redhat man page for ttytype

TTYTYPE(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							TTYTYPE(5)

NAME
       ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mapping

DESCRIPTION
       The  /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 /dev/) prefix.

       This association is used by the program 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.

EXAMPLE
       A typical /etc/ttytype is:

	      con80x25 tty1
	      vt320 ttys0

FILES
       /etc/ttytype
	      the tty definitions file.

SEE ALSO
       getty(1), terminfo(5), termcap(5)

Linux								    1993-07-24								TTYTYPE(5)