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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 09:57:08 +0200
From: Joerg Wunsch <joerg>
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Synopsis: vi executes an external program and prints "stty: TIOCGETD: Operation not supported"

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: joerg
State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 6 09:54:57 MET DST 1995
State-Changed-Why: 
This is a no-bug (pilot error).  The call to stty does most likely
happen from a ~/.cshrc file where it's probably not protected by
an ``if($?prompt)'' block.

It's in no way vi's faul (and cannot be reproduced as such).