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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Determining Terminal Type Date: 30 Jul 1996 21:30:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4tluud$c0o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4tjv6q$rco@news.netusa.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jw@usbbs.com (John Woodstock) wrote: > Is there an easy way to have BSD query the terminal when someone > telnets or dials into the system in order to see what type of terminal > it is? I can see how to do it manually, just couldn't see any way to > do it automagically.. Read the Unix Haters Handbook to learn about this misconception of Unix. ;-) Actually, telnet can forward the existing TERM variable. There's null chance for dialin, however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)