Someone _may_ have setup a termcap entry for 'unknown' which
	has whatever magic they want to be for a default terminal.
	Sick and twisted they may be, but why break them? 

	If they have setup such an alias then the WARNING: message is
	probably not an issue for them - I'm reluctant to have the sleep
	:)

		David/absolute

	 -=-  "There will not be a send-off, a funeral or mass"  -=-

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Brian C. Grayson wrote:

> > 	How does:
> > 
> >         if ((ttype = getenv("TERM")) == NULL) {
> >                 fprintf(stderr,"WARNING: TERM environment variable not set.\n");
> >                 ttype = "unknown";
> >         }
> > 
> > 	grab people?
> 
>   Is there a good reason we don't just exit right away if TERM
> isn't set?  We're going to exit once the termcap lookup for
> "unknown" fails, anyway.
> 
>   If we don't exit right away, I'd still say, do a sleep(1) in
> case they have a termcap alias for "unknown" set up....  :)
>   
>   Brian
>