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41 <H1 class="no-header">tset 1</H1>
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48 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
49 <STRONG>tset</STRONG>, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> - terminal initialization
52 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
53 <STRONG>tset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
55 <STRONG>reset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
59 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
61 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-tset---initialization">tset - initialization</a></H3><PRE>
62 <STRONG>Tset</STRONG> initializes terminals. <STRONG>Tset</STRONG> first determines the
63 type of terminal that you are using. This determination
64 is done as follows, using the first terminal type found.
66 1. The <STRONG>terminal</STRONG> argument specified on the command line.
68 2. The value of the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environmental variable.
70 3. (BSD systems only.) The terminal type associated with
71 the standard error output device in the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file.
72 (On System-V-like UNIXes and systems using that conven-
73 tion, <EM>getty</EM> does this job by setting <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> according to the
74 type passed to it by <EM>/etc/inittab</EM>.)
76 4. The default terminal type, "unknown".
78 If the terminal type was not specified on the command-
79 line, the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option mappings are then applied (see the
80 section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more information).
81 Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark
82 ("?"), the user is prompted for confirmation of the termi-
83 nal type. An empty response confirms the type, or,
84 another type can be entered to specify a new type. Once
85 the terminal type has been determined, the terminfo entry
86 for the terminal is retrieved. If no terminfo entry is
87 found for the type, the user is prompted for another ter-
90 Once the terminfo entry is retrieved, the window size,
91 backspace, interrupt and line kill characters (among many
92 other things) are set and the terminal and tab initializa-
93 tion strings are sent to the standard error output.
94 Finally, if the erase, interrupt and line kill characters
95 have changed, or are not set to their default values,
96 their values are displayed to the standard error output.
97 Use the <STRONG>-c</STRONG> or <STRONG>-w</STRONG> option to select only the window sizing
98 versus the other initialization. If neither option is
99 given, both are assumed.
102 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-reset---reinitialization">reset - reinitialization</a></H3><PRE>
103 When invoked as <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> sets cooked and echo modes,
104 turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline transla-
105 tion and resets any unset special characters to their
106 default values before doing the terminal initialization
107 described above. This is useful after a program dies
108 leaving a terminal in an abnormal state. Note, you may
111 <STRONG><LF>reset<LF></STRONG>
113 (the line-feed character is normally control-J) to get the
114 terminal to work, as carriage-return may no longer work in
115 the abnormal state. Also, the terminal will often not
119 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H2><PRE>
120 The options are as follows:
122 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> Set control characters and modes.
124 <STRONG>-e</STRONG> Set the erase character to <EM>ch</EM>.
126 <STRONG>-I</STRONG> Do not send the terminal or tab initialization
127 strings to the terminal.
129 <STRONG>-i</STRONG> Set the interrupt character to <EM>ch</EM>.
131 <STRONG>-k</STRONG> Set the line kill character to <EM>ch</EM>.
133 <STRONG>-m</STRONG> Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
134 See the section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more infor-
137 <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt
138 and line kill characters. Normally <STRONG>tset</STRONG> displays the
139 values for control characters which differ from the
140 system's default values.
142 <STRONG>-q</STRONG> The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
143 put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
144 The option `-' by itself is equivalent but archaic.
146 <STRONG>-r</STRONG> Print the terminal type to the standard error output.
148 <STRONG>-s</STRONG> Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize
149 the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> to the standard output.
150 See the section <STRONG>SETTING</STRONG> <STRONG>THE</STRONG> <STRONG>ENVIRONMENT</STRONG> for details.
152 <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
155 <STRONG>-w</STRONG> Resize the window to match the size deduced via
156 <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>. Normally this has no effect, unless
157 <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> is not able to detect the window size.
159 The arguments for the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG> options may either be
160 entered as actual characters or by using the `hat' nota-
161 tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as "^H" or "^h".
164 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
165 It is often desirable to enter the terminal type and
166 information about the terminal's capabilities into the
167 shell's environment. This is done using the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option.
169 When the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option is specified, the commands to enter the
170 information into the shell's environment are written to
171 the standard output. If the <STRONG>SHELL</STRONG> environmental variable
172 ends in "csh", the commands are for <STRONG>csh</STRONG>, otherwise, they
173 are for <STRONG>sh</STRONG>. Note, the <STRONG>csh</STRONG> commands set and unset the
174 shell variable <STRONG>noglob</STRONG>, leaving it unset. The following
175 line in the <STRONG>.login</STRONG> or <STRONG>.profile</STRONG> files will initialize the
176 environment correctly:
178 eval `tset -s options ... `
181 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></H2><PRE>
182 When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the
183 current system information is incorrect) the terminal type
184 derived from the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file or the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environmental
185 variable is often something generic like <STRONG>network</STRONG>, <STRONG>dialup</STRONG>,
186 or <STRONG>unknown</STRONG>. When <STRONG>tset</STRONG> is used in a startup script it is
187 often desirable to provide information about the type of
188 terminal used on such ports.
190 The purpose of the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option is to map from some set of
191 conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell <STRONG>tset</STRONG> "If
192 I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on
193 that kind of terminal".
195 The argument to the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option consists of an optional port
196 type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specifi-
197 cation, an optional colon (":") character and a terminal
198 type. The port type is a string (delimited by either the
199 operator or the colon character). The operator may be any
200 combination of ">", "<", "@", and "!"; ">" means greater
201 than, "<" means less than, "@" means equal to and "!"
