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.SH NAME
term \-
conventions for naming terminal types
which you wish to override the system default type for your line.
.PP
Terminal type descriptions are stored as files of capability data underneath
-\*d.
+@TERMINFO@.
To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do
.sp
@TOE@ | more
@INFOCMP@ \fIentry_name\fP
.sp
where \fIentry_name\fP is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the
-name of its capability file the subdirectory of \*d named for its first
+name of its capability file the subdirectory of @TERMINFO@ named for its first
letter).
This command dumps a capability file in the text format described by
\fBterminfo\fP(5).
on the \fITERM\fP environment variable when no \-T option is specified.
.SH FILES
.TP
-.I \*d
+.I @TERMINFO@
compiled terminal description database
.TP
.I /etc/inittab