.TH TERMS 5 "Dec 2000" "File Formats" .SH NAME terms \- database of blessed terminals for xtermset. .SH DESCRIPTION The terms database is a file whichs tells xtermset which terminals are controllable. .LP .B terms is usually located in .I /usr/share/xtermset and it is an ASCII file. A blessed terminal is described in one line. .LP There are several modifiers which affect the way how xtermset interprets the .B TERM variable\. .LP .B ^ tells xtermset that .B $TERM should begin with .I . .LP .B $ tells xtermset that .B $TERM should begin with .I .LP .B tells xtermset that .B $TERM must contain .I .LP You can combine the .I ^ and the .I $ options to create an exact match for .B $TERM .