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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: TERM=cons25 in roots' .profile?!?
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:41:28 -0500 (CDT)
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> In message <199610181336.IAA02730@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Joe Greco writes:
> : > TERM=cons25			<<<< This is bad. 
> : > export TERM
> 
> Doesn't "TERM=${TERM:-cons25}" do the trick?

It is a better fix, but not a complete fix.

I think the suggestion put forth by Bruce has somewhat more merit, as it
does not try to solve the problem in a single place.  It has the advantage
of not setting HOME as well.

Anything is probably better than the current hard coding though.

... JG