man5/ttytype.5

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  10 .TH TTYTYPE 5 2022-09-09 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
  11 .SH NAME
  12 ttytype \- terminal device to default terminal type mapping
  13 .SH DESCRIPTION
  14 The
  15 .I /etc/ttytype
  16 file associates
  17 .BR termcap (5)/ terminfo (5)
  18 terminal type names
  19 with tty lines.
  20 Each line consists of a terminal type, followed by
  21 whitespace, followed by a tty name (a device name without the
  22 .IR /dev/ ") prefix."
  23 .PP
  24 This association is used by the program
  25 .BR tset (1)
  26 to set the environment variable
  27 .B TERM
  28 to the default terminal name for
  29 the user's current tty.
  30 .PP
  31 This facility was designed for a traditional time-sharing environment
  32 featuring character-cell terminals hardwired to a UNIX minicomputer.
  33 It is little used on modern workstation and personal UNIX systems.
  34 .SH FILES
  35 .TP
  36 .I /etc/ttytype
  37 the tty definitions file.
  38 .SH EXAMPLES
  39 A typical
  40 .I /etc/ttytype
  41 is:
  42 .PP
  43 .in +4n
  44 .EX
  45 con80x25 tty1
  46 vt320 ttys0
  47 .EE
  48 .in
  49 .SH SEE ALSO
  50 .BR termcap (5),
  51 .BR terminfo (5),
  52 .BR agetty (8),
  53 .BR mingetty (8)