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Subject: setting TERM
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 17:32:23 EST
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> ...without having to do the horrible kluge of
> 
>	sleep 10000000 >/dev/ttyXX &
>
> to hold it open so that it doesn't reset its baud rate back to 300.

Thanks, Bill. I had a program that opened the tty, then slept! I'll do 
it your way from now on!

> I would also not mind seeing a TERM name stored in the terminal structure.
> I think that this makes more sense than storing it in the environment as
> a terminal type is logically more closely related to a tty port than it
> is to a process.  A process could theoritically be controlling more than
> one terminal of different types.
> -- 
> Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics

Why not have init/getty/sh just come right out & ask "TERMINAL TYPE?"
Of course, .profile/.login can do this, and I do. Good points.

	jim
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