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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: I need to unset & reset TERM environment variable from .login
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Date: 3 Apr 91 13:51:07 GMT
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In article <13825@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, sutton@lamar.colostate.edu (Richard Sutton) writes:
|> Rather than manually doing a unsetenv TERM followed by a setenv TERM = vt100,
|> could anyone tell me how to have .login detect that TERM is vt102, then 
|> reset TERM to vt100? Please mention which FM if the answer is RTFM.

  It seems to me that you're asking for a simple if statement to test the
value of $TERM and change it if appropriate.

    if ("$TERM" == "vt102") then
      set term=vt100
      setenv TERM vt100
    endif

Note that the "setenv" is probably unnecessary, because the shell will
probably change TERM when you set term (mine does), but it doesn't hurt to do
it just in case.

  The M you should R is csh(1).

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