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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: More questions for the merge of SR9 and SR10.
Keywords: sr9, sr10, environments
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Date: 28 Sep 90 10:12:48 GMT
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[This is repost, since I was informed that the previous version did
 not get thru to our central news system. If not so sorry for
 the waste bandwidth]

Remember my questions on the merge of sr9 and sr10 systems?
Well here's another stupid question.

Dependant on the system on which a user logs in, I want
him to have a idea on the type of OS he is running.

Now it has never come to mind a Hpollo that not only
the SYSTYPE was interesting to the user, but there might
be others.

The file /etc/environ sort of suggest that variables
here declared get exported to user-shells.
Just forget it. Not even the variable ENVIRONMENT makes it
to the user.

So I've made a variable OSTYPE=sr{9 or 10} and it is
exported in startup.{19l,1280bw}
This works a little, but only for processes forked by dm

It dit not work for crp and/or telnet.
For crp an addition to /etc/rc worked, but still not
for telnet since login cancels all environment.
(Unless -p is used, but this has two disadvantages:
 1) I've got to modify /etc/telnetd
 2) Everything gets thru!
 )

Question:
	How do I get OSTYPE to the logins via telnet
	in a simple way.

Thanx
	Willem Jan Withagen.

PS: From the 'HUGE ;-{' response on my SR9 <> SR10 questions
    I gather that there not many abnormalities like this
    running the REAL world.
PS2: I got a warning from my support-rep that the going to
    cancel support for OS9.7 in another 2 months.

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