NAME

term − conventional names for terminals

HP-UX COMPATIBILITY

Level: HP-UX/RUN ONLY

Origin: System III and UCB

DESCRIPTION

The environment variable TERM is used by certain commands (e.g., tabs(1), and is maintained as part of the shell environment (see profile(4), and environ(5)) The tset(1) command can be used to set the TERM variable When tset is used, the name to which TERM is set must be listed in the /terminfo data base (see terminfo(5)). 

hpsub Minimal subset of the capabilities of all Hewlett-Packard terminals and terminal emulators supported on both Series 500 and Series 200 HP-UX. 

hp Minimal subset of the capabilities of Hewlett-Packard terminals supported on both Series 200 and Series 500 HP-UX (does not include 98x6 Internal Terminal Emulator). 

9836 Internal Terminal Emulator (ITE) for the HP 9000 Models 236 and 220 computers. 

9826 Internal Terminal Emulator (ITE) for the HP 9000 Model 226 computer. 

262x Hewlett-Packard 262x family.  Includes the HP 2622, HP 2623, and HP 2624 terminals. 

2622 Hewlett-Packard HP 2622 terminal. 

2623 Hewlett-Packard HP 2623 graphics terminal. 

2624 Hewlett-Packard HP 2624 terminal. 

Other terminal names included in the /terminfo data base do not imply support of those terminals. 

The TERM variable is also used by certain commands (e.g. nroff(1), man(1), tabs(1)), some of which use terminal and printer description files from the /usr/lib/terms directory.  TERM names which have files in this directory include the following (note that the publication of these names and presence of these files does not imply support of these devices):

2631 Hewlett-Packard 2631 line printer. 

2631-c Hewlett-Packard 2631 line printer − compressed mode. 

2631-e Hewlett-Packard 2631 line printer − expanded mode. 

300 DASI/DTC/GSI 300 and others using the Hy Type I printer. 

300-12 Same as 300, in 12-pitch mode. 

300s DASI/DTC/GSI 300s

300s-12 Same as 300s, in 12-pitch mode. 

382 DTC 382. 

37 TELETYPE Model 27 KSR. 

4000A Trendata 4000A. 

450 DASI 450 (same as Diablo 1620). 

450-12 Same as 450, in 12-pitch mode. 

lp Generic name for a line printer. 

tn300 General Electric TermiNet 300. 

A basic terminal name can be up to eight characters chosen from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and −.  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.

SEE ALSO

ex(1), man(1), mm(1), more(1), nroff(1), sh(1), stty(1), tabs(1), tset(1), ul(1), curses(3), terminfo(5), profile(5), ttytype(5), environ(7). 
 
 

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