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term

term(7) 						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						   term(7)

Name
       term - conventional names for terminals

Description
       Certain commands use these terminal names. They are maintained as part of the shell environment. For further information, see and

       adm3a	 Lear-Siegler ADM-3a
       2621	 Hewlett-Packard HP262? series terminals
       hp	 Hewlett-Packard HP264? series terminals
       c100	 Human Designed Systems Concept 100
       h19	 Heathkit H19
       mime	 Microterm mime in enhanced ACT IV mode
       1620	 Diablo 1620 (and others using HyType II)
       300	 DASI/DTC/GSI 300 (and others using HyType I)
       33	 Teletype Model 33
       37	 Teletype Model 37
       43	 Teletype Model 43
       735	 Texas Instruments TI735 (and TI725)
       745	 Texas Instruments TI745
       dumb	 Terminals with no special features
       dialup	 A terminal on a phone line with no known characteristics
       network	 A terminal on a network connection with no known characteristics
       4014	 Tektronix 4014
       vt52	 Digital Equipment Corp. VT52
       vt100	 Digital Equipment Corp. VT100
       vt200	 Digital Equipment Corp. VT200 - used on VT220, VT240
       vt300	 Digital Equipment Corp. VT300 - used on VT330, VT340
       xterm	 xterm terminal emulator, X window system

       See for an up-to-date and locally correct list.	See for more information on

       Commands  whose	behavior may depend on the terminal, either consult TERM in the environment, or accept arguments of the form where term is
       one of the names given above.

See Also
       clear(1), ex(1), more(1), nroff(1), plot(1g), sh(1), stty(1), tabs(1), tset(1), ul(1), termcap(3x), termcap(5), environ(7)

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