Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!usenet!jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU!cosgrok From: cosgrok@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Kevin Cosgrove) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How could I set term at login Keywords: tset, .login Message-ID: <1991Feb24.025601.5539@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 24 Feb 91 02:56:01 GMT References: <476@bria> <1991Feb21.022452.18693@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Feb23.173043.3526@ugle.unit.no> Sender: @lynx.CS.ORST.EDU Organization: Oregon State University, CS Dept. Lines: 9 Nntp-Posting-Host: jacobs.cs.orst.edu Setting the terminal type at login with something like "TERM=(vt100)" is pretty good, until the user moves to a new terminal and absent mindedly hits return before realizing they're on an old ADM terminal. For that reason I have the following in the skeleton .cshrc file for users. alias newterm 'set noglob;eval `tset -srQ ??`;unset noglob' -- Kevin Cosgrove