Much more is needed in this respect. One way to solve this problem would be if terminal manufacturers put their manuals on the Internet. I suggest that you encourage them to do so. There are so many different terminals, but there are far fewer models than there used to be in the 1980,s so the task is not totally infeasible. Notes by Brand Name.
Various formats are available.
Go to the websites shown above to get these. It has general technical info on the serial port including troubleshooting it. 1.5 Terminology Used in this Document Configuration means the same as set-up. If you know for sure, let me know. Programs execute on the host computer but the results display on the terminal screen.