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From: francus@cheshire.columbia.edu (Yoseff Francus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Script for setting TERM type
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Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 20:21:50 EST
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In article <155@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>
>     Im running Microport Sys V/AT on an AT-clone. Can anyone give me
>a shell script for setting the Terminal type at login time. I use the
>same login for myself but throughout the day use several terminal types.
>Invaribly I forget to manually set TERM type and then VI, and well you
>know the rest :-)
>
>     I would like a small script to stick on the end of .profile that
>would give me a one-line prompt at login time and ask me for my terminal
>type. Preferably if nothing were entered it would default to vt100.
>
>     I attempted to write my own script and everything looked like it
>worked except the term type wouldnt actually get changed. Any ideas ?
>
>						
>					John
>	
I use the following lines at the beginning of my .profile and
it works fine. If I don't specify any terminal it defaults to hds.

echo "TERM (hds): \c";read TERM
if [ "${TERM}" = "" ]
then
	TERM=hds
fi
export TERM TERMCAP LOGNAME  EDITOR

This has worked under Berkeley Unix and Sys V UNIX, under bith Ksh and bsh.

Yoseff


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