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TERM



PURPOSE

Lists conventional names for terminals.

DESCRIPTION

These names are used primarily for commands such as mm and nroff.  These names
are maintained as part of the shell environment in the variable TERM.  See the
sh command in AIX Operating System Commands Reference for an explanation of the
shell.  Also see "profile" and "environment" in this book for use of the TERM
environment variable.

TERM         Terminal Description

ibm3161      IBM 3161 ASCII Display Station
ibm3161      IBM 3163 ASCII Display
ibm3161-C    IBM 3161 ASCII Display Station with cartridge (for international
             character support)
ibm3162      IBM 3162 ASCII Display (for international character support)
ibm8503      IBM 8503 Display
ibm8507      IBM 8507 Display
ibm8512      IBM 8512 Display
ibm8513      IBM 8513 Display
ibm8514      IBM 8514 Display
ibm8604      IBM 8604 Display
vt100        DEC VT100
vt220        DEC VT220
dumb         Terminal types with no special features (such as reverse line
             motion) (implies -c)
lp           Line Printer (implies -c) (must pipe through lpr or some such
             filter)
37           Teletype Model 37 KSR
42           ADM 42 (implies -c)
300          DASI (DTC, GSI) 300
300s         DASI 300s
300-12       DASI 300 at 12-pitch
300s-12      DASI 300s at 12-pitch
tn300        TermiNet 300 (implies -c)
382          DTC 382
450          DASI 450 (same as Diablo 1620) DEFAULT
450-12       DASI 450 (same as Diablo 1620) 12-pitch
2631         HP 2631 series line printer (implies -c)
2631-e       HP 2631 series (expanded mode) (implies -c)
2631-c       HP 2631 series (compressed mode) (implies -c)
4000a        Trendata 4000a





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Up to eight characters chosen from "[-a-z0-9]" make up a basic terminal name.
Terminal sub-models and operational modes are distinguished by suffixes
beginning with a "-" (hyphen).  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
parameters such as -Tterm where term is one of the names in the preceding list.
If the parameter is not in the list, the commands should obtain the terminal
type from the environment variable TERM, which in turn should contain term.
Any unknown terminal is treated as a dumb terminal.

This list does not include all supported terminals.  See "terminfo" for
additional TERM variables.

FILE

usr/lib/help/term

RELATED INFORMATION

In this book:  "environment" and "terminfo."

The mm, sh, stty, tabs, nroff, and environ commands in AIX Operating System
Commands Reference.






























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