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-</PRE>
-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
- <B>tic</B> - the <I>terminfo</I> entry-description compiler
-</PRE>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
- <B>tic</B> [<B>-1CINRTacfrsx</B>] [<B>-e</B> <I>names</I>] [<B>-o</B> <I>dir</I>] [<B>-v</B>[<I>n</I>]] [<B>-w</B>[<I>n</I>]]
- <I>file</I>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> - the <EM>terminfo</EM> entry-description compiler
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- The command <B>tic</B> translates a <B>terminfo</B> file from source
- format into compiled format. The compiled format is nec-
- essary for use with the library routines in <B><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></B>.
-
- The results are normally placed in the system terminfo
- directory <B>@DATADIR@/terminfo</B>. There are two ways to
- change this behavior.
-
- First, you may override the system default by setting the
- variable <B>TERMINFO</B> in your shell environment to a valid
- (existing) directory name.
-
- Secondly, if <B>tic</B> cannot get access to <I>@DATADIR@/terminfo</I>
- or your TERMINFO directory, it looks for the directory
- <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I>; if that directory exists, the entry is
- placed there.
-
- Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check
- for a TERMINFO directory first, look at <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I> if
- TERMINFO is not set, and finally look in <I>@DATADIR@/ter-</I>
- <I>minfo</I>.
-
- <B>-a</B> tells <B>tic</B> to retain commented-out capabilities
- rather than discarding them. Capabilities are com-
- mented by prefixing them with a period. This sets
- the <B>-x</B> option, because it treats the commented-out
- entries as user-defined names.
-
- <B>-c</B> tells <B>tic</B> to only check <I>file</I> for errors, including
- syntax problems and bad use links. If you specify
- <B>-C</B> (<B>-I</B>) with this option, the code will print warn-
- ings about entries which, after use resolution, are
- more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a fixed
- buffer length in older termcap libraries (and a
- documented limit in terminfo), these entries may
- cause core dumps.
-
- <B>-v</B><I>n</I> specifies that (verbose) output be written to stan-
- dard error trace information showing <B>tic</B>'s
- progress. The optional integer <I>n</I> is a number from
- 1 to 10, inclusive, indicating the desired level of
- detail of information. If <I>n</I> is omitted, the
- default level is 1. If <I>n</I> is specified and greater
- than 1, the level of detail is increased.
-
- <B>-o</B><I>dir</I> Write compiled entries to given directory.
- Overrides the TERMINFO environment variable.
-
- <B>-w</B><I>n</I> specifies the width of the output.
-
- <B>-1</B> restricts the output to a single column
-
- <B>-C</B> Force source translation to termcap format. Note:
- this differs from the -C option of <B><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></B> in
- that it does not merely translate capability names,
- but also translates terminfo strings to termcap
- format. Capabilities that are not translatable are
- left in the entry under their terminfo names but
- commented out with two preceding dots.
-
- <B>-G</B> Display constant literals in decimal form rather
- than their character equivalents.
-
- <B>-I</B> Force source translation to terminfo format.
-
- <B>-L</B> Force source translation to terminfo format using
- the long C variable names listed in <<B>term.h</B>>
-
- <B>-N</B> Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating
- from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a num-
- ber of assumptions about the defaults of string
- capabilities <B>reset1_string</B>, <B>carriage_return</B>, <B>cur-</B>
- <B>sor_left</B>, <B>cursor_down</B>, <B>scroll_forward</B>, <B>tab</B>, <B>new-</B>
- <B>line</B>, <B>key_backspace</B>, <B>key_left</B>, and <B>key_down</B>, then
- attempts to use obsolete termcap capabilities to
- deduce correct values. It also normally suppresses
- output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as <B>bs</B>.
- This option forces a more literal translation that
+
+</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>
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+ The <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command translates a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> file from source format into com-
+ piled format. The compiled format is necessary for use with the
+ library routines in <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+
+ As described in <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>, the database may be either a directory tree
+ (one file per terminal entry) or a hashed database (one record per
+ entry). The <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command writes only one type of entry, depending on
+ how it was built:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> For directory trees, the top-level directory, e.g., /usr/share/ter-
+ minfo, specifies the location of the database.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> For hashed databases, a filename is needed. If the given file is
+ not found by that name, but can be found by adding the suffix
+ ".db", then that is used.
+
+ The default name for the hashed database is the same as the default
+ directory name (only adding a ".db" suffix).
+
+ In either case (directory or hashed database), <STRONG>tic</STRONG> will create the con-
+ tainer if it does not exist. For a directory, this would be the "ter-
+ minfo" leaf, versus a "terminfo.db" file.
