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From: moldev!geo@uunet.uu.net (George Pontis)
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Subject: Reply to query on /dev/tty weirdness
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Date: 8 Mar 89 16:05:23 GMT
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In article <169@mdcb.UUCP> you write:
>How come any attempt to open /dev/tty ( as O_RDWR ) fails with the error
>"No such device or address"...

This happens while running from a shell. cat ... > /dev/tty gives the same
error.

In fact, I get this error when trying to run dbx via a terminal and now
suspect that it must be related. Note: /dev/tty exists, is owned by root,
and has mode rw for all.