Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ccivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccivax!crp From: crp@ccivax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: RE: How do *you* identify terminals? Message-ID: <128@ccivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 10:21:33 EST Article-I.D.: ccivax.128 Posted: Thu Feb 23 10:21:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 02:35:25 EST Organization: CCI Telephony Systems Group, Roch, NY Lines: 24 On System 3 and System 5, the Bourne Shell looks in /etc/profile before $HOME/.profile. We use /etc/profile to set $TERM (by looking in /etc/ttytype for the terminal) Where /etc/profile looks like: TERM=`tty | sed 's,/dev/,,'` TERM=`grep $TERM /etc/ttytype` if [ "$TERM". = . ] ; then TERM=dumb else TERM=`echo $TERM | sed 's, .*,,'` fi export TERM and /etc/ttytype looks like: h19 tty00 vt100 tty01 Chuck Privitera Computer Consoles Inc. Rochester, NY