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From: richl@penguin.USS.TEK.COM (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: utility to determine rlogin?
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Date: 15 Jun 88 22:49:12 GMT
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Jerry Peek <jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu> writes:

   So, setting up my .login was easy.  I put a test like this one in it:

       switch ("`ttykind`")
       case network:
	       # do stuff for network login
       case xxx:
	       # do stuff for xxx login
       default:
    
In article <16109@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
    
    Why not just do `switch ($term)'? You don't need ttykind, except for
    finding out *other* peoples terminal types.

Because rlogin will pass the terminal type across for you. $term may not
provide the information you want.

Rick