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From: rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Script for setting TERM type
Message-ID: <2553@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 17:06:19 EST
Article-I.D.: megaron.2553
Posted: Sun Oct 25 17:06:19 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 04:57:22 EST
References: <155@wa3wbu.UUCP> <5093@columbia.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 50
Summary: Non-interactive set of TERM type

In article <5093@columbia.edu>, francus@cheshire.columbia.edu (Yoseff Francus) writes:
> 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
> >	
> 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

You can set TERM without the need for user response at logon,
by including the following code in .profile and constructing
a datafile, /etc/termfile, that associates a terminal type with 
a tty-port.  The code works for microport sysV/AT. It is written for
direct tty connections.  For modem connections you might want
to grep for logname and change the termfile appropriately.


INCLUDE IN .PROFILE

TERM=ansi
aaa=`/bin/grep \`/bin/tty\` /etc/termfile | /usr/bin/cut -d" " -f3`
if [ $aaa ]
then
	TERM=$aaa
fi
export TERM


CREATE /ETC/TERMFILE (EXAMPLE FOLLOWS)

console /dev/console ansi
cons1 /dev/cons1 ansi
cons2 /dev/cons2 ansi
cons3 /dev/cons3 ansi
room1 /dev/tty4C otrona
room2 /dev/tty4E otrona
eric /dev/tty4B tvi
john /dev/tty4D otrona


John Rupley
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