MirBSD manpage: term(7)
TERM(7) UNIX Reference Manual TERM(7)
term - conventional names for terminals
Certain commands use these terminal names. They are maintained as part of
the shell environment (see sh(1), environ(7)).
adm3a Lear Seigler Adm-3a
2621 Hewlett-Packard HP262? series terminals
hp Hewlett-Packard HP264? series terminals
c100 Human Designed Systems Concept 100
h19 Heathkit H19
mime Microterm mime in enhanced ACT IV mode
735 Texas Instruments TI735 (and TI725)
745 Texas Instruments TI745
dumb terminals with no special features
dialup a terminal on a phone line with no known
network a terminal on a network connection with no known
xterm a workstation running X
4014 Tektronix 4014
vt100 Digital Equipment Corp. VT100
The list goes on and on. Consult /usr/share/misc/termcap (see termcap(5))
for an up-to-date and locally correct list.
Commands whose behavior may depend on the terminal either consult TERM in
the environment, or accept arguments of the form -Tterm, where term is
one of the names given above.
clear(1), ex(1), more(1), plot(1), sh(1), stty(1), tabs(1), troff(1),
tset(1), ul(1), termcap(3), tty(4), termcap(5), ttys(5), environ(7)
The programs that ought to adhere to this nomenclature do so only fitful-
ly.
Term appeared in Version 32 AT&T UNIX.