silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (04/18/91)
In article <1991Apr18.130802.7221@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> eddc@opus.lerc.nasa.gov (Dave Carek) writes: > >Do a man on launch to get more info. BTW there's alot of other cool >utilities in /usr/sbin you might want to check out. There is some great stuff there, and I started to use launch and confirm in shell scripts, until I realized that they wouldn't run if I logged in from a dumb terminal. Is there an easy way to determine whether the terminal supports these various goodies other than a hack like a string of case $TERM in ... followed by a list of acceptable terminal aliases? If so, I could easily put together something like launch that invokes /usr/sbin/launch only if it will run, otherwise giving me a dumb menu. -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biome!silvert BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca