stty: : Not a typewriter

Wed Mar 13 23:34:24 AEST 1991

In article <1991Mar12.171653.1645 at fang.ATT.COM> ebd at fang.ATT.COM (Elliot B Dierksen) writes:
>
>I have a solution that I got from Don Lashcomb (donlash at uncle.UUCP) because
>it also happened with his enhanced cron.
>
>case "$-" in
>*i*)	stty splot ;;	# only runs stty when in interactive mode
>esac
>
>I already mailed that to Dave, but I thought it might be of interest to the
>net in general.
>

A quick, dumb question that probably belongs in comp.unix.shell, where does
the interactive (-i) flag get set?  Does ksh set the flag after verifying
whether or not it is interactive, or could this flag be mistakenly invoked
from a script?

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