Re: `tty`: Ambiguous. -- what does this mean?

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From: Larry Masinter
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 09:58

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I just patched a related problem. I had a csh program that did

if (`tty` == /dev/console) ...

and was getting `tty`: Ambigious when I did a "rsh".

However, if you do a rsh host tty, you see that tty returns "not a
tty". The solution was just to put quotes around it:

if ("`tty`" == /dev/console) ...




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Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
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