cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (02/26/85)
/* > ...without having to do the horrible kluge of > > sleep 10000000 >/dev/ttyXX & > > to hold it open so that it doesn't reset its baud rate back to 300. Thanks, Bill. I had a program that opened the tty, then slept! I'll do it your way from now on! > I would also not mind seeing a TERM name stored in the terminal structure. > I think that this makes more sense than storing it in the environment as > a terminal type is logically more closely related to a tty port than it > is to a process. A process could theoritically be controlling more than > one terminal of different types. > -- > Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics Why not have init/getty/sh just come right out & ask "TERMINAL TYPE?" Of course, .profile/.login can do this, and I do. Good points. jim */