Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
Managing 4GL Applications

Setting the terminal type

Use the appropriate command in Table 4–13 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 4–13: 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 OpenEdge Development: Progress 4GL Reference for more information.

Note: Terminal names are case sensitive.