From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20371 invoked from network); 26 Mar 1997 17:56:10 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Mar 1997 17:56:10 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA17785; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:44:06 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:43:17 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <11673.199703261745@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 3.0.3-test3 and typewriters To: gene@Bear.COM (Gene Cohler) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:45:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199703261531.KAA22349@coral.bear.com> from "Gene Cohler" at Mar 26, 97 10:31:21 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]9083.69 X-Phase: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (94% of Full) X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers X-Personality: INTJ X-This-is-not-HTML: Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"LtPMb3.0.ZI4.q0MEp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/769 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Gene Cohler wrote: >% stty: : Not a typewriter That's ENOTTY, which some systems describe better as "inappropriate ioctl for device". (I once wrote a program that would fail with this error if its output was actually a tty, with the amusing effect that on some systems it says "Not a typewriter" if and only if it *is* a typewriter.) >Anyone know how I can not have this ? Make sure standard input and output are connected to a tty? -zefram