Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac

[ECSC68 S Brown CS]

In article <3617 at ism780c.UUCP> tim at ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>>	I use "cat | cc -O " myself.
>On what UNIXs does this work?   Most cc's that I have seen will not
>take stdin.  To get the desired results, I have always had to do this:
>
>	ln /dev/tty /dev/tty.c
>	cc -O /dev/tty.c                # damn thing wants a ".c" file!
>

Or even better with symbolic links!

Or perhaps, if you've got System V, you could use named pipes? :-)
	/etc/mknod fifo.c p
	cc -O fifo.c &
	cat > fifo.c


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