For ACUCOBOL-GT to run, it needs to know about the video environment it is running in. On Extended-DOS and Windows-based machines, it directly examines the hardware and configures itself appropriately. On UNIX, OS/2, and VMS based machines, you must supply to ACUCOBOL-GT a description of the terminal you are using. This section describes briefly how to do that. Additional details are provided in Chapter 4, "Terminal Manager" in Book 1, "User's Guide."
On those systems that do not configure themselves automatically, describing the terminal to ACUCOBOL-GT involves two steps:
1. First, you identify the terminal by setting the "TERM" variable.
2. Second, you ensure that the terminal's characteristics are accurately described in the terminal database file.
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