Tom Duff's rc shell has the same construct<p><pre><code>    xdvi &#60;{curl http://www.diku.dk/~andrzej/papers/RC.dvi}
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Another reason why you should have changed to rc shell 10 years ago<p><a href="http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc" rel="nofollow">http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc</a>