ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA.UUCP (06/19/87)
Note: I'm running GNU Emacs 18.30 on an Apollo DN3000 running Aegis SR 9.2.5
and Unix BSD 4.2.
When I start a csh under emacs (using M-x shell), I get the message:
Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
before the csh prompt appears. At this point, the "tty" command informs me
that I'm "not a tty" (even though in the csh in which I ran emacs the "tty"
command returned "/dev/tty").
More clues: If I run /bin/start_csh instead of /bin/csh, I don't a prompt
from the shell at all (but it's there... I can type commands to it.) Perhaps
it's in non-interactive mode but in any case it thinks that I'm "not a tty".
I don't really care about the "job control" bit, but "not a tty" means, among
other things, that "ls" lists your files in a single column, and other nasty
things like that.
I seem to recall that this problem didn't used to occur but I may be
mistaken. Is this a bug or a feature, and is there any way around it?
-- Ashwin Ram --
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