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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)
