Re: MiNT bug

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
 >
 >>I was just writing this simple script, and it seems MiNT
 >>(or the shell?) doesn't understand the $TTY variable:
 >>
 >>--------/usr/etc/ttylog--------
 >>#!/bin/sh
 >>echo "MiNT 1.14 ("$HOSTNAME") ("$TTY")"
 >>exec tail -f /var/log/syslog
 >>#end
 >
 >change it into:
 >echo "MiNT 1.14 ("$HOSTNAME") (`tty`)"
 >
 >tty in our case is a program that will fetch the current tty, 

Sounds nice, except it doesn't excuse MiNT not supporting $TTY which
is a standard Unix environment variable.


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