Setting TERM

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sat Sep 7 05:02:51 AEST 1985


> ... in many
> environments today, the terminals are connected through some sort of network
> and it is not possible to know what kind of tty is connected through any
> port....

Any network (or port switch, or whatever) that isn't willing to tell you
the connectivity so you can get this information is broken.  Caveat emptor.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry



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