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Managing ABL Applications
ABL and R-code Deployment and Management : Maintaining User Environments : Maintaining the UNIX user environment : Setting the terminal type
 
Setting the terminal type
Use the appropriate command 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 18. 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 an OpenEdge program with the following ABL statement:
TERMINAL = termid
See the TERMINAL function reference entry in OpenEdge Development: ABL Reference for more information.
Note: Terminal names are case sensitive.