Strange behavior from ex when input is redirected

Peter da Silva peter at baylor.UUCP
Mon Aug 19 13:30:03 AEST 1985


>     Terminal must have UP capability to use open/visual mode
> (even thought the only command in the file was "set"), or
>     Unknown terminal type "dumb"

Try execing 'ex' with argv[0]='edit'. Then it won't try to do a 'set open'.
Of course that shouldn't be a problem, because I've used 'ex' on dumb terminals
before...
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