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From: jackr@dblues.wpd.sgi.com (Jack Repenning)
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Subject: Re: `tty`: Ambiguous. -- what does this mean?
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Date: 10 May 91 16:19:56 GMT
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Recently, Minh Tran-Le wrote:

	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'.

But I assume you never figured out what was causing it?

An interesting aspect of this comment is that rsh is a restricted form
of the Bourne shell, or of the Korn shell if you have that installed:
these shells don't necessarily read any set-up files, whereas csh
always reads ~/.cshrc, and so a "tty: Ambiguous" message from them is
less likely to be related to set-up files.

Hmmmmmm....



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