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From: avr@hou2d.UUCP (Adam V. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Script for setting TERM type
Message-ID: <1681@hou2d.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 20:28:40 EST
Article-I.D.: hou2d.1681
Posted: Sat Oct 24 20:28:40 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 01:24:18 EST
References: <155@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
Lines: 38
Summary: Call it .profile

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
> 	

The relevant script fragment is

echo 'Terminal: \c' ; read TERM ; export TERM

You can either put the above directly in your .profile, or put it
in a file such as $HOME/termscript and add to your .profile the line

. termscript

This will cause it to be executed in your login shell.
If you invoked your script with "$ termscript" instead
of "$ . termscript" while testing, the script would be executed in
a child shell, and your newly set $TERM would disappear when the
child shell exited.

In the future, please post your queries to "comp.unix.questions"
and not "comp.unix.wizards", at least until you have a question
that truly requires wizardly expertise.
				Adam Reed (hou2d!avr)