From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 22:41:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from groggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net (groggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [198.70.228.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA5737BAFC for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: (from abc@localhost) by groggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA34416 for "freebsd-questions" ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:41:38 GMT (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:41:38 GMT From: groggy@iname.com Message-Id: <200007200541.FAA34416@groggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net> X-Authentication-Warning: groggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net: abc set sender to groggy@iname.com using -f Subject: sh: can't access tty; X-Mailer: Umail v1.2 (FreeBSD) To: "freebsd-questions" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG when ever i open a shell in another program in a virtual terminal (ytalk, joe editor) i get the message "sh: can't access tty". and all the terminal characteristics are messed up - especially in an editor. is there anything i can do in such a shell to keep some kind of usable terminal emulation that would work good when using an editor? (ie - no garbled characters, messed up columns, etc when scrolling - same functionality for DEL, BS, PgUp, PgDn, etc). please reply off the list as well ... thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message