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- From: ukc!minster!forsyth
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 86 18:03:15 GMT
-
- It can be helpful for TZ to be a per-process value (eg, in the
- environment). For instance, if I am logged in to a computer
- several time zones away, with TZ set to reflect my local time,
- I might say
-
- echo "echo go to the pub | write $NAME" | at 7pm
-
- to get a message at 7pm my time, or (in the same session)
-
- TZ= at 3am <ada-testrun
-
- to cause a long-running job to be started on the remote
- system at a little-used time (their time).
-
- Similarly, I might set TERM per process if I wish
- to check the output of a supposedly terminal-independent
- program for different terminal types:
- TERM=vt100 greeneking | vis
- TERM=520 greeneking | vis
- ...
- I might do something similar if running emulators in
- different layers, though arguably that might be handled
- by the ``per port'' notion. (Although /etc/ttytype or
- whatever is hard pressed to deal with people logging
- in on different terminals on the same network or dial-in
- port.)
-
- There are other ways of doing these things,
- but I find this compositional style more attractive
- than, say, -l (local time) or -z (time zone) options
- to `at' and other commands.
- I'd be interested to see other approaches.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 14
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