HP-UX

[Vij_Rdv]

Hai folks, 

Anyone explain about term=hp in hp-ux...?

[Matti_Kurkela]

It's the default terminal type of HP terminals that were often used with HP-UX servers.

What would you need explained about it?

[parnassus]

@Matti_KurkelaI suspect @Vij_Rdv asked what is the meaning of HP acronym into the HP-UX name (HP Unix name). If so Wikipedia does help (here).

[Dennis Handly]

No, he asked about TERM=hp, that @Matti_Kurkela  explained

[Bill Hassell]

There are two contexts where this string might appear.

1. In /etc/profile (and possibly in $HOME/.profile), this line might appear by itself as part of terminal setup. It would appear as:

TERM=hp

But without any context, it is not possible to define the effect. The hp TERM setting refers to proprietary HP terminals manufactured during the late 1970s (2640a, etc) through the 1990s. Like many ASCII terminals models, they have a number of features beyond plain ASCII that are triggered by special sequences of characters. These features are often used in programs with menus. In HP-UX, the character version of swinstall is a good example. But setting the TERM variable in the environment to a different TERM value (wy30, vt100, tek4012, etc) that doesn't match the terminal being used, the display can be unreadable.

2. If the context for the string TERM=hp appears during a login, it may be coming from a terminal setup program such as ttytype as a result of not getting a recognisable query response from the current terminal (or terminal emulator). 

[parnassus]

Ah...gosh...too simple (TERM vs term).