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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TIOCGETD Operation not supported
Date: 8 Aug 1995 13:06:59 +0200
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Jin Mazumdar <mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu> wrote:
> Could someone please tell me the scoop on the above message.
>I am running one of the SNAP's of 2.0. The above message seems to
>be benign in most applications but plays havoc with remote restores.
>Is there an easy fix because I am not ready to upgrade to 2.1 yet?
You are trying to execute an stty command on a non-terminal stream.
You are advised to protect stty commands in your ~/.cshrc and ~/.login
by
if($?prompt) then
stty foo bar
...
endif
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)