Research V7 development

Work on file usr/man/man7/term.7

Co-Authored-By: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@research.uucp>
Synthesized-from: v7

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+.TH TERM 7 
+.SH NAME
+terminals\- conventional names
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+These names
+are used by certain commands and are maintained 
+as part of the shell environment
+(see
+.IR sh (1), environ (5)).
+.LP
+.nf
+.ta \w'450\-12\-8  'u
+1620   DIABLO 1620 (and others using HyType II)
+1620\-12       same, in 12-pitch mode
+300    DASI/DTC/GSI 300 (and others using HyType I)
+300\-12        same, in 12-pitch mode
+300s   DASI/DTC 300/S
+300s\-12       same, in 12-pitch mode
+33     TELETYPE\*R Model 33
+37     TELETYPE Model 37
+40\-2  TELETYPE Model 40/2
+43     TELETYPE Model 43
+450    DASI 450 (same as Diablo 1620)
+450\-12        same, in 12-pitch mode
+450\-12\-8     same, in 12-pitch, 8 lines/inch mode
+735    Texas Instruments TI735 (and TI725)
+745    Texas Instruments TI745
+dumb   terminals with no special features
+hp     Hewlett-Packard HP264? series terminals
+4014   Tektronix 4014
+tn1200 General Electric TermiNet 1200
+tn300  General Electric TermiNet 300
+vt05   Digital Equipment Corp. VT05
+.fi
+.PP
+Commands whose behavior may depend on the terminal
+accept arguments of the form
+.BR \-Tterm,
+where
+.I term
+is one of the names given above.
+If no such argument is present,
+a command may consult the shell environment
+for the terminal type.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+stty(1), tabs(1), plot(1),
+sh(1), environ(5)
+.br
+troff(1) for
+.I nroff
+.SH BUGS
+The programs that ought to adhere to this nomenclature
+do so only fitfully.