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From: pato@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Pato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: TERM Variable at 10.3
Message-ID: <4fa32e87.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 91 19:26:00 GMT
References: <262@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>
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In article <262@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>,
rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dick Harrigill) writes:
|> I posted a notice last week about the TERM variable:
|> 
|> >  At 10.3 this variable is always "apollo".  It is no longer set
|> >  to a function of the screen type (e.g. apollo_1280_bw).
|> 
|> I have since received several mail messages, most stating that they have
|> not experienced this at their own site.  This is interesting because the
|> TERM variable was indeed reset on my ring using 19"bw (1280bw), 330s (19l), 
|> and 15" color (19l).  I am using the identacal .RC and startup files that
|> I used with 10.2, so I can't trace it to something I have done differently.
|> 
 
|> -- 
|> Dick Harrigill, an independent voice from:     Boeing Commercial Airplanes 
|> M/S 9R-49  PO BOX 3707                       Renton Avionics/Flight Systems
|> Seattle, WA  91824                                  Computing Support
|> (206) 393-9539     rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com

The TERM variable is controlled by the entry in the /etc/ttys file.  If
you look at this file you will probably find that the "term" entry for the
display is set to "apollo".  This is the default setting we send out with
every machine.  You should edit this entry to correspond to the display
type attached to the machine.

                    -- Joe Pato
                       Cooperative Computing Division
                       Hewlett-Packard Company
                       pato@apollo.hp.com