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From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: /dev/tty troubles w/telnet on Ultrix
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 09:18:29 -0400
Organization: Junior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Hi,

I'm currently working with the telnet that was distributed with the
original 4.4 bsd. I'm aware there's a newer version available, however,
it appears not to work under Ultrix at all, and I don't have time to
debug it. At some point in the code, and only under Ultrix, but not
SunOS or HP-UX, /dev/tty is apparently becoming disassociated with the
process group, and hence after logging in using this telnet people
cannot use /dev/tty (so programs like resize just don't work). I'm led
to believe this is something Ultrix specific, something Ultrix handles
differently then other BSD-based OS's. Has anybody heard of anything
like this before? Oh, BTW, it's Ultrix 4.2, and I have no control over
the OS being upgraded.

Many thanks,

-D