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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Script for setting TERM type
Message-ID: <7701@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 16:06:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 16:06:06 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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A solution was suggested to look at the output of /bin/tty for the
terminal id, and do a lookup. Using "who am i" will allow this to work
on BSD as well.

  set `who am i`
  # now $1 is user, $2 is port

  case $2 in
  con*)		# this is the console
		;;
  ttyXX)	 # any hardwired line of known type here
		;;
  *)		# dialin lines here
		case $1 in
		user1)	# decode each user
		  ;;
		case2)	# and set type
		  ;;
		*)	# default, ask...
		  echo "Enter terminal type:"
		  read ttype
		esac
  esac
  TERM=$ttype ; export TERM

Hope this helps. If you are only concerned with yourself, put this in
your personal .profile and eliminate the user tests. For general use put
in /etc/profile. Some csh user could post a version for csh, I haven't
done the exercise.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me