setting TERM [converted to 4.2BSD gripe]

[Steve Harpster]

...And then there are people like us who use a packet switch among our
computers ---  you can never be sure what tty you're on (i.e, the
terminal in my office may be tty01 on this login, but next time it
could be ttyhb).  Why should getty waste time looking up baudrates and
ttytypes?  In our case, we have a program which polls the terminal and
``guesses''.  It can be slow and not always right but if you don't like
it, you just don't call it.
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...ihnp4!tellab1!steve
Steve Harpster
Tellabs, Inc.