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From: Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes?
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Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote:
>On VMS you would just open a Sequential_IO file for output saying the
>name is SYS$OUTPUT.  Isn't the same thing available on other operating
>systmes ?

On many modern unix-like systems, you can use something like
  /dev/stdout
or
  /dev/fd/1
or
  /proc/self/fd/1
. But it's not as portable as it might be.

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