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diff --git a/man5/ttytype.5 b/man5/ttytype.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..096274ab1 --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/ttytype.5 @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, +.\" USA. +.\" +.\" 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 1993-07-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +ttytype \- terminal device to default terminal type mapping +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.I /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 +.IR /dev/ ") prefix." + +This association is used by the program +.BR 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. +.SH EXAMPLE +A typical +.I /etc/ttytype +is: +.RS +.sp +con80x25 tty1 +.br +vt320 ttys0 +.sp +.RE +.SH FILES +.TP +.I /etc/ttytype +the tty definitions file. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR getty (1), +.BR termcap (5), +.BR terminfo (5) |