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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 1996 10:17:10 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        ajones@ctron.com (Alexander Seth Jones)
Cc:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X help
Message-ID:  <199602240917.KAA08696@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9602232338.AA15829@thoth> from "Alexander Seth Jones" at Feb 23, 96 06:38:28 pm

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As Alexander Seth Jones wrote:

>     When I try to
> bring up an xterm I get the following error message:
> 
> xterm: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Have a close look at your ~/.cshrc, ~/.login, or ~/.profile (depending
on the shell you're using).  They contain some sort of an ioctl or
something like this that's apparently not available on a pseudo-
terminal.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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