acarlson@math.umass.edu (Adam Carlson) (10/23/90)
Hi folks, First of all, I would like to appologize to all the people who asked me for a summary of the responses to queries I made re: Tiff & Pict file formats, and VT100 emulators for Sunview. The former I'm still waiting for some more info, and the latter I will post real soon now (really, I've been sick :-). Now, on to the heart of the matter, I have my .login file set to do an eval `tset -s \?$TERM` when not logged in at the console. Unfortunately, whenever I log in remotely, I am prompted appropriately (i.e. TERM = (network)), but when I respond with my terminal type, I get a setenv: Too many arguments. Then, a printenv will show that my TERM is set to the right value, but I have no TERMCAP variable. If I manually enter eval `tset -s`, it doesn't give an error message, and sets TERMCAP correctly. Now, the wierd part (if that wasn't wierd enough). If I type, eval `tset -s` (with or without the \?$TERM for prompting), I will alternately get the above error message or have it succeed. If I type it in and it works, then when I type it in again, it won't, and vice versa. What don't I know about tset (answer- lot's :-) that would cause this behavior? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I'm running SunOS 4.1 on a Sun 3/80 Please respond directly to me. Thanks Adam Carlson acarlson@math.umass.edu