asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) (02/20/91)
In article <22295@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt2807a@prism.gatech.EDU (Benjamin H. Cowan) writes: > > I'd like to be able to set my PATH to different paths depending on the >machine type I log into. Is there a TERMTYPE shell variable? If not, >how might one go about figuring out which path to set depending on the >machine type? There are several programs compiled differently to run on >different types of machines and I would like to be able to put the correct >directories where the correct programs according to my machine type could >be found in my PATH. > Yes, there is a variable called TERM - you could do something like if [ $TERM = unknown ] then TERM=`tset - -m unknown:?vt100` fi case $TERM in z29) PATH=z29_path ;; vt100) PATH=vt100_path ;; vt102) PATH=vt102_path ;; wyse50) PATH=wyse50_path ;; *) PATH=default_path ;; esac That should work fine The Grand Master Bruce Varney