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-.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
-.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
-.\"
-.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-.\"
-.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:17:50 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
-.\" Modified Thu Oct 19 21:25:21 MET 1995 by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
-.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond
-.\" <esr@thyrsus.com>xk
-.TH ttytype 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
-.SH NAME
-ttytype \- terminal device to default terminal type mapping
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.I /etc/ttytype
-file associates
-.BR termcap (5)
-and
-.BR terminfo (5)
-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
-.I /dev/
-prefix).
-.P
-This association is used by the program
-.BR tset (1)
-to set the environment variable
-.B TERM
-to the default terminal name for
-the user's current tty.
-.P
-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.
-.SH FILES
-.TP
-.I /etc/ttytype
-the tty definitions file.
-.SH EXAMPLES
-A typical
-.I /etc/ttytype
-is:
-.P
-.in +4n
-.EX
-con80x25 tty1
-vt320 ttys0
-.EE
-.in
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR termcap (5),
-.BR terminfo (5),
-.BR agetty (8),
-.BR mingetty (8)