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From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
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Subject: Mergemaster editor problem
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I finally taught myself how to use sdiff, so I don't have to manually 
merge config files when updating to the latest sources.

But when I tried to use it from Mergemaster to do the following 
function:

    "e b:    edit then use the left and right versions concatenated"


I get:

    "%ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output must be a terminal
    sdiff: Subsidiary editor failed"


This is on the console, running in single-user and syscons is set to 
132x43 text mode.  /usr is mounted.  vi works fine by itself.  
Mergemaster was invoked thusly:

    mergemaster -v -C -w 132 2>&1 |tee -a <logfile>



TIA,

Phil



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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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