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Setting the Terminal Type

Use the appropriate command in Table 5–13 to make a new terminal type the current terminal type. The commands assume that the name of the new terminal type is my_term_type.

Table 5–13: Setting the Terminal Type 
Operating
System

Command

Environment
UNIX (Bourne shell)
TERM="my_term_type"; export 
TERM 
In .profile or at the shell prompt
UNIX (C shell)
setenv TERM "my_term_type" 
In .profile or at the shell prompt

Alternately, you can change the terminal type from within a Progress program with the following Progress statement:

TERMINAL = termid 

See the TERMINAL Function reference entry in the Progress Language Reference for more information.

NOTE: Terminal names are case sensitive.


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