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Initialize a terminal. The terminal to be initialized is whichever is found first from the value of terminal, the value of the TERM environment variable, or the default terminal type. See also the reset command.
Options
-echar
Set the erase character to char.
-ichar
Set the interrupt character to char.
-I
Do not send terminal or tab initialization strings to the terminal.
-kchar
Set line-kill character to char.
-marg
Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal, where arg looks like this: