bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) (11/17/89)
Does anyone know of (or have) a replacement for tset (preferably one
that's an improvement)? That's the BSD program which prompts you for a
terminal type, usually used in login scripts.
From the BUGS section:
The tset command is one of the first commands a user must
master when getting started on a UNIX system. Unfor-
tunately, it is one of the most complex, largely because of
the extra effort the user must go through to get the
environment of the login shell set. Something needs to be
done to make all this simpler, either the login program
should do this stuff, or a default shell alias should be
made, or a way to set the environment of the parent should
exist.
Right. I was wondering if anyone had tackled this problem before I try
something on my own. It's a design problem much more than a
programming problem, what does a user really want...what's a mother to
do?
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