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mailer.
A default <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> value will be set on a per-line basis by
- either <STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> (Linux and System-V-like UNIXes) or
+ either <STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> (e.g., System-V-like UNIXes) or
<STRONG>/etc/ttys</STRONG> (BSD UNIXes). This will nearly always suffice
for workstation and microcomputer consoles.
from your shell. These capability files are in a binary
format optimized for retrieval speed (unlike the old text-
based <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> format they replace); to examine an entry,
- you must use the <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1.html">infocmp(1)</A></STRONG> command. Invoke it as fol-
+ you must use the <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> command. Invoke it as fol-
lows:
- infocmp <EM>entry-name</EM>
+ infocmp <EM>entry</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>name</EM>
- where <EM>entry-name</EM> is the name of the type you wish to exam-
+ where <EM>entry</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>name</EM> is the name of the type you wish to exam-
ine (and the name of its capability file the subdirectory
of /usr/share/terminfo named for its first letter). This
command dumps a capability file in the text format
ters or digits. You need to avoid using punctuation char-
acters in root names, because they are used and inter-
preted as filenames and shell meta-characters (such as !,
- $, *, ? etc.) embedded in them may cause odd and unhelpful
- behavior. The slash (/), or any other character that may
- be interpreted by anyone's file system (\, $, [, ]), is
- especially dangerous (terminfo is platform-independent,
+ $, *, ?, etc.) embedded in them may cause odd and unhelp-
+ ful behavior. The slash (/), or any other character that
+ may be interpreted by anyone's file system (\, $, [, ]),
+ is especially dangerous (terminfo is platform-independent,
and choosing names with special characters could someday
make life difficult for users of a future port). The dot
(.) character is relatively safe as long as there is at
thus <STRONG>vt100</STRONG>, <STRONG>hp2621</STRONG>, <STRONG>wy50</STRONG>.
The root name for a PC-Unix console type should be the OS
- name, i.e. <STRONG>linux</STRONG>, <STRONG>bsdos</STRONG>, <STRONG>freebsd</STRONG>, <STRONG>netbsd</STRONG>. It should <EM>not</EM>
+ name, i.e., <STRONG>linux</STRONG>, <STRONG>bsdos</STRONG>, <STRONG>freebsd</STRONG>, <STRONG>netbsd</STRONG>. It should <EM>not</EM>
be <STRONG>console</STRONG> or any other generic that might cause confusion
in a multi-platform environment! If a model number fol-
lows, it should indicate either the OS release level or
the console driver release level.
- The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it doesn't
- fit one of the standard ANSI or vt100 types) should be the
- program name or a readily recognizable abbreviation of it
- (i.e. <STRONG>versaterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>ctrm</STRONG>).
+
+ The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it does
+ not fit one of the standard ANSI or vt100 types) should be
+ the program name or a readily recognizable abbreviation of
+ it (i.e., <STRONG>versaterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>ctrm</STRONG>).
Following the root name, you may add any reasonable number
of hyphen-separated feature suffixes.
another that has this suffix and uses magic cookies
to support multiple attributes.
- -am Enable auto-margin (right-margin wraparound)
+ -am Enable auto-margin (right-margin wraparound).
- -m Mono mode - suppress color support
+ -m Mono mode - suppress color support.
-na No arrow keys - termcap ignores arrow keys which are
actually there on the terminal, so the user can use
the arrow keys locally.
- -nam No auto-margin - suppress am capability
+ -nam No auto-margin - suppress am capability.
- -nl No labels - suppress soft labels
+ -nl No labels - suppress soft labels.
- -nsl No status line - suppress status line
+ -nsl No status line - suppress status line.
-pp Has a printer port which is used.
- -rv Terminal in reverse video mode (black on white)
+ -rv Terminal in reverse video mode (black on white).
-s Enable status line.
compiled terminal capability data base
/etc/inittab
- tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes).
+ tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes)
/etc/ttys
- tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes).
+ tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes)
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