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From: AR.BXA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Bob Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: setting the term type
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Date: 1 Feb 91 22:23:41 GMT
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odd little problem has me scratching my head; and hoping for
help:

situation:
- HP9000/835 running 7.0
- Application requires everyone be "homed" to the same
  directory at login.
- .profile at home set term type to 'hp'; this works for
   most of users as most are HP terminal, either native or
   emulation.
- the obvious solution, using inittab, won't work because
  the majority of our users arrive via a port selector on
  any one of 9 ports...  unpredictable.
- took care of the first few "funny" terminals (vt100) by
  picking up the user id and doing an IF THEN to set them
  differently.
- as the strange term types accumulate this grows
  progressively more clunky and inelegant all the time.
- a particular problem occurs, of course, with the
  infrequent occasion when the user logs in with his id on
  someone else's term.

question:

anyone suggest a likely avenue to explore 'a better way'?

obvious by now is the caveat:  novice in attendance.

thanks for any help ..

bob