diff -Npaur aMule-2.0.0rc8/configure.in aMule-2.0.0rc8-hack/configure.in
--- aMule-2.0.0rc8/configure.in	Mon Dec 20 23:08:21 2004
+++ aMule-2.0.0rc8-hack/configure.in	Sat Mar 12 22:22:13 2005
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ AC_TYPE_SIGNAL
 AC_FUNC_STAT
 AC_FUNC_STRFTIME
 AC_FUNC_STRTOD
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([__argz_count __argz_next __argz_stringify endpwent floor ftruncate getcwd gethostbyaddr gethostbyname gethostname getmntent getmntinfo getpass gettimeofday inet_ntoa memchr memmove mempcpy memset munmap nl_langinfo select setlocale socket sqrt stpcpy strcasecmp strchr strcspn strdup strerror strncasecmp strrchr strstr strtoul])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([__argz_count __argz_next __argz_stringify endpwent floor ftruncate getcwd gethostbyaddr gethostbyname gethostname getmntent getmntinfo getpass gettimeofday inet_ntoa isatty memchr memmove mempcpy memset munmap nl_langinfo select setlocale socket sqrt stpcpy strcasecmp strchr strcspn strdup strerror strncasecmp strrchr strstr strtoul])
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # End of autoscan stuff
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff -Npaur aMule-2.0.0rc8/src/ExternalConnector.cpp aMule-2.0.0rc8-hack/src/ExternalConnector.cpp
--- aMule-2.0.0rc8/src/ExternalConnector.cpp	Sun Dec 12 12:59:00 2004
+++ aMule-2.0.0rc8-hack/src/ExternalConnector.cpp	Sat Mar 12 22:26:32 2005
@@ -264,11 +264,17 @@ void CaMuleExternalConnector::TextShell(
 	wxString buf;
 
 	bool The_End = false;
-	do {
-		GetCommand(prompt, buffer, 256);
-		buf = char2unicode(buffer);
-		The_End = Parse_Command(buf, commands);
-	} while ((!The_End) && (m_isConnected));
+#ifdef HAVE_ISATTY
+	if ( ! isatty(0) ) {
+		while(m_isConnected);
+		return;
+	}
+#endif
+		do {
+			GetCommand(prompt, buffer, 256);
+			buf = char2unicode(buffer);
+			The_End = Parse_Command(buf, commands);
+		} while ((!The_End) && (m_isConnected));
 }
 
 CECPacket *CaMuleExternalConnector::SendRecvMsg_v2(CECPacket *request)