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Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]42<PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]43<STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]49<H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]50 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> - the <EM>terminfo</EM> entry-description compiler
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Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]54<H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
55 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> [<STRONG>-01CDGIKLNTUVacfgrstx</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>] [<STRONG>-o</STRONG> <EM>dir</EM>] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <EM>sub-</EM>
56 <EM>set</EM>] [<STRONG>-v</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-w</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] <EM>file</EM>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]57
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59</PRE>
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]60<H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
61 The <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command translates a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> file from source
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]62 format into compiled format. The compiled format is nec-
63 essary for use with the library routines in <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
64
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]65 As described in <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>, the database may be either a
66 directory tree (one file per terminal entry) or a hashed
67 database (one record per entry). The <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command writes
68 only one type of entry, depending on how it was built:
69
70 <STRONG>o</STRONG> For directory trees, the top-level directory, e.g.,
71 /usr/share/terminfo, specifies the location of the
72 database.
73
74 <STRONG>o</STRONG> For hashed databases, a filename is needed. If the
75 given file is not found by that name, but can be found
76 by adding the suffix ".db", then that is used.
77
78 The default name for the hashed database is the same
79 as the default directory name (only adding a ".db"
80 suffix).
81
82 In either case (directory or hashed database), <STRONG>tic</STRONG> will
83 create the container if it does not exist. For a direc-
84 tory, this would be the "terminfo" leaf, versus a "ter-
85 minfo.db" file.
86
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]87 The results are normally placed in the system terminfo
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]88 database <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>. The compiled terminal
89 description can be placed in a different terminfo data-
90 base. There are two ways to achieve this:
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]91
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]92 <STRONG>o</STRONG> First, you may override the system default either by
93 using the <STRONG>-o</STRONG> option, or by setting the variable <STRONG>TER-</STRONG>
94 <STRONG>MINFO</STRONG> in your shell environment to a valid database
95 location.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]96
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]97 <STRONG>o</STRONG> Secondly, if <STRONG>tic</STRONG> cannot write in <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>
98 or the location specified using your TERMINFO vari-
99 able, it looks for the directory <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> (or
100 hashed database <EM>$HOME/.terminfo.db)</EM>; if that location
101 exists, the entry is placed there.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]102
103 Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]104 in succession
105
106 <STRONG>o</STRONG> a location specified with the TERMINFO environment
107 variable,
108
109 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>,
110
111 <STRONG>o</STRONG> directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS environment
112 variable,
113
114 <STRONG>o</STRONG> a compiled-in list of directories
115 (/usr/local/ncurses/share/terminfo:/usr/share/ter-
116 minfo), and
117
118 <STRONG>o</STRONG> the system terminfo database (<EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>).
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121</PRE>
122<H3><a name="h3-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H3><PRE>
123 <STRONG>-0</STRONG> restricts the output to a single line
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]124
125 <STRONG>-1</STRONG> restricts the output to a single column
126
127 <STRONG>-a</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to retain commented-out capabilities
128 rather than discarding them. Capabilities are com-
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]129 mented by prefixing them with a period. This sets
130 the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option, because it treats the commented-out
131 entries as user-defined names. If the source is
132 termcap, accept the 2-character names required by
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]133 version 6. Otherwise these are ignored.
134
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]135 <STRONG>-C</STRONG> Force source translation to termcap format. Note:
136 this differs from the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> in
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]137 that it does not merely translate capability names,
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]138 but also translates terminfo strings to termcap
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]139 format. Capabilities that are not translatable are
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]140 left in the entry under their terminfo names but
141 commented out with two preceding dots. The actual
142 format used incorporates some improvements for
143 escaped characters from terminfo format. For a
144 stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the <STRONG>-K</STRONG>
145 option.
146
147 If this is combined with <STRONG>-c</STRONG>, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> makes additional
148 checks to report cases where the terminfo values do
149 not have an exact equivalent in termcap form. For
150 example:
151
152 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>sgr</STRONG> usually will not convert, because termcap
153 lacks the ability to work with more than two
154 parameters, and because termcap lacks many of
155 the arithmetic/logical operators used in ter-
156 minfo.
157
158 <STRONG>o</STRONG> capabilities with more than one delay or with
159 delays before the end of the string will not
160 convert completely.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]161
162 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to only check <EM>file</EM> for errors, including
163 syntax problems and bad use links. If you specify
164 <STRONG>-C</STRONG> (<STRONG>-I</STRONG>) with this option, the code will print warn-
165 ings about entries which, after use resolution, are
166 more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a fixed
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]167 buffer length in older termcap libraries, as well
168 as buggy checking for the buffer length (and a doc-
169 umented limit in terminfo), these entries may cause
170 core dumps with other implementations.
171
172 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> checks string capabilities to ensure that those
173 with parameters will be valid expressions. It does
174 this check only for the predefined string capabili-
175 ties; those which are defined with the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option
176 are ignored.
