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From: dwn@swbatl.sbc.com (David Neill-OKCy Mktg 405-278-4007)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: stty: : Not a typewriter
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.133424.5603@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 13:34:24 GMT
References: <1495@das13.snide.com> <1991Mar12.171653.1645@fang.ATT.COM>
Organization: Southwestern Bell Advanced Technology Laboratory
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In article <1991Mar12.171653.1645@fang.ATT.COM> ebd@fang.ATT.COM (Elliot B Dierksen) writes:
>
>I have a solution that I got from Don Lashcomb (donlash@uncle.UUCP) because
>it also happened with his enhanced cron.
>
>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.
>

A quick, dumb question that probably belongs in comp.unix.shell, where does
the interactive (-i) flag get set?  Does ksh set the flag after verifying
whether or not it is interactive, or could this flag be mistakenly invoked
from a script?


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