+
+ The results are normally placed in the system terminfo database
+ <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>. The compiled terminal description can be placed
+ in a different terminfo database. There are two ways to achieve this:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> First, you may override the system default either by using the <STRONG>-o</STRONG>
+ option, or by setting the variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> in your shell environ-
+ ment to a valid database location.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Secondly, if <STRONG>tic</STRONG> cannot write in <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM> or the loca-
+ tion specified using your TERMINFO variable, it looks for the
+ directory <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> (or hashed database <EM>$HOME/.terminfo.db)</EM>;
+ if that location exists, the entry is placed there.
+
+ Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check in succes-
+ sion
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> a location specified with the TERMINFO environment variable,
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>,
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS environment variable,
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> a compiled-in list of directories (/usr/local/ncurses/share/ter-
+ minfo:/usr/share/terminfo), and
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the system terminfo database (<EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>).
+
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-ALIASES">ALIASES</a></H3><PRE>
+ This is the same program as infotocap and captoinfo; usually those are
+ linked to, or copied from this program:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> When invoked as infotocap, tic sets the <STRONG>-I</STRONG> option.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> When invoked as captoinfo, tic sets the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option.
+
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H3><PRE>
+ <STRONG>-0</STRONG> restricts the output to a single line
+
+ <STRONG>-1</STRONG> restricts the output to a single column
+
+ <STRONG>-a</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to retain commented-out capabilities rather than dis-
+ carding them. Capabilities are commented by prefixing them with
+ a period. This sets the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option, because it treats the com-
+ mented-out entries as user-defined names. If the source is
+ termcap, accept the 2-character names required by version 6.
+ Otherwise these are ignored.
+
+ <STRONG>-C</STRONG> Force source translation to termcap format. Note: this differs
+ from the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> in that it does not merely
+ translate capability names, but also translates terminfo strings
+ to termcap format. Capabilities that are not translatable are
+ left in the entry under their terminfo names but commented out
+ with two preceding dots. The actual format used incorporates
+ some improvements for escaped characters from terminfo format.
+ For a stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the <STRONG>-K</STRONG> option.
+
+ If this is combined with <STRONG>-c</STRONG>, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> makes additional checks to
+ report cases where the terminfo values do not have an exact
+ equivalent in termcap form. For example:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>sgr</STRONG> usually will not convert, because termcap lacks the
+ ability to work with more than two parameters, and because
+ termcap lacks many of the arithmetic/logical operators used
+ in terminfo.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> capabilities with more than one delay or with delays before
+ the end of the string will not convert completely.
+
+ <STRONG>-c</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to only check <EM>file</EM> for errors, including syntax prob-
+ lems and bad use-links. If you specify <STRONG>-C</STRONG> (<STRONG>-I</STRONG>) with this
+ option, the code will print warnings about entries which, after
+ use resolution, are more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a
+ fixed buffer length in older termcap libraries, as well as buggy
+ checking for the buffer length (and a documented limit in ter-
+ minfo), these entries may cause core dumps with other implemen-
+ tations.
+
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> checks string capabilities to ensure that those with parame-
+ ters will be valid expressions. It does this check only for the
+ predefined string capabilities; those which are defined with the
+ <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option are ignored.
+
+ <STRONG>-D</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to print the database locations that it knows about,
+ and exit. The first location shown is the one to which it would
+ write compiled terminal descriptions. If <STRONG>tic</STRONG> is not able to
+ find a writable database location according to the rules summa-
+ rized 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
+ 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 com-
+ piled, this option may require <STRONG>-I</STRONG> or <STRONG>-C</STRONG>.)
+
+ <STRONG>-f</STRONG> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
+ if/then/else/endif expressions indented for readability.
+
+ <STRONG>-G</STRONG> Display constant literals in decimal form rather than their
+ character equivalents.
+
+ <STRONG>-g</STRONG> Display constant character literals in quoted form rather than
+ their decimal equivalents.
+
+ <STRONG>-I</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format.
+
+ <STRONG>-K</STRONG> Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to termcap format,
+ e.g., "\s" for space.
+
+ <STRONG>-L</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format using the long C
+ variable names listed in <<STRONG>term.h</STRONG>>
+
+ <STRONG>-N</STRONG> Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating from termcap
+ to terminfo, the compiler makes a number of assumptions about
+ the defaults of string capabilities <STRONG>reset1_string</STRONG>, <STRONG>car-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>riage_return</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_left</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_down</STRONG>, <STRONG>scroll_forward</STRONG>, <STRONG>tab</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>newline</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_backspace</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_left</STRONG>, and <STRONG>key_down</STRONG>, then attempts to
+ use obsolete termcap capabilities to deduce correct values. It
+ also normally suppresses output of obsolete termcap capabilities
+ such as <STRONG>bs</STRONG>. This option forces a more literal translation that
also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
- <B>-R</B><I>subset</I>
- Restrict output to a given subset. This option is
- for use with archaic versions of terminfo like
- those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that don't support
- the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and out-
- right broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own
- extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available
- subsets are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and
- "AIX"; see <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B> for details.
-
- <B>-T</B> eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text.
- This is mainly useful for testing and analysis,
- since the compiled descriptions are limited (e.g.,
- 1023 for termcap, 4096 for terminfo).
