X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fterm.5.html;h=ef2781a67ebd94d9eff6594776aba51bdc7dc3d6;hb=7af63696972b12659832a1c3413d9ace9641c8f6;hp=221db40a87812da81fa7a88b6121e2dc006e0ecf;hpb=027d0c57c4c4d6690e8d8727888d3282dbe9aa86;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/term.5.html b/doc/html/man/term.5.html index 221db40a..ef2781a6 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/term.5.html +++ b/doc/html/man/term.5.html @@ -45,21 +45,17 @@ - -
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term - format of compiled term file. --
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term --
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Compiled terminfo descriptions are placed under the direc- tory /usr/share/terminfo. Two configurations are sup- ported (when building the ncurses libraries): @@ -92,8 +88,7 @@ existing directory, and hashed database otherwise. --
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The format has been chosen so that it will be the same on all hardware. An 8 or more bit byte is assumed, but no assumptions about byte ordering or sign extension are @@ -172,8 +167,7 @@ section. Each string is null terminated. --
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The previous section describes the conventional terminfo binary format. With some minor variations of the offsets (see PORTABILITY), the same binary format is used in all @@ -212,8 +206,7 @@ e.g., booleans, then numbers and finally strings. --
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Note that it is possible for setupterm to expect a differ- ent set of capabilities than are actually present in the file. Either the database may have been updated since @@ -238,8 +231,7 @@ sion of terminfo source compatibility issues. --
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As an example, here is a hex dump of the description for the Lear-Siegler ADM-3, a popular though rather stupid early terminal: @@ -276,25 +268,21 @@ --
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Some limitations: total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name field cannot exceed 128 bytes. --
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/usr/share/terminfo/*/* compiled terminal capability data base --
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curses(3x), terminfo(5). --
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Thomas E. Dickey extended terminfo format for ncurses 5.0 hashed database support for ncurses 5.6