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From: TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM (Minh Tran-Le)
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Subject: Re: `tty`: Ambiguous. -- what does this mean?
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Date: 10 May 91 06:43:52 GMT
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| From: fido!jackr@fido.wpd.sgi.com (John "Jack" Repenning)
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| In article <9105070133.AA01943@life.ai.mit.edu> NDAVIS@INTELLICORP.COM (Nils Davis) writes:
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|    I get this "`tty`: Ambiguous" error now and then, ...
| 
|    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?
| 
| Those two together suggest that the problem is somewhere in your
| ~/.cshrc, perhaps a call to tty or stty.  But I don't recognize the
| "Ambiguous" message, so I don't know quite what the actual problem is.
| 

I have seen that strange message  "`tty`: Ambiguous" when you try to use
`rsh' on an hp machine.  The `rsh' is the restricted shell program and
not the remote shell.  The remote shell is `remsh'.

Minh Tran-Le.
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