term(5) term(5)NAME term - conventional names for terminals DESCRIPTION These names are used by certain commands (such as nroff(1), mm(1), man(1), and tabs(1)) and are maintained as part of the shell environment (see sh(1), profile(4), and environ(5)) in the variable $TERM: 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 Terminal Model 33 KSR 37 TELETYPE Terminal Model 37 KSR 40-2 TELETYPE Terminal Model 40/2 40-4 TELETYPE Terminal Model 40/4 4540 TELETYPE Terminal 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 linefeed 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 General Electric TermiNet 1200 tn300 General Electric TermiNet 300 Up to 8 characters, chosen from [-a-z0-9], make up a basic terminal name. Terminal submodels 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. January 1992 1
term(5) term(5)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. See /etc/termcap on your system for a complete list. LIMITATIONS This is a small candle trying to illuminate a large, dark problem. Programs that ought to adhere to this nomenclature do so somewhat fitfully. SEE ALSO profile(4), environ(5) mm(1), nroff(1), sh(1), stty(1), tabs(1), tplot(1G) in A/UX Command Reference 2 January 1992