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--term(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual term(7) +term(7) Miscellaneous term(7) @@ -51,35 +51,35 @@
- The environment variable TERM should normally contain the type name of + The environment variable TERM should normally contain the type name of the terminal, console or display-device type you are using. This information is critical for all screen-oriented programs, including your editor and mailer. - A default TERM value will be set on a per-line basis by either - /etc/inittab (e.g., System-V-like UNIXes) or /etc/ttys (BSD UNIXes). + A default TERM value will be set on a per-line basis by either + /etc/inittab (e.g., System-V-like Unices) or /etc/ttys (BSD Unices). This will nearly always suffice for workstation and microcomputer consoles. If you use a dialup line, the type of device attached to it may vary. - Older UNIX systems pre-set a very dumb terminal type like "dumb" or + Older Unix systems pre-set a very dumb terminal type like "dumb" or "dialup" on dialup lines. Newer ones may pre-set "vt100", reflecting the prevalence of DEC VT100-compatible terminals and personal-computer emulators. - Modern telnets pass your TERM environment variable from the local side + Modern telnets pass your TERM environment variable from the local side to the remote one. There can be problems if the remote terminfo or termcap entry for your type is not compatible with yours, but this situation is rare and can almost always be avoided by explicitly exporting "vt100" (assuming you are in fact using a VT100-superset - console, terminal, or terminal emulator.) + console, terminal, or terminal emulator). - In any case, you are free to override the system TERM setting to your - taste in your shell profile. The tset(1) utility may be of assistance; + In any case, you are free to override the system TERM setting to your + taste in your shell profile. The tset(1) utility may be of assistance; you can give it a set of rules for deducing or requesting a terminal type based on the tty device and baud rate. - Setting your own TERM value may also be useful if you have created a + Setting your own TERM value may also be useful if you have created a custom entry incorporating options (such as visual bell or reverse- video) which you wish to override the system default type for your line. @@ -88,24 +88,24 @@ underneath /usr/share/terminfo. To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do - toe | more + toe | more from your shell. These capability files are in a binary format - optimized for retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based termcap format - they replace); to examine an entry, you must use the infocmp(1M) + optimized for retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based termcap format + they replace); to examine an entry, you must use the infocmp(1m) command. Invoke it as follows: - infocmp entry_name + infocmp entry_name - where entry_name is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the + where entry_name is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the name of its capability file the subdirectory of /usr/share/terminfo named for its first letter). This command dumps a capability file in - the text format described by terminfo(5). + the text format described by terminfo(5). - The first line of a terminfo(5) description gives the names by which + The first line of a terminfo(5) description gives the names by which terminfo knows a terminal, separated by "|" (pipe-bar) characters with the last name field terminated by a comma. The first name field is the - type's primary name, and is the one to use when setting TERM. The last + type's primary name, and is the one to use when setting TERM. The last name field (if distinct from the first) is actually a description of the terminal type (it may contain blanks; the others must be single words). Name fields between the first and last (if present) are @@ -129,23 +129,23 @@ name; some historical terminfo names use it. The root name for a terminal or workstation console type should almost - always begin with a vendor prefix (such as hp for Hewlett-Packard, wy - for Wyse, or att for AT&T terminals), or a common name of the terminal - line (vt for the VT series of terminals from DEC, or sun for Sun - Microsystems workstation consoles, or regent for the ADDS Regent + always begin with a vendor prefix (such as hp for Hewlett-Packard, wy + for Wyse, or att for AT&T terminals), or a common name of the terminal + line (vt for the VT series of terminals from DEC, or sun for Sun + Microsystems workstation consoles, or regent for the ADDS Regent series. You can list the terminfo tree to see what prefixes are already in common use. The root name prefix should be followed when - appropriate by a model number; thus vt100, hp2621, wy50. + appropriate by a model number; thus vt100, hp2621, wy50. The root name for a PC-Unix console type should be the OS name, i.e., - linux, bsdos, freebsd, netbsd. It should not be console or any other + linux, bsdos, freebsd, netbsd. It should not be console or any other generic that might cause confusion in a multi-platform environment! If a model number follows, it should indicate either the OS release level or the console driver release level. The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it does not fit one of the standard ANSI or vt100 types) should be the program name or a - readily recognizable abbreviation of it (i.e., versaterm, ctrm). + readily recognizable abbreviation of it (i.e., versaterm, ctrm). Following the root name, you may add any reasonable number of hyphen- separated feature suffixes. @@ -183,47 +183,47 @@ Conventionally, if your terminal type is a variant intended to specify a line height, that suffix should go first. So, for a hypothetical FuBarCo model 2317 terminal in 30-line mode with reverse video, best - form would be fubar-30-rv (rather than, say, "fubar-rv-30"). + form would be fubar-30-rv (rather than, say, "fubar-rv-30"). Terminal types that are written not as standalone entries, but rather - as components to be plugged into other entries via use capabilities, + as components to be plugged into other entries via use capabilities, are distinguished by using embedded plus signs rather than dashes. Commands which use a terminal type to control display often accept a -T option that accepts a terminal name argument. Such programs should - fall back on the TERM environment variable when no -T option is + fall back on the TERM environment variable when no -T option is specified. -
- For maximum compatibility with older System V UNIXes, names and aliases - should be unique within the first 14 characters. +
+ /usr/share/terminfo + compiled terminal description database + /etc/inittab + tty line initialization (AT&T-like Unices) -
- /usr/share/terminfo/?/* - compiled terminal capability data base + /etc/ttys + tty line initialization (BSD-like Unices) - /etc/inittab - tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes) - /etc/ttys - tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes) +
+ For maximum compatibility with older System V Unices, names and aliases + should be unique within the first 14 characters.
- curses(3X), terminfo(5), term(5). + curses(3x), term(5), terminfo(5) - term(7) +ncurses 6.5 2024-03-16 term(7)