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Old 11-02-2001
Question redirection to tty** with cat

I tried to cat a file to another user that was logged in, but I received an error message that displayed something like:

%cat funny > /dev/ttyp3
zsh: permission denied: /dev/ttyp3

Thank you all for your help
 

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