Piping data to Linux program which expects a TTY (terminal)

Question

I have a program in Linux which refuses to run if its stdin/stdout is not a TTY (terminal device). Is there an easy-to-use tool which will create a PTY, start the program wi

Answer 1

unbuffer, part of expect (sudo apt-get install expect-dev on Ubuntu Lucid), can fool a program into thinking it's connected to a TTY.

$ tty 
/dev/pts/3
$ echo | tty 
not a tty
$ echo | unbuffer tty 
/dev/pts/11