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"linux" terminal type

DISCUSSION Mark Lehrer 3 participants 3 messages Apr 4, 2001

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Mark Lehrer

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2001-04-04 15:09 UTC #0 lore raw

Is there any documentation on ths linux console terminal type? If so, where?

Thanks,
Mark

Hacksaw

2001-04-04 16:18 UTC #1 lore raw

Look in section 4 of the man pages for entries starting with "console".

console
console_codes
etc.

Ralf Baechle

2001-04-04 17:32 UTC #2 lore raw

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Quoted 8 lines · Mark Lehrer

Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:07:55 -0600
From: Mark Lehrer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: "linux" terminal type
Is there any documentation on ths linux console terminal type? If so, where?

Maybe cryptic but the most complete documentation of the linux terminal and it's relatives are probably /etc/termcap and the ncurses terminfo database. Aside of the code itself.

Ralf