[Coco] (Nitr)OS-9 and path numbers in MWC

[Jeff Teunissen]

A question for the OS-9 guys. :) I'm modifying the Vu program to be able to
use stdin as the input file (a la "less" in *nix), and I was wondering if I
could do the following [pseudocode] like I would in *nix:

infile = dup (0);	/* stdin */
close (0);		/* close stdin */
ignored = dup (1);	/* fd 0 now a duplicate of 1 (stdout) */

and then read from the infile just like "Vu" while taking user input from the
new fd 0.

Obviously there'd be no ability to seek backwards on an SCF file, so some of
that code would have to be modified as well to use memory, or write the input
to a temp file on a RAM disk or /DD/TEMP or something.

Also, has anyone thought of using a per-user data module for mocking up an
environment space? Say, an 8K module named ENV<uid> that would be read from a
random or sequential file by the Shell (or LOGIN, on multi-user systems) to
hold shell variables like the PATH, Multi-Vue information, the user's "home"
directory, etc.

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