From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 08:04:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00802 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:04:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00792 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 08:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-166.laker.net [208.0.233.66]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id LAA04353; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:03:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199811021603.LAA04353@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Matt Behrens" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:02:30 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Weird messages from fmt called by vi Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:08:39 -0500 (EST), Matt Behrens wrote: >I get the following when I push !}fmt in vi: > >stty: stdin isn't a terminal >mesg: ttyname: Inappropriate ioctl for device > >Any ideas? It seemed to have worked before (maybe a recent make >world broke it?) I have the same thing happening on my -current (last cvsupped Oct 11). It does perform the format operation, it just adds the error message as well (I only get the stty message, not the mesg message). Hey, guess what. I had stty ^H in my .cshrc and that was causing it. I moved the stty command to .login HTH Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message