202 inverts the sense of the test. The baud rate is specified
203 as a number and is compared with the speed of the standard
204 error output (which should be the control terminal). The
205 terminal type is a string.
207 If the terminal type is not specified on the command line,
208 the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> mappings are applied to the terminal type. If the
209 port type and baud rate match the mapping, the terminal
210 type specified in the mapping replaces the current type.
211 If more than one mapping is specified, the first applica-
214 For example, consider the following mapping:
215 <STRONG>dialup>9600:vt100</STRONG>. The port type is dialup , the operator
216 is >, the baud rate specification is 9600, and the termi-
217 nal type is vt100. The result of this mapping is to spec-
218 ify that if the terminal type is <STRONG>dialup</STRONG>, and the baud rate
219 is greater than 9600 baud, a terminal type of <STRONG>vt100</STRONG> will
222 If no baud rate is specified, the terminal type will match
223 any baud rate. If no port type is specified, the terminal
224 type will match any port type. For example, <STRONG>-m</STRONG>
225 <STRONG>dialup:vt100</STRONG> <STRONG>-m</STRONG> <STRONG>:?xterm</STRONG> will cause any dialup port,
226 regardless of baud rate, to match the terminal type vt100,
227 and any non-dialup port type to match the terminal type
228 ?xterm. Note, because of the leading question mark, the
229 user will be queried on a default port as to whether they
230 are actually using an xterm terminal.
232 No whitespace characters are permitted in the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option
233 argument. Also, to avoid problems with meta-characters,
234 it is suggested that the entire <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option argument be
235 placed within single quote characters, and that <STRONG>csh</STRONG> users
236 insert a backslash character ("\") before any exclamation
240 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
241 The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command appeared in BSD 3.0. The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> imple-
242 mentation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources for
243 a terminfo environment by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyr-
247 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></H2><PRE>
248 Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications
249 Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents
250 <STRONG>tset</STRONG> or <STRONG>reset</STRONG>.
252 The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility has been provided for backward-compati-
253 bility with BSD environments (under most modern UNIXes,
254 <STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> and <STRONG>getty(1)</STRONG> can set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> appropriately for
255 each dial-up line; this obviates what was <STRONG>tset</STRONG>'s most
256 important use). This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD
257 tset, with a few exceptions specified here.
259 The <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option of BSD tset no longer works; it prints an
260 error message to stderr and dies. The <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option only sets
261 <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, not <STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG>. Both of these changes are because the
262 <STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG> variable is no longer supported under terminfo-
263 based <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG>, which makes <STRONG>tset</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> useless (we made it die
264 noisily rather than silently induce lossage).
266 There was an undocumented 4.4BSD feature that invoking
267 tset via a link named `TSET` (or via any other name begin-
268 ning with an upper-case letter) set the terminal to use
269 upper-case only. This feature has been omitted.
271 The <STRONG>-A</STRONG>, <STRONG>-E</STRONG>, <STRONG>-h</STRONG>, <STRONG>-u</STRONG> and <STRONG>-v</STRONG> options were deleted from the
272 <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility in 4.4BSD. None of them were documented in
273 4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at best. The <STRONG>-a</STRONG>,
274 <STRONG>-d</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-p</STRONG> options are similarly not documented or useful,
275 but were retained as they appear to be in widespread use.
276 It is strongly recommended that any usage of these three
277 options be changed to use the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option instead. The <STRONG>-a</STRONG>,
278 <STRONG>-d</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-p</STRONG> options are therefore omitted from the usage
281 Very old systems, e.g., 3BSD, used a different terminal
282 driver which was replaced in 4BSD in the early 1980s. To
283 accommodate these older systems, the 4BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG> provided a
284 <STRONG>-n</STRONG> option to specify that the new terminal driver should
285 be used. This implementation does not provide that
288 It is still permissible to specify the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG>
289 options without arguments, although it is strongly recom-
290 mended that such usage be fixed to explicitly specify the
293 As of 4.4BSD, executing <STRONG>tset</STRONG> as <STRONG>reset</STRONG> no longer implies
294 the <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> option. Also, the interaction between the - option
295 and the <EM>terminal</EM> argument in some historic implementations
296 of <STRONG>tset</STRONG> has been removed.
299 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
300 The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command uses these environment variables:
303 tells <STRONG>tset</STRONG> whether to initialize <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> using <STRONG>sh</STRONG> or <STRONG>csh</STRONG>
306 TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is
307 distinct, though many are similar.
310 may denote the location of a termcap database. If it
311 is not an absolute pathname, e.g., begins with a `/',
312 <STRONG>tset</STRONG> removes the variable from the environment before
313 looking for the terminal description.
316 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
318 system port name to terminal type mapping database
322 terminal capability database
325 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
326 <STRONG>csh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>tty(4)</STRONG>,
327 <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ttys(5)</STRONG>, <STRONG>environ(7)</STRONG>
329 This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20160514).
333 <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
337 <li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
338 <li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
339 <li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
341 <li><a href="#h3-tset---initialization">tset - initialization</a></li>
342 <li><a href="#h3-reset---reinitialization">reset - reinitialization</a></li>
345 <li><a href="#h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li>
346 <li><a href="#h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
347 <li><a href="#h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></li>
348 <li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
349 <li><a href="#h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></li>
350 <li><a href="#h2-ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
351 <li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li>
352 <li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>