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<PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG> User commands <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
in a different terminfo database. There are two ways to achieve this:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> First, you may override the system default either by using the <STRONG>-o</STRONG>
- option, or by setting the variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> in your shell
+ option, or by setting the variable <EM>TERMINFO</EM> in your shell
environment to a valid database location.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Secondly, if <STRONG>tic</STRONG> cannot write in <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM> or the
- location specified using your TERMINFO variable, it looks for the
+ location specified using your <EM>TERMINFO</EM> variable, it looks for the
directory <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> (or hashed database <EM>$HOME/.terminfo.db)</EM>;
if that location exists, the entry is placed there.
Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check in
succession
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> a location specified with the TERMINFO environment variable,
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> a location specified with the <EM>TERMINFO</EM> environment variable,
<STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>,
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS environment variable,
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> directories listed in the <EM>TERMINFO</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>DIRS</EM> environment variable,
<STRONG>o</STRONG> a compiled-in list of directories (/usr/share/terminfo), and
goes into further detail.
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-A
LIASES">ALIASES</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-A
liases">Aliases</a></H3><PRE>
This is the same program as infotocap and captoinfo; usually those are
linked to, or copied from this program:
<STRONG>-I</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format.
- <STRONG>-K</STRONG> Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to termcap format,
+ <STRONG>-K</STRONG> Suppress some longstanding <EM>ncurses</EM> extensions to termcap format,
e.g., "\s" for space.
<STRONG>-L</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format using the long C
also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
<STRONG>-o</STRONG><EM>dir</EM> Write compiled entries to given database location. Overrides
- the TERMINFO environment variable.
+ the <EM>TERMINFO</EM> environment variable.
<STRONG>-Q</STRONG><EM>n</EM> Rather than show source in terminfo (text) format, print the
compiled (binary) format in hexadecimal or base64 form,
file. Normally, it infers data which is commonly missing in older
terminfo data, or in termcaps.
- <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and
+ <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of <EM>ncurses</EM> which was used in this program, and
exits.
<STRONG>-v</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error trace
The optional parameter <EM>n</EM> is a number from 1 to 9, inclusive,
indicating the desired level of detail of information.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> If ncurses is built without tracing support, the optional
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If <EM>ncurses</EM> is built without tracing support, the optional
parameter is ignored.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> If <EM>n</EM> is omitted, the default level is 1.
<STRONG>-x</STRONG> Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined (see <STRONG><A HREF="user_caps.5.html">user_caps(5)</A></STRONG>).
That is, if you supply a capability name which <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not
- recognize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or string) from
+ recognize, it will infer its type (Boolean, number or string) from
the syntax and make an extended table entry for that. User-
defined capability strings whose name begins with "k" are treated
as function keys.
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-P
ARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-P
arameters">Parameters</a></H3><PRE>
<EM>file</EM> contains one or more <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> terminal descriptions in source
format [see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>]. Each description in the file
describes the capabilities of a particular terminal.
The <EM>file</EM> parameter may also be the path of a character-device.
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-P
ROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-P
rocessing">Processing</a></H3><PRE>
All but one of the capabilities recognized by <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are documented in
<STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. The exception is the <STRONG>use</STRONG> capability.
The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution rules for <STRONG>use</STRONG>
capabilities. This implementation of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> will find <STRONG>use</STRONG> targets
anywhere in the source file, or anywhere in the file tree rooted at
- <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> (if <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is defined), or in the user's <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>
+ <EM>TERMINFO</EM> (if <EM>TERMINFO</EM> is defined), or in the user's <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>
database (if it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file
tree of compiled entries.
<STRONG>-0</STRONG> <STRONG>-1</STRONG> <STRONG>-C</STRONG> <STRONG>-G</STRONG> <STRONG>-I</STRONG> <STRONG>-N</STRONG> <STRONG>-R</STRONG> <STRONG>-T</STRONG> <STRONG>-V</STRONG> <STRONG>-a</STRONG> <STRONG>-e</STRONG> <STRONG>-f</STRONG> <STRONG>-g</STRONG> <STRONG>-o</STRONG> <STRONG>-r</STRONG> <STRONG>-s</STRONG> <STRONG>-t</STRONG> <STRONG>-x</STRONG>
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> The NetBSD <STRONG>tic</STRONG> supports a few of the ncurses options
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The NetBSD <STRONG>tic</STRONG> supports a few of the <EM>ncurses</EM> options
<STRONG>-a</STRONG> <STRONG>-o</STRONG> <STRONG>-x</STRONG>
The SVr4 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> mode does not report bad "use=" links.
System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your
- <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> database unless TERMINFO is explicitly set to it.
+ <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> database unless <EM>TERMINFO</EM> is explicitly set to it.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) provides a brief description of <STRONG>tic</STRONG>. It
lists one option: <STRONG>-c</STRONG>. The omission of <STRONG>-v</STRONG> is unexpected. The change
- history states that the description is derived from Tru64 UNIX.
- According to its manual pages, that system also supported the <STRONG>-v</STRONG>
- option.
-
- Shortly after Issue 7 was released, Tru64 was discontinued. As of
- 2019, the surviving implementations of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are SVr4 (AIX, HP-UX and
- Solaris), ncurses and NetBSD curses. The SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> programs all support
- the <STRONG>-v</STRONG> option. The NetBSD <STRONG>tic</STRONG> program follows X/Open's documentation,
+ history states that the description is derived from Tru64. According
+ to its manual pages, that system also supported the <STRONG>-v</STRONG> option.
