ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210418

[ncurses.git] / man / tput.1

diff --git a/man/tput.1 b/man/tput.1
index 62fa9ebcb305e0919f5d25c40d7bf7e2e61feaa7..8e4a565842c403939dd104018cae08b112d0c232 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tput.1
+++ b/man/tput.1
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.61 2018/08/25 23:28:12 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.66 2021/03/06 15:56:23 tom Exp $
 .TH @TPUT@ 1 ""
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .ds n 1
@@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ named \fBinit\fP has a more well-established use.
 .PP
 Besides the special commands (e.g., \fBclear\fP),
 @TPUT@ treats certain terminfo capabilities specially:
-\fBlines\fP and \fBcolumns\fP.
+\fBlines\fP and \fBcols\fP.
 @TPUT@ calls \fBsetupterm\fP(3X) to obtain the terminal size:
 .bP
 first, it gets the size from the terminal database
@@ -546,6 +547,9 @@ A few platforms such as FreeBSD recognize termcap names rather
 than terminfo capability names in their respective \fBtput\fP commands.
 Since 2010, NetBSD's \fBtput\fP uses terminfo names.
 Before that, it (like FreeBSD) recognized termcap names.
+.IP
+Beginning in 2021, FreeBSD uses the ncurses \fBtput\fP,
+configured for both terminfo (tested first) and termcap (as a fallback).
 .PP
 Because (apparently) \fIall\fP of the certified Unix systems
 support the full set of capability names, the reasoning for documenting
@@ -571,7 +575,7 @@ However that part of X/Open Curses does not follow existing practice
 It assigns exit code 4 to \*(``invalid operand\*('',
 which may be the same as \fIunknown capability\fP.
 For instance, the source code for Solaris' xcurses uses the term
-\*(``invalid\*'' in this case.
+\*(``invalid\*('' in this case.
 .bP
 It assigns exit code 255 to a numeric variable that is not specified in
 the terminfo database.
@@ -589,8 +593,8 @@ to either ncurses or X/Open.
 \fBstty\fR(1),
 \fB@TABS@\fR(\*n),
 \fB@TSET@\fR(\*n),
-\fBterminfo\fR(5),
-\fBcurs_termcap\fR(3X).
+\fBcurs_termcap\fR(3X),
+\fBterminfo\fR(5).
 .PP
 This describes \fBncurses\fR
 version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).