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From: smace@NeoSoft.com (Scott Mace)
Subject: Re: tcsh woes
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services -- +1 713 684 5969
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 05:34:08 GMT
Message-ID: <CIzM4y.EMM@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <CInzDq.54@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <CIqB8s.1s6@deanstoy.wa.com>
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In article <CIqB8s.1s6@deanstoy.wa.com> dean@deanstoy.wa.com (Dean M. Phillips) writes:
>In article <CInzDq.54@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
>pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am having some trouble with tcsh.  I copied the binaries down from
>>freebsd.cdrom.com.  The seem to run fine, except that when I run tcsh
>>I get the message:
>>
>>Warning: no access to tty (Operation not supported by device).
>>Thus no job control in this shell.

I did the ports for freebsd and this problem has been fixed a few months ago.
please get the latest soources or the latest binary package of freebsd.cdrom.com

>> ...
>
>I think the binary is now out of date.  I ported tcsh to 386BSD long ago.
>When I updated to FreeBSD, I compiled the same modified source that I used for
>386BSD and had the identical symptoms.  It seems that support for the now
>obsolete raw line discipline has been removed.  When tcsh tries to set it and
>the tty driver says no, tcsh thinks it can't have job control.  I conditioned
>out the offending ioctl, the other things it did were sufficient.
>
>-- 
>Dean M. Phillips    Microsoft free and proud of it!    dean@deanstoy.wa.com


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