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From: steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problems with hpterm
Message-ID: <7370053@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 89 01:09:04 GMT
References: <772@pai.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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} Hpterms, if left alone for a period of time, just seem to "die".
}     a) The hpterm window disappears.

	When this happens, is the default shell csh ?
The description sounds like what happens when the shell which is spawned
for the window terminates.  Csh has an autologout feature.  From csh(1):
	If the terminal remains idle (no character input) at the shell's
	top level for a number of minutes greater than the value assigned
	to _autologout_, you are automatically logged off.

} The term "left alone for a period of time" means that the window has
} no input (nor output) for a period of about an hour.

	Continuing from csh(1):
	The initial value of _autologout_ is 60.  If unset or set to 0,
	_autologout_ is entiredly disabled.

	I use ksh on my system, which is also standard 6.5, and have not 
observed this behavior, but I remember this question or a similar one
being asked internally some time back.
						Regards, Steve Taylor

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