.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% .\" .\" @(#)tset.1 6.8 (Berkeley) %G% .\" .Dd .Dt TSET 1 .Os BSD 4 .Sh NAME .Nm tset .Nd terminal initialization .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm tset .Op Fl IQs .Op Fl .Op Fl e Ar ch .Op Fl i Ar ch .Op Fl k Ar ch .Op Fl m Ar mapping .Op Ar terminal .br .Nm reset .Op Fl IQs .Op Fl .Op Fl e Ar ch .Op Fl i Ar ch .Op Fl k Ar ch .Op Fl m Ar mapping .Op Ar terminal .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Tset initializes terminals. .Nm Tset first determines the type of terminal that you are using. This determination is done as follows, using the first terminal type found. .sp .Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent .It The .Ar terminal argument specified on the command line. .It The value of the .Ev TERM environmental variable. .It The terminal type associated with the standard error output device in the .Pa /etc/ttys file. .It The default terminal type, ``unknown''. .El .Pp If the terminal type was not specified on the command-line, the .Fl m option mappings are then applied (see below for more information). Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark (``?''), the user is prompted for confirmation of the terminal type. An empty response confirms the type, or, another type can be entered to specify a new type. Once the terminal type has been determined, the termcap entry for the terminal is retrieved. If no termcap entry is found for the type, the user is prompted for another terminal type. .Pp Once the termcap entry is retrieved, the window size, backspace, interrupt and line kill characters (among many other things) are set and the terminal and tab initialization strings are sent to the standard error output. Finally, if the erase, interrupt and line kill characters have changed, or are not set to their default values, their values are displayed to the standard error output. .Pp When invoked as .Nm reset , .Nm tset sets cooked and echo modes, turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline translation and resets any unset special characters to their default values before doing the terminal initialization described above. This is useful after a program dies leaving a terminal in a abnormal state. Note, you may have to type .Dq Li reset (the line-feed character is normally control-J) to get the terminal to work, as carriage-return may no longer work in the abnormal state. Also, the terminal will often not echo the command. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width flag .It Fl The terminal type is displayed to the standard output, and the terminal is not initialized in any way. .It Fl e Set the erase character to .Ar ch . .It Fl I Do not send the terminal or tab initialization strings to the terminal. .It Fl i Set the interrupt character to .Ar ch . .It Fl k Set the line kill character to .Ar ch . .It Fl m Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal. See below for more information. .It Fl s Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize the environment variables .Ev TERM and .Ev TERMCAP to the standard output. .It Fl Q Don't display any values for the erase, interrupt and line kill characters. .El .Pp The arguments for the .Fl e , .Fl i and .Fl k options may either be entered as actual characters or by using the .Dq hat notation, i.e. control-h may be specified as .Dq Li ^H or .Dq Li ^h . .Sh SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT It is often desirable to set the terminal type and information about the terminal's capabilities in the shell's environment. This is done with the .Fl s option; when this option is specified, the commands to enter the information into the shell's environment are output to the standard output. If the .Ev SHELL environmental variable ends in ``csh'', the output commands are for the .Xr csh 1 , otherwise, they are for .Xr sh 1 . Note, the output commands for the .Nm csh set and unset the shell variable .Dq noglob . The following line in the .Pa .login or .Pa .profile files will initialize the environment correctly: .Bd -literal -offset indent eval \`tset -s options ... \` .Ed .Sh TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the current system information is incorrect) the terminal type derived from the .Pa /etc/ttys file or the .Ev TERM environmental variable is often something generic like .Dq network , .Dq dialup , or .Dq unknown . When .Nm tset is used in a startup script .Pf ( Pa .profile for .Xr sh 1 users or .Pa .login for .Xr csh 1 users) it is often desirable to provide information about the type of terminal used on such ports. The purpose of the .Fl m option is to .Dq map from some set of conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell .Nm tset ``If I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on that kind of terminal''. .Pp The argument to the .Fl m option consists of an optional port type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specification, an optional colon (``:'') character and a terminal type. The port type is a string (delimited by either the operator or the colon character). The operator may be any combination of: .Dq Li \&> , .Dq Li \&< , .Dq Li \&@ , and .Dq Li \&! ; .Dq Li \&> means greater than, .Dq Li \&< means less than, .Dq Li \&@ means equal to and .Dq Li \&! inverts the sense of the test. The baud rate is specified as a number and is compared with the speed of the standard error output (which should be the control terminal). The terminal type is a string. .Pp If the terminal type is not specified on the command line, the .Fl m mappings are applied to the terminal type. If the port type and baud rate match the mapping, the terminal type specified in the mapping replaces the current type. If more than one mapping is specified, the first applicable mapping is used. .Pp For example, consider the following: .Dq Li dialup>9600:vt100 . The port type is .Dq Li dialup , the operator is .Dq Li > , the baud rate specification is .Dq Li 9600 , and the terminal type is .Dq Li vt100 . The result of this mapping is to specify that if the terminal type is .Dq Li dialup , and the baud rate is greater than 9600 baud, a terminal type of .Dq Li vt100 will be used. .Pp If no port type is specified, the terminal type will match any port type, for example, .Dq Li -m dialup:vt100 -m :?xterm will cause any dialup port, regardless of baud rate, to match the terminal type .Dq Li vt100 , and any non-dialup port type to match the terminal type .Dq Li ?xterm . Note, because of the leading question mark, the user will be queried on a default port as to whether they are actually using an .Ar xterm terminal. .Pp No whitespace characters are permitted in the .Fl m option argument. A missing port type matches all port types. To avoid problems with metacharacters, it is best to place the entire .Fl m option within single quote characters. .Nm Csh users normally must also place a backslash character (``\e'') before any exclamation marks (``!''). .Sh ENVIRONMENT The .Nm tset command utilizes the .Ev SHELL , .Ev TERM and .Ev TERMCAP environment variables. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/termcap -compact .It Pa /etc/ttys system port name to terminal type mapping database .It Pa /usr/share/misc/termcap terminal capability database .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr csh 1 , .Xr sh 1 , .Xr stty 1 , .Xr tty 4 , .Xr termcap 5 , .Xr ttys 5 , .Xr environ 7 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm tset command appeared in .Bx 3.0 . .Sh COMPATIBILITY The historic .Fl A , .Fl a , .Fl d , .Fl E , .Fl h , .Fl p , .Fl r , .Fl S , .Fl u and .Fl v options have been deleted from the .Nm tset utility. None of these flags were documented in 4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at best. Executing .Nm tset as .Nm reset no longer implies the .Fl Q option. The .Fl n option remains, but has no effect. .Pp It is still permissible to specify the .Fl e , .Fl i and .Fl k options without arguments, although it is strongly recommended that such usage be fixed to conform to .Xr getopt 3 . Also, some historic implementations of .Nm tset had an interaction between the .Fl option and the .Ar terminal argument. This is no longer true. .Pp Finally, the .Nm tset implementation has been completely redone as part of the addition to the system of a .St -p1003.1-88 compliant terminal interface, and will no longer compile on systems with older terminal interfaces.