in reply to Valid tty problem

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Re: Re: Valid tty problem
by tilly (Archbishop) on May 05, 2004 at 05:35 UTC
    He's not trying to make his program know whether he was handed a tty. He's trying to hand something else a tty that his program controls.

    The filetest, therefore, doesn't help.

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