> > 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

i did a reboot -a, rm /dev/std* and restarted with the above fstab entry.

now i get:
tuatara# compress < gated_dump > gated.dump.Z
overwrite /dev/stdout? tuatara# 

hmmm.

it was working when i did the mknod stuff.

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