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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!snuffy!mtarrant
- From: mtarrant@ATK.COM (Mike Tarrant)
- Subject: Terminal question
- Message-ID: <C0pCCE.2oF@ATK.COM>
- Organization: Alliant TechSystems Inc.
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:21:49 GMT
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- I just added a terminal to my system, so I can program in a more
- comfortable location than where my console is located (my basement
- electronics workshop).
- My question is, at a system level, how does Coherent "know" that the
- terminal at the end of /dev/com4pl is a vt100, or a wyse50, or tvi925?
- I know there is the TERM environmental variable in my .profile file,
- but if I make that the terminal type, it'll be wrong when I log-on at
- the console (ansipc).
- As far I have been able to determine, terminal type is tied to the
- user, and I think it should be known only by the system. What am I
- missing?
- - Mike
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