NAME

term − conventional names for terminals

DESCRIPTION

These names are used by certain commands (e.g., tabs(1), man(1) and are maintained as part of the shell environment (see sh(1), profile(4), and environ(5)) in the variable $TERM : apollo any apollo display apollo_15P apollo 15 inch display apollo_19L apollo 19 inch display apollo_color apollo color display apollo_800_color apollo 800-line color display apollo_800_color1 apollo 15-inch color display apollo_15_color apollo 15-inch color display apollo_1280_color apollo 1280-line color display 1520 Datamedia 1520 1620 DIABLO 1620 and others using the HyType II printer 1620−12 same, in 12-pitch mode 2621 Hewlett-Packard HP2621 series 2631 Hewlett-Packard 2631 line printer 2631−c Hewlett-Packard 2631 line printer - compressed mode 2631−e Hewlett-Packard 2631 line printer - expanded mode 2640 Hewlett-Packard HP2640 series 2645 Hewlett-Packard HP264n series (other than the 2640 series) 300 DASI/DTC/GSI 300 and others using the HyType I printer 300−12 same, in 12-pitch mode 300s DASI/DTC/GSI 300s 382 DTC 382 300s−12 same, in 12-pitch mode 3045 Datamedia 3045 33 TELETYPE® Model 33 KSR 37 TELETYPE Model 37 KSR 40−2 TELETYPE Model 40/2 40−4 TELETYPE Model 40/4 4540 TELETYPE Model 4540 3270 IBM Model 3270 4000a Trendata 4000a 4014 TEKTRONIX 4014 43 TELETYPE Model 43 KSR 450 DASI 450 (same as Diablo 1620) 450−12 same, in 12-pitch mode 735 Texas Instruments TI735 and TI725 745 Texas Instruments TI745 dumb generic name for terminals that lack reverse  line-feed and other special escape sequences sync generic name for synchronous TELETYPE  4540-compatible terminals hp Hewlett-Packard (same as 2645) lp generic name for a line printer tn1200 User Electric TermiNet 1200 tn300 User Electric TermiNet 300

Up to 8 characters, chosen from [−a−z0−9], comprise a basic terminal name.  Terminal sub-models and operational modes are distinguished by suffixes beginning with a −.  Names should generally be based on original vendors, rather than local distributors.  A terminal acquired from one vendor should not have more than one distinct basic name. 

Commands whose behavior depends on the type of terminal should accept arguments of the form −Tterm where term is one of the names given above; if no such argument is present, such commands should obtain the terminal type from the environment variable $TERM, which, in turn, should contain term.

RELATED INFORMATION

man(1), nroff(1), sh(1), stty(1), tabs(1), profile(4), environ(7).