Reply to query on /dev/tty weirdness

Thu Mar 9 02:05:23 AEST 1989

In article <169 at mdcb.UUCP> you write:
>How come any attempt to open /dev/tty ( as O_RDWR ) fails with the error
>"No such device or address"...

This happens while running from a shell. cat ... > /dev/tty gives the same
error.

In fact, I get this error when trying to run dbx via a terminal and now
suspect that it must be related. Note: /dev/tty exists, is owned by root,
and has mode rw for all.