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From: ebd@fang.ATT.COM (Elliot B Dierksen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: stty: : Not a typewriter
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.171653.1645@fang.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 91 17:16:53 GMT
References: <1495@das13.snide.com>
Organization: AT&T Tax Systems Development, Maitland FL
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From article <1495@das13.snide.com>, by dave@das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder):
> That's the error message I get while doing various things on my machine.
> 
> For example: when in vi, I like to read in the current date & time by typing
> "!!date".  What that does is fork a shell, run date and the output of date is
> read into the buffer (see example below).
> 
> Wed Mar  6 07:31:23 EST 1991
> 
> 
> Now for some strange reason, this is what I get when I type "!!date".
> 
> stty: : Not a typewriter
> Wed Mar  6 07:38:47 EST 1991
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

I have a solution that I got from Don Lashcomb (donlash@uncle.UUCP) because
it also happened with his enhanced cron.

In your .kshrc ($ENV)

case "$-" in
*i*)	stty splot ;;	# only runs stty when in interactive mode
esac

I already mailed that to Dave, but I thought it might be of interest to the
net in general.

Hope that helps,

EBD
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