There are many ways in which you may customize the default functions
of your login process.   You'll need to invoke the pico editor on 
your .login file, located in your home directory and edit in the 
changes you'd like to make.

Your .login file will most likely contain the following setup options.
The "#" character indicates a comment line.  All other lines are commands
that are executed during login.

The following line sets the terminal mode to the standard DEC (Digital
Equipment Corp.) settings.  The erase character will be the "Delete"
key and "Control-c" will be the interrupt key. 

	# delete deletes and ^C interrupts
	stty dec

If you would like to set your erase character to the "Backspace" key,
add the following line:

	stty erase ^H

If you have selected a terminal type on your local host computer
that is higher than vt100 (the default for The World) you may set
the terminal type you use here.   All future login attempts will 
then prompt you for your specific terminal type, to which you must
answer with a .

	# Set for your terminal type...
	# you can change "vt100" to the name of the terminal you use
	set noglob; eval `tset -s -m ':?vt100'`
	unset noglob

The World recommends that you do not alter the following function.

	# Avoid nasty core files
	limit coredumpsize 0k

You may disable any of the following three functions by prefacing them
with a comment character or removing them. As they are presented here,
"msgs", "subj" and "f" will run when the login process is activated.

	# Print announcements of note
	msgs
	# a random adage
	/usr/games/fortune
	# show what mail you have in an indexed listing
	subj 
	# show whois logged in using the finger program
	f

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