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From: mbennett@midas.UUCP (Mike Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: using set term in the .login file
Message-ID: <1341@midas.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 13:39:56 GMT
References: <1139@fredonia.UUCP>
Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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in article <1139@fredonia.UUCP>, sale5312@fredonia.UUCP (Marty Saletta) says:
>                             I'd like to be able to have the Vax 
>  recognize that I'm calling from home and automatically set the term to
>  VT52.  Specifically,I'd like a line something like this in my .login file:
> 
>    if (using ttyd1 or using ttyd2) then set term=vt52
> 

I assume that your Vax only has two dial-up lines and they are ttyd1
and ttyd2. If there are more, just add them to the list. This should work:

	     tty | grep "ttyd[12]" >/dev/null
	     if ( $status == 0 ) then
		set term=vt52
	     else
		set term=(term type at school)
	     endif

Mike Bennett
Languages Development
Gould Computer Systems Division, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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