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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 12:25:52 -0700 (MST)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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Subject: Re: Stupid vi question
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You are running stty in your .cshrc, .bashrc, or whatever startup file
your shell is reading from.  You should only have it do that for
interactive shells otherwise you get warnings like the below.

On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> So...here's something that's annoyed me for a long time, and now someone
> else has asked me the same question.
> 
> When you're in vi...if you want to wrap a paragraph of text, you might use
> a command like:
> 
> 	!}fmt
> 
> Now, on every machine other than mine, this works.  On my FreeBSD box, I
> get:
> 	stty: stdin isn't a terminal
> 
> (Though the wrap works fine and there are no other problems.)
> 
> What's going on here?  How do I fix this?
> 
> Clueless,
> 
> Brian
> 
>