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diff --git a/man/man5/ttytype.5 b/man/man5/ttytype.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..92dcf0f --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/ttytype.5 @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.\" 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 2024-05-02 "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) |