TERM

Section: Environments, Tables, and Troff Macros (7)
Updated: May 20, 1985
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NAME

term - conventional names for terminals  

DESCRIPTION

Certain commands use these terminal names. They are maintained as part of the shell environment (see sh(1),environ(7)).

adm3a     Lear Seigler Adm-3a
2621      Hewlett-Packard HP262? series terminals
hp        Hewlett-Packard HP264? series terminals
c100      Human Designed Systems Concept 100
h19       Heathkit H19
mime      Microterm mime in enhanced ACT IV mode
1620      DIABLO 1620 (and others using HyType II)
300       DASI/DTC/GSI 300 (and others using HyType I)
33        TELETYPE® Model 33
37        TELETYPE Model 37
43        TELETYPE Model 43
735       Texas Instruments TI735 (and TI725)
745       Texas Instruments TI745
dumb      terminals with no special features
dialup    a terminal on a phone line with no known characteristics
network   a terminal on a network connection with no known characteristics
4014      Tektronix 4014
vt52      Digital Equipment Corp. VT52

The list goes on and on. Consult /etc/termcap (see termcap(5)) for an up-to-date and locally correct list.

Commands whose behavior may depend on the terminal either consult TERM in the environment, or accept arguments of the form -Tterm, where term is one of the names given above.  

SEE ALSO

stty(1), tabs(1), plot(1G), sh(1), environ(7) ex(1), clear(1), more(1), ul(1), tset(1), termcap(5), termcap(3X)
troff(1) for nroff  

BUGS

The programs that ought to adhere to this nomenclature do so only fitfully.


 

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