Novice question

[George Robbins]

In article <2100 at cernvax.UUCP> peterb at cernvax.UUCP (peter beckmann) writes:
>
> Now i have a question: if the user generates input from a file or a pipe
> ,e.g. Prog < some.stuff, is there a way to figure out if the
> input is coming NOT from the terminal. (i want to disable the
> prompting in this case).

type "man 3 isatty"...

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