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-<H1 class="no-header">tic 1m 2023-10-14 ncurses 6.4 User commands</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG> User commands <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>tic</STRONG> [<STRONG>-01CDGIKLNTUVWacfgqrstx</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>] [<STRONG>-o</STRONG> <EM>dir</EM>] [<STRONG>-Q</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <EM>subset</EM>]
- [<STRONG>-v</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-w</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] <EM>file</EM>
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> [<STRONG>-01acCDfgGIKLNqrstTUVWx</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>terminal-type-list</EM>] [<STRONG>-o</STRONG> <EM>dir</EM>] [<STRONG>-Q</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]]
+ [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <EM>subset</EM>] [<STRONG>-v</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-w</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] <EM>file</EM>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> When invoked as captoinfo, tic sets the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option.
-</PRE><H
3><a name="h3-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H3><PRE>
+</PRE><H
2><a name="h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>-0</STRONG> restricts the output to a single line
<STRONG>-1</STRONG> restricts the output to a single column
summarized above, it will print a diagnostic and exit with an
error rather than printing a list of database locations.
- <STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>
- Limit writes and translations to the following comma-separated
- list of terminals. If any name or alias of a terminal matches
- one of the names in the list, the entry will be written or
+ <STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>list</EM>
+ Limit writes and translations to the comma-separated <EM>list</EM> of
+ terminal types. If any name or alias of a terminal matches one
+ of the names in the list, the entry will be written or
translated as normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
it. The option value is interpreted as a file containing the
list if it contains a '/'. (Note: depending on how tic was
<STRONG>-w</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies the width of the output. The parameter is optional. If
it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
- <STRONG>-x</STRONG> Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined (see <STRONG>user_caps(5)</STRONG>).
+ <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
the syntax and make an extended table entry for that. User-
<STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG> before <STRONG>use=</STRONG> for these capabilities to be canceled in
<STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>.
- Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name field cannot
- exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding the maximum alias length
- (32 characters on systems with long filenames, 14 characters otherwise)
- will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning message
- will be printed.
+ Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes in the legacy storage
+ format, or 32768 using the extended number format. The name field
+ cannot exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding the maximum alias
+ length (32 characters on systems with long filenames, 14 characters
+ otherwise) will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning
+ message will be printed.
-</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
- Ridge's comment in <EM>mytinfo</EM>, this version of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> was unable to represent
- cancelled capabilities.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
+ <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>
+ compiled terminal description database
- 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
- <STRONG><A HREF="user_caps.5.html">user_caps(5)</A></STRONG>).
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
+ There is some evidence that historic <STRONG>tic</STRONG> implementations treated
+ description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or
+ short names. This <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not do that, but it does warn when
+ description fields may be treated that way and check them for dangerous
+ characters.
- Eric Raymond incorporated parts of <EM>mytinfo</EM> into ncurses 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
- years.
- In 1999, Thomas Dickey added the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option to support user-defined
- capabilities.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
+ Unlike the SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command, this implementation can actually compile
+ termcap sources. In fact, entries in terminfo and termcap syntax can
+ be mixed in a single source file. See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for the list of
+ termcap names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.
- In 2010, Roy Marples provided a <STRONG>tic</STRONG> program and terminfo library for
- NetBSD. That implementation adapts several features from ncurses,
- including <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option.
+ 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>
+ database (if it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file
+ tree of compiled entries.
- The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to check for problems in the terminfo source
- file. Continued development provides additional checks:
+ The error messages from this <STRONG>tic</STRONG> have the same format as GNU C error
+ messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's compile facility.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>pcurses</EM> had 8 warnings
+ Aside from <STRONG>-c</STRONG> and <STRONG>-v</STRONG>, options are not portable:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 1996 had 16 warnings
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Most of tic's options are not supported by SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG>:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> Solaris (SVr4) curses has 28 warnings
+ <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> NetBSD tic in 2019 has 19 warnings.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The NetBSD <STRONG>tic</STRONG> supports a few of the ncurses options
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 2019 has 96 warnings
+ <STRONG>-a</STRONG> <STRONG>-o</STRONG> <STRONG>-x</STRONG>
- The checking done in ncurses' <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
- user-defined.
+ and adds <STRONG>-S</STRONG> (a feature which does the same thing as infocmp's <STRONG>-e</STRONG>
+ and <STRONG>-E</STRONG> options).
+
+ 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.
</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 True64 UNIX.
- According to its manual pages, that system also supported the <STRONG>-v</STRONG>
+ 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
+ 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,
+ 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><H3><a name="h3-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></H3><PRE>
- There is some evidence that historic <STRONG>tic</STRONG> implementations treated
- description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or
- short names. This <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not do that, but it does warn when
- description fields may be treated that way and check them for dangerous
- characters.
-
-
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H3><PRE>
- Unlike the SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command, this implementation can actually compile
- termcap sources. In fact, entries in terminfo and termcap syntax can
- be mixed in a single source file. See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for the list of
- termcap names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.
+</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
+ Ridge's comment in <EM>mytinfo</EM>, this version of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> was unable to represent
+ cancelled capabilities.
- 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>
- database (if it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file
- tree of compiled entries.
+ 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).
- The error messages from this <STRONG>tic</STRONG> have the same format as GNU C error
- messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's compile facility.
+ 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
+ <STRONG><A HREF="user_caps.5.html">user_caps(5)</A></STRONG>).
- Aside from <STRONG>-c</STRONG> and <STRONG>-v</STRONG>, options are not portable:
+ Eric Raymond incorporated parts of <EM>mytinfo</EM> into ncurses 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
+ years.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> Most of tic's options are not supported by SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG>:
+ In 1999, Thomas Dickey added the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option to support user-defined
+ capabilities.
- <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>
+ In 2010, Roy Marples provided a <STRONG>tic</STRONG> program and terminfo library for
+ NetBSD. That implementation adapts several features from ncurses,
+ including <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> The NetBSD <STRONG>tic</STRONG> supports a few of the ncurses options
+ The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to check for problems in the terminfo source
+ file. Continued development provides additional checks:
- <STRONG>-a</STRONG> <STRONG>-o</STRONG> <STRONG>-x</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>pcurses</EM> had 8 warnings
- and adds <STRONG>-S</STRONG> (a feature which does the same thing as infocmp's <STRONG>-e</STRONG>
- and <STRONG>-E</STRONG> options).
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 1996 had 16 warnings
- The SVr4 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> mode does not report bad "use=" links.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Solaris (SVr4) curses has 28 warnings
- System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your
- <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> database unless TERMINFO is explicitly set to it.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> NetBSD tic in 2019 has 19 warnings.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 2019 has 96 warnings
-</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
- <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>
- compiled terminal description database
+ The checking done in ncurses' <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
+ user-defined.
-</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR
">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR
S">AUTHORS</a></H2><PRE>
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
-ncurses 6.4 2023-1
0-14 <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-1
1-25 <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
</PRE>
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<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
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<li><a href="#h3-ALIASES">ALIASES</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-PROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
-<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a>
+<li><a href="#h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a>
<ul>
-<li><a href="#h3-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h3-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-PROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
</ul>
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