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From: leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Odd vi behaviour inside a shell script.
Keywords: vi, sh, stderr, shell scripts
Message-ID: <714@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 9 May 90 19:07:36 GMT
References: <1284@telsys.aut.UUCP> <438@ncrstp.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <438@ncrstp.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@ncrstp.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
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|Vi uses stderr on the ioctl call that sets it up for raw data
|handling.  If stderr is redirected,  the terminal will not be in the 
|correct state,  and all the full screen algorithms will be off.  I
|know of no way around this.

I seriously doubt that this is always the case. A simple test, doing

$ vi 2>/dev/null /etc/termcap

on a Pyramid (ucb universe) showed no apparent problems. Can you
elaborate on what should go wrong?

    Leo.