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From: olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah)
Subject: tcsh cannot access `tty'
Message-ID: <1994Feb24.143244@cs.utwente.nl>
Keywords: tcsh, tty, FreeBSD
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Organization: Univ. of Twente, Dept. of Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:32:44 GMT
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Hi,

I've installed FreeBSD 1.0.2 on my PC last weekend, but when I start tcsh
as my shell, I get the following message:

	tcsh cannot access tty
	thus no job control in this shell

Apart from job control, I cannot use line editing, filename expansion, etc.
My setting is the default as FreeBSD comes `out of the box.' The only
change I made was in /etc/ttys so that getty uses the vga device to log in
(as suggested by the X installation package), and I installed tcsh from a
binary package for FreeBSD.  In my .cshrc I use the same settings which
work perfectly on SunOS 4.1 at work.

I hope it's not a very stupid question, but I couldn't find anything in the
FAQ, nor in the man pages.  Any help is greatly appreciated!

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  Andras Olah                    	olah@cs.utwente.nl