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Re: URIs for the standard output and input streams

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:45:00 -0600
To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: uri@w3.org
Message-Id: <1200512700.6313.125.camel@pav> 

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 11:31 +0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
[...]
> 
> (Much software would already, non-conformantly, assign file:stdin to the 
> file named stdin in the current working directory)

How wide is the convention that /dev/stdin is stdin?
Wide enough for the IETF to reserve file:/dev/stdin for standard input?

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