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Date:Mon Jun 4 21:28:41 2002 
Subject:bash via ved:imsh under Redhat 7.3 
From:Joe Wood 
Volume-ID:1020604.03 

Having installed Redhat 7.3, and rebuilt poplog all went fine until I
happened to use imsh in ved.

Before proceeding, I should explain that I run pop-11 from a standard
(non-X) login, however, I have replicated the problem under X.

Anyway Bash starts up, but a line of the form (sorry this is from memory)
appears in the Bash shell every time return is typed:
readline: warning: rl_prep_terminal: unable to determine terminal type: imsh
$

After some detective work, I find that the message is coming from GNU
readline via bash, i.e. it is not a fault with ved or pop-11.

I believe that this occurs because bash tries to set up in-line edit
facilities, which we probably we don't want under ved. I believe that this
can (not tested) be overcome by starting bash with '--noediting'. If this is
true its fine for RH7.3 with bash but it would be better to determine if
bash is running inplace of sh and what version is running.

Any ideas?

This problem does not occur with csh.

Thanks