Name

ttytype — terminal device to default terminal type mapping

DESCRIPTION

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

/etc/ttytype

the tty definitions file.

EXAMPLE

A typical /etc/ttytype is:

con80x25 tty1

vt320 ttys0

SEE ALSO

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

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 3.24 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.


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