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终端描述以 Linux 命名，它提供了自己的控制台模拟器（与其他几个内核一样）。
除了 FreeBSD，所有 Linux 和现代 BSD 平台都通过从ncurses 中的 terminfo 数据库派生来获得“termcap” 。控制台条目特定于实现它们的系统（与在多个平台上运行的许多终端模拟器不同）。
ncurses 1.8.6（1994 年 10 月）中对linux终端描述的评论指出：
# Note that the statdard Linux console is now called 'linux' instead
# of 'console'. terminals with sizes other than 80x25 need to append
# their size to linux and add an entry like the one for 132x43 below
那是特定于 Linux 的，但随着 ncurses 的移植而进行了概括。
在 ncurses 来源中，这部分INSTALL很旧（见于1995 年 11 月的1.9.7a），但并未过时：
Naming the Console Terminal
In various systems there has been a practice of designating the system
console driver type as `console'. Please do not do this! It
complicates peoples' lives, because it can mean that several different
terminfo entries from different operating systems all logically want to
be called `console'.
Please pick a name unique to your console driver and set that up
in the /etc/inittab table or local equivalent. Send the entry to the
terminfo maintainer (listed in the misc/terminfo file) to be included
in the terminfo file, if it's not already there. See the
term(7) manual page included with this distribution for more on
conventions for choosing type names.
Here are some recommended primary console names:
linux -- Linux console driver
freebsd -- FreeBSD
netbsd -- NetBSD
bsdos -- BSD/OS
If you are responsible for integrating ncurses for one of these
distributions, please either use the recommended name or get back
to us explaining why you don't want to, so we can work out nomenclature
that will make users' lives easier rather than harder.
终端数据库中有一个部分用于这些：ANSI, UNIX CONSOLE, AND SPECIAL TYPES，虽然没有“vt-generic”描述，也没有（鉴于变体之间的差异），是否有合理的选择。
如果您寻找“vt-generic”，您可能会发现只有在不太流行的实现中，例如 Informix（见本文件）：
# @(#)/etc/termcap 0.0
#
# Informix product aware termcap file
#
# Author: Marco Greco, <marcog@ctonline.it>, Catania, Italy
#
# Initial release: Jun 97
# Current release: Jul 98
#
# Absolutely no warranty -- use at your own risk
#
# Notes: Adapted from the default Slackware termcap file:
# added gs, ge, gb, ZG, ZA capabilities, shifted function keys
# down by one, added ki, kj, kf, kg
#
# Limit the size of each entry - 4gl apps core dump if applicable
# entry too long
#
# Entries other than vt's, console & xterm *untested*
#
# From: miquels@drinkel.ow.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
#
# Okay guys, here is a shorter termcap that does have most
# capabilities and is ncurses compatible. If it works for you
# I'd like to hear about it.
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