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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>
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> 	Does anyone know why I would be getting the above error messages 
> from zsh. 

Zsh doesn't care what SHTTY is in the environment of.  How about this?
Unfortunately I have a vague memory there are recalcitrant shtty's
which don't operate on stdin, but this should catch most problems.

*** Src/exec.c~	Mon Nov 25 09:16:25 1996
--- Src/exec.c	Mon Nov 25 17:54:55 1996
***************
*** 255,261 ****
      /* If the parameter STTY is set in the command's environment, *
       * we first run the stty command with the value of this       *
       * parameter as it arguments.                                 */
!     if (!exargs && (s = zgetenv("STTY"))) {
  	char *t;
  
  	exargs = args;	/* this prevents infinite recursion */
--- 255,261 ----
      /* If the parameter STTY is set in the command's environment, *
       * we first run the stty command with the value of this       *
       * parameter as it arguments.                                 */
!     if (!exargs && (s = zgetenv("STTY")) && isatty(0)) {
  	char *t;
  
  	exargs = args;	/* this prevents infinite recursion */

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