Failure of iswind()

[Edward M. Markowski]

In article <1991May24.203238.7990 at sci.ccny.cuny.edu>, jeffrey at sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
| Just for fun, I tried the following command from my VAX to my
| ethernet'ted 3b1:
| 
| % rsh notvax /usr/games/klondike
| 
| Now, considering the fact that I'm not logged in on the console, this
| should fail.
| 
| Any idea why all these games (klondike/mahjongg/rocks/bugs) all have
| this behavior?  Is it only seen when using the ethernet package?

This seems to be a problem an all of the ports.

The solution I have used for this problem is to make shure that the
major number of the control tty and /dev/window match, this seems 
to work well.

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