TERM Environmental Variable TERM Name the default terminal type TERM=terminal type The environmental variable TERM names the type of terminal that you are using. This variable is read by every program that uses the termcap library, to ensure that the correct entry in the file /etc/termcap is read when the program is invoked. You should set this variable in your profile, to ensure that the system under- stands what type of terminal you use. The file /etc/profile sets TERMto ansipc. ***** See Also ***** environmental variables, termcap COHERENT Lexicon Page 1