Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:25:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: m-braithwaite@sjca.edu (Matt Braithwaite) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggested patch to tab initialization in tset/set.c Message-ID: <199610041825.UAA03639@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610031535.LAA12487@whorfin.sjca.edu> from Matt Braithwaite at "Oct 3, 96 11:35:18 am"
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As Matt Braithwaite wrote: > > The TERM variable is already initialized well from within /etc/ttys, > > or passed down from the telnet remote peer. I would vote for killing > > this beast from the default .login/.profile templates. > > i'm not so sure about this. i might just be nostalgic, because i have > a few real terminals sitting around the house (one is an > ADM3---definitely NOT vt100 compatible!), but it really gives me a > warm fuzzy to have tset around to kick my terminal when i login. But then you are one of the 1 % of people who would add the tset anyway. For the other 99 %, it only scares the people, and often enough innocent enough people who don't quickly realize that it's this messy tset -q (or who simply don't know what it does, and thus won't ever kill it from their .login). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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