Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!Ram-Ashwin
From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Shell-mode trouble in GNUmacs
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Date: 18 May 88 19:26:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bard Bloom)

In article <8805151540.AA00920@TOUCAN.LCS.MIT.EDU>, bard@THEORY (Bard Bloom) writes:
> 
> I'm using GNU Emacs v18.38 on a microvax running a BSD 4.2 variant.
> Sometimes, but not always, when I start a subshell (M-x shell, say), it
> complains: 
>   Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...

Your pseudo-tty's may be screwed up (at least, that was the cause of similar
problems at our installation).  You might try using crpty(8) to create new ones.
Pseudo-tty's are documented in pty(4).

-- Ashwin.

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