177
178 <STRONG>-D</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to print the database locations that it
179 knows about, and exit. The first location shown is
180 the one to which it would write compiled terminal
181 descriptions. If <STRONG>tic</STRONG> is not able to find a
182 writable database location according to the rules
183 summarized above, it will print a diagnostic and
184 exit with an error rather than printing a list of
185 database locations.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]186
187 <STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>
188 Limit writes and translations to the following
189 comma-separated list of terminals. If any name or
190 alias of a terminal matches one of the names in the
191 list, the entry will be written or translated as
192 normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
193 it. The option value is interpreted as a file con-
194 taining the list if it contains a '/'. (Note:
195 depending on how tic was compiled, this option may
196 require <STRONG>-I</STRONG> or <STRONG>-C</STRONG>.)
197
198 <STRONG>-f</STRONG> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
199 if/then/else/endif expressions indented for read-
200 ability.
201
202 <STRONG>-G</STRONG> Display constant literals in decimal form rather
203 than their character equivalents.
204
205 <STRONG>-g</STRONG> Display constant character literals in quoted form
206 rather than their decimal equivalents.
207
208 <STRONG>-I</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format.
209
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]210 <STRONG>-K</STRONG> Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to
211 termcap format, e.g., "\s" for space.
212
213 <STRONG>-L</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format using
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]214 the long C variable names listed in &lt;<STRONG>term.h</STRONG>&gt;
215
216 <STRONG>-N</STRONG> Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating
217 from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a num-
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]218 ber of assumptions about the defaults of string
219 capabilities <STRONG>reset1_string</STRONG>, <STRONG>carriage_return</STRONG>, <STRONG>cur-</STRONG>
220 <STRONG>sor_left</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_down</STRONG>, <STRONG>scroll_forward</STRONG>, <STRONG>tab</STRONG>, <STRONG>new-</STRONG>
221 <STRONG>line</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_backspace</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_left</STRONG>, and <STRONG>key_down</STRONG>, then
222 attempts to use obsolete termcap capabilities to
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]223 deduce correct values. It also normally suppresses
224 output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as <STRONG>bs</STRONG>.
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]225 This option forces a more literal translation that
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]226 also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
227
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]228 <STRONG>-o</STRONG><EM>dir</EM> Write compiled entries to given database location.
229 Overrides the TERMINFO environment variable.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]230
231 <STRONG>-R</STRONG><EM>subset</EM>
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]232 Restrict output to a given subset. This option is
233 for use with archaic versions of terminfo like
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]234 those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that do not support
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]235 the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and out-
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]236 right broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]237 extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]238 subsets are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and
239 "AIX"; see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for details.
240
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]241 <STRONG>-r</STRONG> Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining
242 tc capabilities) even when doing translation to
243 termcap format. This may be needed if you are pre-
244 paring a termcap file for a termcap library (such
245 as GNU termcap through version 1.3 or BSD termcap
246 through 4.3BSD) that does not handle multiple tc
247 capabilities per entry.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]248
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]249 <STRONG>-s</STRONG> Summarize the compile by showing the database loca-
250 tion into which entries are written, and the number
251 of entries which are compiled.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]252
253 <STRONG>-T</STRONG> eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text.
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]254 This is mainly useful for testing and analysis,
255 since the compiled descriptions are limited (e.g.,
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]256 1023 for termcap, 4096 for terminfo).
257
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]258 <STRONG>-t</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to discard commented-out capabilities.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]259 Normally when translating from terminfo to termcap,
260 untranslatable capabilities are commented-out.
261
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]262 <STRONG>-U</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to not post-process the data after parsing
263 the source file. Normally, it infers data which is
264 commonly missing in older terminfo data, or in term-
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]265 caps.
266
267 <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
268 program, and exits.
269
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]270 <STRONG>-v</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies that (verbose) output be written to stan-
271 dard error trace information showing <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s progress.
272 The optional parameter <EM>n</EM> is a number from 1 to 10,
273 inclusive, indicating the desired level of detail of
274 information. If <EM>n</EM> is omitted, the default level is
275 1. If <EM>n</EM> is specified and greater than 1, the level
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]276 of detail is increased.
277
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]278 The debug flag levels are as follows:
279
280 1 Names of files created and linked
281
282 2 Information related to the "use" facility
283
284 3 Statistics from the hashing algorithm
285
286 5 String-table memory allocations
287
288 7 Entries into the string-table
289
290 8 List of tokens encountered by scanner
291
292 9 All values computed in construction of the
293 hash table
294
295 If the debug level <EM>n</EM> is not given, it is taken to be
296 one.
