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From: rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz)
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Subject: A "fix" for wall.
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Date: 29 Mar 89 20:28:29 GMT
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   Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 14:30:50 -0500 (EST)
   From: Tom Crockett <tom@icase.edu>

   Can you achieve the same effect (i.e., avoiding unwanted "wall"
   messages) by starting xterm with the -ut option to prevent it from
   writing a record in utmp?

Yes.  It saves my sanity.  Actually, I use

xterm*utmpInhibit:	on

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