SUMMERY: vi gets "stty: No such device or address"

From: Craig Mason (cmason@diasonics.com)
Date: Thu Jan 09 1997 - 13:47:11 CST

>From the replies I got it looks like I was the only one that didn't know
the answer to my own question. :-) Thanks to all that replied. Here is
the question then the answer.

> One of my users asked me why this happens and I can't seem to find
> the answer.
>
> When I vi test and do the command !!date it says
>
> stty: : No such device or address
> stty: : No such device or address
> Wed Jan 8 16:51:53 PST 1997

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The user had stty commands outside of an if statement in his .cshrc,
example:

# @(#)cshrc 1.11 89/11/29 SMI
umask 022
set path=(/bin /usr/bin /usr/ucb /etc .)
if ( $?prompt ) then
        set history=32
endif
stty erase '^?'
stty werase '^h'

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To fix the problem I moved the stty commands above the endif, exampe:

# @(#)cshrc 1.11 89/11/29 SMI
umask 022
set path=(/bin /usr/bin /usr/ucb /etc .)
if ( $?prompt ) then
        set history=32
        stty erase '^?'
        stty werase '^h'
endif

So, with this setup the stty commands won't be exicuted when the user
does a shell escape from within vi.

Thanks Everybody! 

-- 
Craig Mason	System Administrator    

800-333-4613 x3493
cmason@diasonics.com

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