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Subject: Re: rcp: stty: : Invalid argument.
To: geoid@ktnet.co.kr
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:21:46 +0100 (WET)
From: "Alain FAUCONNET" <af@biomath.jussieu.fr>
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[original question deleted, I have wasted enough net b/w for today :-( ]

I wrote:

>Seems to me that you have a stty command in your .cshrc (or .login ?) that
>gets confused because the process created by the rcp command from the
>remote machine does not have a tty as stdin.
>
>In my .cshrc file, I always bracket commands that are typically only used in
>a really interactive context by:
>
>if (?$prompt)

Shame, shame. It's 

if ($?prompt)

of course.

Sorry.

>then
>#	Commands like stty, tset, set prompt=...
>endif

_Alain_
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