From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10108211653.AA15145@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: Fseek on STDIN problem on Win 2K
To:	acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au (Andrew Cottrell)
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:53:15 -0500 (CDT)
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Guess what?  _get_dev_info(0) == 0 on *ANY* redirected input on Windows NT 4.0
unless it is from CON.  So these weird handles appear on NT 4.0 also.

This is also true for a real pipe on NT - it does not need to go to a 
temporary file.  You can't seek on pipes - but it appears these strange
handles support some limitied seeking in a strange way.

For example, I can do dir | test and see the same strange behavior, but
no file is created on disk.

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