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From: barry@adelie.Adelie.COM (Barry A. Burke)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: Fun with tset
Message-ID: <5861@adelie.Adelie.COM>
Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 20:53:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: adelie.5861
Posted: Sun Apr 26 20:53:27 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Apr-87 00:58:46 EDT
References: <6069@dartvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: barry@adelie.Adelie.COM (Barry A. Burke)
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Keywords: remember last terminal type used

In article <6069@dartvax.UUCP> earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>Here's one to make the computer "remember" the last terminal you
>were using.  You can override at the prompt from tset.
.
.
.
>unset noclobber
>set | sed -n -e '/term/s/ //' -e '/term/s/term//p' > $HOME/.oldterm

Silly! Why not:

echo $TERM > $HOME/.oldterm

 or

echo $term > $HOME/.oldterm


Methinks a case of someone too addicted to the "Real Hacker's Use {sed, awk,
grep, ... } Guide to Wasting Time" >8*X

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