> From: jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer)
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:23:34 -0500 (EST)

> ok, so i'm building Cnews CR.G on NetBSD-1.1/sun3.
> 
> well, during the regression tests it uses /usr/bin/compress to do
> some stuff.
> 
> /usr/bin/compress is complaining that /dev/stdin doesn't exist.
[...]
> ah, so, what, or should, i set /dev/std{in,out,err} to?

You need to add this line to /etc/fstab:
fdesc   /dev    fdesc   rw,union