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From: donlash@uncle.uucp (Donald Lashomb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: bang problems in vi
Message-ID: <1990Jul21.024056.22798@uncle.uucp>
Date: 21 Jul 90 02:40:56 GMT
References: <37112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: donlash@uncle.UUCP (Donald Lashomb)
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In article <37112@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes:
=Whenever I do a bang substitution within vi (eg, !!ls)
=on my 3b1, I get the appropriate substitution, with the following error
=message prepended to the text:
=
=stty: : Not a typewriter
=
=What's going on & how do I get rid of it?
=
=I hesitate to ask such a trivial question on the net, but
=this has been going on for three years now, and I'm tired of it.
=Thanks.
=--
=Paul Kirkaas
=kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu


Are you using ksh?  If so, try looking in your
ENV file ($HOME/.kshrc usually) for a stty command.
Try moving the offending stty command to .profile

hope this helps,
-Don		donlash@uncle.UUCP