NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | EXAMPLE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

TTYTYPE(5)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                    TTYTYPE(5)

NAME         top

       ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mapping

DESCRIPTION         top

       The /etc/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.

FILES         top

       /etc/ttytype
              the tty definitions file.

EXAMPLE         top

       A typical /etc/ttytype is:

              con80x25 tty1
              vt320 ttys0

SEE ALSO         top

       termcap(5), terminfo(5), agetty(8), mingetty(8)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                                 1993-07-24                           TTYTYPE(5)