Fun with tset

[Earle R. Horton]

Here's one to make the computer "remember" the last terminal you
were using. You can override at the prompt from tset.

In your ".logout"

unset noclobber
set | sed -n -e '/term/s/ //' -e '/term/s/term//p' > $HOME/.oldterm
echo See you tomorrow $user.

In your ".login"

set OLDTERM = `cat $HOME/.oldterm`
loop:
set noglob; eval `tset -s -Q \?$OLDTERM`
if ($TERM == "unknown") goto loop
set term = $TERM

[Barry A. Burke]

In article <60...@dartvax.UUCP> ear...@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>Here's one to make the computer "remember" the last terminal you
>were using. You can override at the prompt from tset.

.
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>unset noclobber
>set | sed -n -e '/term/s/ //' -e '/term/s/term//p' > $HOME/.oldterm

Silly! Why not:

echo $TERM > $HOME/.oldterm

or

echo $term > $HOME/.oldterm

Methinks a case of someone too addicted to the "Real Hacker's Use {sed, awk,
grep, ... } Guide to Wasting Time" >8*X

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