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From: NDAVIS@INTELLICORP.COM (Nils Davis)
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Subject: `tty`: Ambiguous. -- what does this mean?
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I get this "`tty`: Ambiguous" error now and then, like when I try to use
Kyle Jones' crypt.el to read in compressed files. What does this mean, and
how can I stop it? I'm using Emacs both in its own X window, and under
SunTools with the emacstool program -- I get the same error with each. The 
error has also shown up with other shell-related things, like 
"shell-command-on-region" and whatnot, which makes me think the spawned shells
are having trouble. My default shell is csh, and my shell-file-name variable
is set to /bin/csh. 

Late-breaking news:

As I wrote this, I tried an experiment, and set shell-file-name to
/bin/sh. Now things work. Is this just a normal brokenness of csh, or
is there something else I can do to make it work with csh?

Thanks for any info,

Nils Davis
ndavis@intellicorp.com


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