+
+ Shortly after Issue 7 was released, Tru64 was discontinued. As of
+ 2019, the surviving implementations of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are SVr4 (AIX, HP-UX and
+ Solaris), <EM>ncurses</EM> and NetBSD curses. The SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> programs all support
+ the <STRONG>-v</STRONG> option. The NetBSD <STRONG>tic</STRONG> program follows X/Open's documentation,
omitting the <STRONG>-v</STRONG> option.
- The X/Open rationale states that some implementations of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> read
- terminal descriptions from the standard input if the <EM>file</EM> parameter is
- omitted. None of these implementations do that. Further, it comments
- that some may choose to read from "./terminfo.src" but that is
- obsolescent behavior from SVr2, and is not (for example) a documented
+ The X/Open rationale states that some implementations of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> read
+ terminal descriptions from the standard input if the <EM>file</EM> parameter is
+ omitted. None of these implementations do that. Further, it comments
+ that some may choose to read from "./terminfo.src" but that is
+ obsolescent behavior from SVr2, and is not (for example) a documented
feature of SVr3.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
- System V Release 2 provided a <STRONG>tic</STRONG> utility. It accepted a single
- option: <STRONG>-v</STRONG> (optionally followed by a number). According to Ross
+ System V Release 2 provided a <STRONG>tic</STRONG> utility. It accepted a single
+ option: <STRONG>-v</STRONG> (optionally followed by a number). According to Ross
Ridge's comment in <EM>mytinfo</EM>, this version of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> was unable to represent
cancelled capabilities.
- System V Release 3 provided a different <STRONG>tic</STRONG> utility, written by Pavel
- Curtis, (originally named "compile" in <EM>pcurses</EM>). This added an option
- <STRONG>-c</STRONG> to check the file for errors, with the caveat that errors in "use="
- links would not be reported. System V Release 3 documented a few
- warning messages which did not appear in <EM>pcurses</EM>. While the program
- itself was changed little as development continued with System V
- Release 4, the table of capabilities grew from 180 (<EM>pcurses</EM>) to 464
+ System V Release 3 provided a different <STRONG>tic</STRONG> utility, written by Pavel
+ Curtis, (originally named "compile" in <EM>pcurses</EM>). This added an option
+ <STRONG>-c</STRONG> to check the file for errors, with the caveat that errors in "use="
+ links would not be reported. System V Release 3 documented a few
+ warning messages which did not appear in <EM>pcurses</EM>. While the program
+ itself was changed little as development continued with System V
+ Release 4, the table of capabilities grew from 180 (<EM>pcurses</EM>) to 464
(Solaris).
- In early development of ncurses (1993), Zeyd Ben-Halim used the table
- from <EM>mytinfo</EM> to extend the <EM>pcurses</EM> table to 469 capabilities (456
- matched SVr4, 8 were only in SVr4, 13 were not in SVr4). Of those 13,
- 11 were ultimately discarded (perhaps to match the draft of X/Open
- Curses). The exceptions were <STRONG>memory_lock_above</STRONG> and <STRONG>memory_unlock</STRONG> (see
+ In early development of <EM>ncurses</EM> (1993), Zeyd Ben-Halim used the table
+ from <EM>mytinfo</EM> to extend the <EM>pcurses</EM> table to 469 capabilities (456
+ matched SVr4, 8 were only in SVr4, 13 were not in SVr4). Of those 13,
+ 11 were ultimately discarded (perhaps to match the draft of X/Open
+ Curses). The exceptions were <STRONG>memory_lock_above</STRONG> and <STRONG>memory_unlock</STRONG> (see
<STRONG><A HREF="user_caps.5.html">user_caps(5)</A></STRONG>).
- Eric Raymond incorporated parts of <EM>mytinfo</EM> into ncurses to implement
- the termcap-to-terminfo source conversion, and extended that to begin
+ Eric Raymond incorporated parts of <EM>mytinfo</EM> into <EM>ncurses</EM> to implement
+ the termcap-to-terminfo source conversion, and extended that to begin
development of the corresponding terminfo-to-termcap source conversion,
- Thomas Dickey completed that development over the course of several
+ Thomas Dickey completed that development over the course of several
years.
- In 1999, Thomas Dickey added the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option to support user-defined
+ In 1999, Thomas Dickey added the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option to support user-defined
capabilities.
- In 2010, Roy Marples provided a <STRONG>tic</STRONG> program and terminfo library for
- NetBSD. That implementation adapts several features from ncurses,
+ In 2010, Roy Marples provided a <STRONG>tic</STRONG> program and terminfo library for
+ NetBSD. That implementation adapts several features from <EM>ncurses</EM>,
including <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option.
- The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to check for problems in the terminfo source
+ The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to check for problems in the terminfo source
file. Continued development provides additional checks:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>pcurses</EM> had 8 warnings
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 1996 had 16 warnings
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>ncurses</EM> in 1996 had 16 warnings
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Solaris (SVr4) curses has 28 warnings
<STRONG>o</STRONG> NetBSD tic in 2019 has 19 warnings.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 2019 has 96 warnings
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>ncurses</EM> in 2019 has 96 warnings
- The checking done in ncurses' <STRONG>tic</STRONG> helps with the conversion to termcap,
+ The checking done in <EM>ncurses</EM>' <STRONG>tic</STRONG> helps with the conversion to termcap,
as well as pointing out errors and inconsistencies. It is also used to
- ensure consistency with the user-defined capabilities. There are 527
- distinct capabilities in ncurses' terminal database; 128 of those are
+ ensure consistency with the user-defined capabilities. There are 527
+ distinct capabilities in <EM>ncurses</EM>' terminal database; 128 of those are
user-defined.
-ncurses 6.4 2023-1
1-25 <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-1
2-30 <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
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