TTYTYPE(5)                                          Linux Programmer's Manual                                         TTYTYPE(5)



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 3.25 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/.



Linux                                                      1993-07-24                                                 TTYTYPE(5)