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From: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Failure of iswind()
Message-ID: <681@iczer-1.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 91 01:43:34 GMT
References: <1991May24.203238.7990@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> <1509@das13.snide.com> <1991May26.045739.16248@ims.alaska.edu>
Reply-To: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski)
Organization: The Kurowulf Empire
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In article <1991May24.203238.7990@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>, jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
| Just for fun, I tried the following command from my VAX to my
| ethernet'ted 3b1:
| 
| % rsh notvax /usr/games/klondike
| 
| Now, considering the fact that I'm not logged in on the console, this
| should fail.
| 
| Any idea why all these games (klondike/mahjongg/rocks/bugs) all have
| this behavior?  Is it only seen when using the ethernet package?

This seems to be a problem an all of the ports.

The solution I have used for this problem is to make shure that the
major number of the control tty and /dev/window match, this seems 
to work well.

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