when using this file, label and ilabel set the term 'title' and icon labels.
they do this by sending to stdout. commands like: 'ftp -o - ftp://blah/foo>foo'
do not like having data added to the output stream.
since we only define these two functions in an environment where /dev/tty
exists, send output to /dev/tty to make sure it does not corrupt the output
stream of commands.