :) I'm modifying the Vu program to be able to
> use stdin as the input file (a la "less" in *nix), and I was wondering if I
> could do the following [pseudocode] like I would in *nix:
> 
> infile = dup (0);	/* stdin */
> close (0);		/* close stdin */
> ignored = dup (1);	/* fd 0 now a duplicate of 1 (stdout) */
> 
> and then read from the infile just like "Vu" while taking user input from the
> new fd 0.

update: yes, this works just fine, and perfectly for RBF redirects (i.e. OS9:
less - < file). Just need some code for checking whether stdin is a pipe, and
if so slurping it into a mktemp() file (checking for /R, /R0, /H0, and /DD in
that order and testing for a TEMP directory at each point) and trapping
interrupt to delete the temp file -- either that or hoping you don't run out
of memory reading it until you get EOF.

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