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From: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Subject: Can I read someone else's environment?
Message-ID: <1983@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 17:33:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 17 17:33:02 1986
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Organization: Marine Ecology Lab.
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I just kludged together a message system that puts a short note on the
alert line (#25) of someone else's terminal.  This is preferable to
write(1) for us, since we are usually editing files when a message
scrambles the screen.  For hard-wired terminals I can get the terminal
type from /etc/ttytypes, but is there any way I can read the terminal
type for a dial-up line so that I know what escape codes to send?