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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Setting TERM
Message-ID: <5935@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 15:02:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 15:02:51 1985
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> ... in many
> environments today, the terminals are connected through some sort of network
> and it is not possible to know what kind of tty is connected through any
> port....

Any network (or port switch, or whatever) that isn't willing to tell you
the connectivity so you can get this information is broken.  Caveat emptor.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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