"Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@postgres.berkeley.edu> writes:
> > >Description:
> > Trying to build a new termcap database with "make build" and output
> > redirected to a file results in the following:
> 
> does it happen when you just do a "make" in /usr/src/share/termcap?
> if so, how are you logged in, etc.?

It happens whenever there is no controlling tty for "ex".  This
happens to me also in zsh when I do a "nohup make -k all >& log &".
The top-level make keeps it's controlling tty, but the lower-level
makes don't.

	Mark
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