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From: dprrhb@inetg1.ARCO.COM (Reginald H. Beardsley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How to detect remote terminals under X
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.152009.425@Arco.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 15:20:09 GMT
Sender: dprrhb@inetg1 (Reginald H. Beardsley)
Organization: ARCO Oil & Gas Company
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I work with a single home directory mounted by 5 different systems, DECstation
SPARCstation, Silicon Graphics, System V/386 and Sun 386i.  I solved the problem by dumping the environment variables to a file with the following lines
inserted in my .cshrc and .login files.

set      ..&.startup.log
printenv >>&.startup.log

I then worked through all the different symbols looking for distinctions.  
No one thing will work.  The term entries are the most useful but won't 
always work.  I was forced to do this because I usually use an Xterminal.
My .login sequence is several hundred lines and all I do is set the system 
up for the keyboard and display I am using.  It is very messy.  To cut the clutter I built a large case which switches on $TERM and sources configuration 
files for the individual systems.

I delete the .startup.log file when I log out to keep it from growing too
large.

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Reginald H. Beardsley       
ARCO Information Services
Plano, TX 75075           
Phone: (214)-754-6785
Internet: dprrhb@arco.com