TTYTYPE
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (5)
Updated: 24 July 1993
NAME
ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mapping
DESCRIPTION
The
/.et/ttytype
file associates termcap/terminfo terminal type names
with tty lines. Each line consists of a terminal type, followed by
whitespace, followed by a tty name (a device name without the
/dev/) prefix.
This association is used by the program
tset(1)
to set the environment variable TERM to the default terminal name for
the user's current tty.
This facility was designed for a traditional time-sharing environment
featuring character-cell terminals hardwired to a Unix minicomputer.
It is little used on modern workstation and personal Unixes.
EXAMPLE
A typical
/.et/ttytype
is:
-
con80x25 tty1
vt320 ttys0
FILES
- /.et/ttytype
-
the tty definitions file.
SEE ALSO
getty(1), terminfo(5), termcap(5)