Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: faketerm, take 2 Message-ID: <554@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 13:43:10 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.554 Posted: Mon Mar 4 13:43:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 17:31:05 EST References: <8901@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 13 > Anyway, this version of faketerm should work much better: > > ... > TERM=$term TERMCAP=/etc/termcap $* For a little extra refinement, try "$@" in place of $* (i.e., TERM=$term TERMCAP=/etc/termcap "$@" ). That will cause all arguments to be enclosed in quotes, so that arguments containing spaces, etc. won't be split into multiple tokens. -- Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy