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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!smace 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> Lines: 31 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I think the binary is now out of date.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 -- smace@neosoft.com -- Neosoft sysadmin The answer to the meaning of the universe is 42.