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In article <4869@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes:
> 
> 	Send <Esc>T<Title Text><LF> to the screen -- the <Title Text> can
> be anything you want, event the output from `pwd`.
> 
> 	echo "<Esc>T`pwd`" should do it handily.

This doesn't work at all here (twm+xterm); it just puts the `pwd` minus
its first two bytes out on the next line, and doesn't alter the title
bar.  Here's what I use here and on some DECwindows systems at work:

switch ( "$TERM" )  # Some terminal-specific stuff.
	case xterm*:    # For xterm, we know how to write to the title bar.
			alias   setttl 'echo "^[]0;"$HOST":"`pwd`"^G"'
			alias   putttl 'echo "^[]0;"\!*"^G"'
	...

I then use setttl in the alias for cd and rlogin, and putttl when I want
to write the title bar from a script.

So how many different ways are there to do it, and on which systems?  Is
there any really portable way?


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