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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Message-Id: <199605170032.RAA13209@bubba.whistle.com>
Subject: Re: xterm error
To: dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (Doug White)
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:32:23 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199605170027.RAA28614@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at May 16, 96 05:27:49 pm
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> > All of a sudden, now when I try to run 'xterm', it fails with (something
> > like) this message:
> > 
> >   xterm: Error 23 errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> Did  you knock out "options COMPAT_43" from your kernel config?
> 
> If so try putting it back.  Xterm is a throwback.  :-)

Thanks, that fixed it.

-Archie

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