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From: don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Script for setting TERM type
Message-ID: <262@seila.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 00:15:22 EST
Article-I.D.: seila.262
Posted: Wed Oct 28 00:15:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 14:16:23 EST
References: <155@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Reply-To: don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman, SEI)
Organization: SEI Information Technology, LA, CA
Lines: 27
Summary: use tset ...

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.
>	

I use the following on SCO Xenix; it uses a ".term" file to keep
track of the last terminal you used:

	(put in your .profile)

if [ -f .term ]
then
	term=`cat .term`
else
    term=vt100
fi
tset -m $term:\?$term -s > .tset
. .tset
rm -f .tset
echo $TERM > .term
unset term

-- 
Don Kossman, SEI Information Technology, Los Angeles
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