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



NAME
       ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mapping

DESCRIPTION
       The  /etc/ttytype  file associates termcap(5)/terminfo(5) terminal type names with tty lines.
       Each line consists of a terminal type, followed by whitespace, followed by a tty name (a  de‐
       vice 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 UNIX systems.

FILES
       /etc/ttytype
              the tty definitions file.

EXAMPLES
       A typical /etc/ttytype is:

           con80x25 tty1
           vt320 ttys0

SEE ALSO
       termcap(5), terminfo(5), agetty(8), mingetty(8)

COLOPHON
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