.TH TTYTYPE 5
.SH NAME
ttytype \- table of terminal types
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /etc/ttytype
.SH DESCRIPTION
The environment variable
.B TERM
tells the type of terminal a process is connected to.  The file
.B /etc/ttytype
lists the types of the terminal devices.  It is a simple text file
containing lines of two words:
.PP
.RS
.I "type	device"
.RE
.PP
Where
.I type
is one of the names of the terminal descriptions in
.B /etc/termcap
and
.B device
is the name of a terminal device as found in
.BR /dev .
.PP
The
.B TERM
variable is initialized from this file by
.BR login .
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP 15n
.B TERM
Terminal type
.SH NOTES
It is customary to set the type to
.B dialup
for a dialin line.  One can check for that name in one's
.BR .profile .
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ttys (5),
.BR login (8).
.SH AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)