Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: normal

Hi

the /bin/dd program does not seem to like reading from /dev/stdin or
outputing to /dev/stdout.  Is this intended?  It works in Solaris 
and BSD.  I know leaving it out will default to stdin and stdout but
I should also be able to specify it specifically.

On Sid:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ^at^cat
cat /bin/echo | dd if=/dev/stdin bs=1 count=1234
dd: opening `/dev/stdin': No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 



        - g.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                     2.2.26-1     Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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