297
298 <STRONG>-w</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies the width of the output. The parameter is
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]299 optional. If it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
300
301 <STRONG>-x</STRONG> Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That is,
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]302 if you supply a capability name which <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]303 recognize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]304 string) from the syntax and make an extended table
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]305 entry for that. User-defined capability strings
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]306 whose name begins with "k" are treated as function
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]307 keys.
308
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]309
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]310</PRE>
311<H3><a name="h3-PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a></H3><PRE>
312 <EM>file</EM> contains one or more <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> terminal descriptions
313 in source format [see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>]. Each descrip-
314 tion in the file describes the capabilities of a
315 particular terminal.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]316
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]317 If <EM>file</EM> is "-", then the data is read from the
318 standard input. The <EM>file</EM> parameter may also be the
319 path of a character-device.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]320
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]321
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]322</PRE>
323<H3><a name="h3-PROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></H3><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]324 All but one of the capabilities recognized by <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are doc-
325 umented in <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. The exception is the <STRONG>use</STRONG> capabil-
326 ity.
327
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]328 When a <STRONG>use</STRONG>=<EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> field is discovered in a terminal
329 entry currently being compiled, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> reads in the binary
330 from <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG> to complete the entry. (Entries
331 created from <EM>file</EM> will be used first. <STRONG>tic</STRONG> duplicates the
332 capabilities in <EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> for the current entry, with the
333 exception of those capabilities that explicitly are
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]334 defined in the current entry.
335
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]336 When an entry, e.g., <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>, contains a
337 <STRONG>use=</STRONG><EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> field, any canceled capabilities in
338 <EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> must also appear in <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG> before <STRONG>use=</STRONG>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]339 for these capabilities to be canceled in <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>.
340
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]341 Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name
342 field cannot exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding
343 the maximum alias length (32 characters on systems with
344 long filenames, 14 characters otherwise) will be truncated
345 to the maximum alias length and a warning message will be
346 printed.
347
348
349</PRE>
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]350<H2><a name="h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]351 There is some evidence that historic <STRONG>tic</STRONG> implementations
352 treated description fields with no whitespace in them as
353 additional aliases or short names. This <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not do
354 that, but it does warn when description fields may be
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]355 treated that way and check them for dangerous characters.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]356
357
358</PRE>
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]359<H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
360 Unlike the SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command, this implementation can actu-
361 ally compile termcap sources. In fact, entries in ter-
362 minfo and termcap syntax can be mixed in a single source
363 file. See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for the list of termcap names taken
364 to be equivalent to terminfo names.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]365
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]366 The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution
367 rules for <STRONG>use</STRONG> capabilities. This implementation of <STRONG>tic</STRONG>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]368 will find <STRONG>use</STRONG> targets anywhere in the source file, or any-
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]369 where in the file tree rooted at <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> (if <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is
370 defined), or in the user's <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> database (if it
371 exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file tree
372 of compiled entries.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]373
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]374 The error messages from this <STRONG>tic</STRONG> have the same format as
375 GNU C error messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]376 compile facility.
377
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]378 The <STRONG>-0</STRONG>, <STRONG>-1</STRONG>, <STRONG>-C</STRONG>, <STRONG>-G</STRONG>, <STRONG>-I</STRONG>, <STRONG>-N</STRONG>, <STRONG>-R</STRONG>, <STRONG>-T</STRONG>, <STRONG>-V</STRONG>, <STRONG>-a</STRONG>, <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-f</STRONG>, <STRONG>-g</STRONG>,
379 <STRONG>-o</STRONG>, <STRONG>-r</STRONG>, <STRONG>-s</STRONG>, <STRONG>-t</STRONG> and <STRONG>-x</STRONG> options are not supported under
380 SVr4. The SVr4 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> mode does not report bad use links.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]381
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]382 System V does not compile entries to or read entries from
383 your <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> database unless TERMINFO is explic-
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]384 itly set to it.
385
386
387</PRE>
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]388<H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]389 <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo/?/*</STRONG>
390 Compiled terminal description database.
391
392
393</PRE>
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]394<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
395 <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>,
396 <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>. <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]397
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]398 This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20150808).
399
400
401</PRE>
402<H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
403 Eric S. Raymond &lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt; and
404 Thomas E. Dickey &lt;dickey@invisible-island.net&gt;
Amit Daniel Kachhape6a01f52011-07-20 11:45:59 +0530[diff] [blame]405
406
407
408 <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
409</PRE>
Steve Kondikae271bc2015-11-15 02:50:53 +0100[diff] [blame]410<div class="nav">
411<ul>
412<li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
413<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
414<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
415<ul>
416<li><a href="#h3-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li>
417<li><a href="#h3-PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a></li>
418<li><a href="#h3-PROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></li>
419</ul>
420</li>
421<li><a href="#h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></li>
422<li><a href="#h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></li>
423<li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li>
424<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
425<li><a href="#h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></li>
426</ul>
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