Name
ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mappingDescription
The /etc/ttytype file associates termcap(5)/ terminfo terminal type names with tty lines. Each line consists of a terminal type, followed by whitespace, followed by a tty name (a device name without the/dev/ ") prefix."
This association is used by the program tset(1) to set the environment variable TERM to the default terminal name for the user's current tty.
This facility was designed for a traditional time-sharing environment featuring character-cell terminals hardwired to a UNIX minicomputer. It is little used on modern workstation and personal UNIX systems.
Files
/etc/ttytype the tty definitions file.
Examples
A typical /etc/ttytype is:con80x25 tty1 vt320 ttys0