Kai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just tried "TERM='?xterm' tset" on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, and I
> saw the following two prompts (Linux = FreeBSD):
>
> TERM = (xterm)
> Terminal type? [xterm]
>
> (Each of the lines ends with a space.) Right. Recognizing these
> seems to be simple enough. Any other prompts that you are seeing?
If it helps, I see the "TERM = (...) " prompt on IRIX and Digital Unix.
> But what should I be sending to the remote shell (to the tset,
> really)? How about `dumb RET'? I guess that's the best we can do,
> right? Is that terminal type defined on all machines?
Yes, I would go with "dumb" as the response.
The worst thing that could happen is that you'd get an error message that
says "Type dumb unknown". You'll still get a shell prompt in my testing.
Later,
Ed
