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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
| 2 | .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 | |
| fea681da | 3 | .\" |
| e4a74ca8 | 4 | .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later |
| c13182ef | 5 | .\" |
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6 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:17:50 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> |
| 7 | .\" Modified Thu Oct 19 21:25:21 MET 1995 by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de> | |
| 8 | .\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond | |
| 9 | .\" <esr@thyrsus.com>xk | |
| 4c1c5274 | 10 | .TH ttytype 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" |
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11 | .SH NAME |
| 12 | ttytype \- terminal device to default terminal type mapping | |
| 13 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| c13182ef | 14 | The |
| fea681da | 15 | .I /etc/ttytype |
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16 | file associates |
| 17 | .BR termcap (5)/ terminfo (5) | |
| 18 | terminal type names | |
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19 | with tty lines. |
| 20 | Each line consists of a terminal type, followed by | |
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21 | whitespace, followed by a tty name (a device name without the |
| 22 | .IR /dev/ ") prefix." | |
| 2dad4c59 | 23 | .PP |
| c13182ef | 24 | This association is used by the program |
| fea681da | 25 | .BR tset (1) |
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26 | to set the environment variable |
| 27 | .B TERM | |
| 28 | to the default terminal name for | |
| fea681da | 29 | the user's current tty. |
| 2dad4c59 | 30 | .PP |
| fea681da | 31 | This facility was designed for a traditional time-sharing environment |
| 008f1ecc | 32 | featuring character-cell terminals hardwired to a UNIX minicomputer. |
| fef0efe4 | 33 | It is little used on modern workstation and personal UNIX systems. |
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34 | .SH FILES |
| 35 | .TP | |
| 36 | .I /etc/ttytype | |
| 37 | the tty definitions file. | |
| a14af333 | 38 | .SH EXAMPLES |
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39 | A typical |
| 40 | .I /etc/ttytype | |
| 41 | is: | |
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42 | .PP |
| 43 | .in +4n | |
| 44 | .EX | |
| fea681da | 45 | con80x25 tty1 |
| fea681da | 46 | vt320 ttys0 |
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47 | .EE |
| 48 | .in | |
| 47297adb | 49 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| fea681da | 50 | .BR termcap (5), |
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51 | .BR terminfo (5), |
| 52 | .BR agetty (8), | |
| 27334eaf | 53 | .BR mingetty (8) |