TTYTYPE(5)

NAME
ttytype - table of terminal types

SYNOPSIS
/etc/ttytype

DESCRIPTION
The environment variable TERM tells the type of terminal a process is connected to. The file /etc/ttytype lists the types of the terminal devices. It is a simple text file containing lines of two words:

    type device

Where type is one of the names of the terminal descriptions in /etc/termcap and device is the name of a terminal device as found in /dev.

The TERM variable is initialized from this file by login.

ENVIRONMENT

TERM
    Terminal type

NOTES
It is customary to set the type to dialup for a dialin line. One can check for that name in one's .profile.

SEE ALSO
ttys(5), login(8).

AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)