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From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: expect problems
Date: 14 Aug 1994 14:05:43 -0400
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Terry Coatta (coatta@frood.nsg.bc.ca) wrote:
: I grabbed the FreeBSD ports version of expect and compiled it on my machine.
: It appears to work save for an annoying message that appears whenever a
: process is spawned:

:    frood.nsg.bc.ca: expect
:    expect1.1> spawn cat -u
:    spawn cat -u 
:    stty: stdout appears redirected, but stdin is the control descriptor: Undefined error: 0
:    9185

This has something to do with the BSD stty. To fix it, just grab a newer
version of expect.  I recently ran into this problem, and was able to
compile the latest release with very little trouble.  Thanks to the
author for pointing this out!

Jeff
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Jeff Aitken
jaitken@vt.edu