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From: jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System wide .login
Message-ID: <1317@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 09:57:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: osiris.1317
Posted: Mon Jul 20 09:57:39 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 00:54:46 EDT
References: <2626@sdsu.UUCP> <142700009@tiger.UUCP> <4668@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Lines: 42
Summary: try qterm!!!

In article <4668@ihlpa.ATT.COM>, kai@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Irwin) writes:
> In article <142700009@tiger.UUCP>, rjd@tiger.UUCP writes:
> > 
> > >     I've tried to set up a shell script in the systems /etc/profile
> > > to read user input and set the terminal type accordingly, but I ran into
> > > a problem with the TERM variable being exported to the login shell and
> > > not to the users shell.  A system wide .login might run into similar
> > > 'environment' problems.  I'm running System V (ver 3.0) on a 3B2-400.

I have a program called qterm which gets the type of the terminal by
asking the terminal hardware to identify itself.  Currently it works
with vt52/10x/2x0 as well as a bunch of terminal emulators.  It is easy to
modify it to allow additional terminals.  

 * qterm - Query Terminal
 *
 * qterm is used to query a terminal to determine the name of the terminal.
 * This is done by sending a fairly universal string "\33Z" to the terminal,
 * reading in a response, and comparing it against a master table of responses
 * and names.  The "name" printed to standard output should be one found in
 * the termcap(5) database.
 *
 * Putting a line in your .login files such as:
 *
 *	setenv TERM `qterm`
 *
 * will set your terminal type automagically.

If anyone wants this, I could email it to them.  If there are enough requests
I can try to post it.


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