-
- <B>-r</B> Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining
- tc capabilities) even when doing translation to
- termcap format. This may be needed if you are
- preparing a termcap file for a termcap library
- (such as GNU termcap up to version 1.3 or BSD
- termcap up to 4.3BSD) that doesn't handle multiple
- tc capabilities per entry.
-
- <B>-e</B> 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 translated as
- normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
- it. The option value is interpreted as a file con-
- taining the list if it contains a '/'. (Note:
- depending on how tic was compiled, this option may
- require -I or -C.)
-
- <B>-f</B> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
- if/then/else/endif expressions indented for read-
- ability.
-
- <B>-g</B> Display constant character literals in quoted form
- rather than their decimal equivalents.
-
- <B>-s</B> Summarize the compile by showing the directory into
- which entries are written, and the number of
- entries which are compiled.
-
- <B>-x</B> Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That
- is, if you supply a capability name which <B>tic</B> does
- not recognize, it will infer its type (boolean,
- number or string) from the syntax and make an
- extended table entry for that.
-
- <I>file</I> contains one or more <B>terminfo</B> terminal descriptions
- in source format [see <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B>]. Each descrip-
- tion in the file describes the capabilities of a
- particular terminal.
-
- The debug flag levels are as follows:
-
- 1 Names of files created and linked
-
- 2 Information related to the ``use'' facility
-
- 3 Statistics from the hashing algorithm
-
- 5 String-table memory allocations
-
- 7 Entries into the string-table
-
- 8 List of tokens encountered by scanner
-
- 9 All values computed in construction of the hash
- table
-
- If n is not given, it is taken to be one.
-
- All but one of the capabilities recognized by <B>tic</B> are doc-
- umented in <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B>. The exception is the <B>use</B> capabil-
- ity.
-
- When a <B>use</B>=<I>entry</I>-<I>name</I> field is discovered in a terminal
- entry currently being compiled, <B>tic</B> reads in the binary
- from <B>@DATADIR@/terminfo</B> to complete the entry. (Entries
- created from <I>file</I> will be used first. If the environment
- variable <B>TERMINFO</B> is set, that directory is searched
- instead of <B>@DATADIR@/terminfo</B>.) <B>tic</B> duplicates the capa-
- bilities in <I>entry</I>-<I>name</I> for the current entry, with the
- exception of those capabilities that explicitly are
- defined in the current entry.
-
- When an entry, e.g., <B>entry_name_1</B>, contains a
- <B>use=</B><I>entry</I>_<I>name</I>_<I>2</I> field, any canceled capabilities in
- <I>entry</I>_<I>name</I>_<I>2</I> must also appear in <B>entry_name_1</B> before <B>use=</B>
- for these capabilities to be canceled in <B>entry_name_1</B>.
-
- If the environment variable <B>TERMINFO</B> is set, the compiled
- results are placed there instead of <B>@DATADIR@/terminfo</B>.
-
- 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.
+ <STRONG>-o</STRONG><EM>dir</EM> Write compiled entries to given database location. Overrides
+ the TERMINFO environment variable.
+ <STRONG>-Q</STRONG><EM>n</EM> Rather than show source in terminfo (text) format, print the
+ compiled (binary) format in hexadecimal or base64 form, depend-
+ ing on the option's value:
-</PRE>
-<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
- There is some evidence that historic <B>tic</B> implementations
- treated description fields with no whitespace in them as
- additional aliases or short names. This <B>tic</B> does not do
- that, but it does warn when description fields may be
- treated that way and check them for dangerous characters.
+ 1 hexadecimal
+ 2 base64
-</PRE>
-<H2>EXTENSIONS</H2><PRE>
- Unlike the stock SVr4 <B>tic</B> 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 <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B> for the list of termcap
- names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.
-
- The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution
- rules for <B>use</B> capabilities. This implementation of <B>tic</B>
- will find <B>use</B> targets anywhere in the source file, or any-
- where in the file tree rooted at <B>TERMINFO</B> (if <B>TERMINFO</B> is
- defined), or in the user's <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I> directory (if
- it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file
- tree of compiled entries.
-
- The error messages from this <B>tic</B> have the same format as
- GNU C error messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's
- compile facility.
- The <B>-C</B>, <B>-G</B>, <B>-I</B>, <B>-N</B>, <B>-R</B>, <B>-T</B>, <B>-a</B>, <B>-e</B>, <B>-f</B>, <B>-g</B>, <B>-o</B>, <B>-r</B>, <B>-s</B> and
- <B>-x</B> options are not supported under SVr4. The SVr4 -c mode
- does not report bad use links.
-
- System V does not compile entries to or read entries from
- your <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I> directory unless TERMINFO is explic-
- itly set to it.
+ 3 hexadecimal and base64
+ <STRONG>-q</STRONG> Suppress comments and blank lines when showing translated
+ source.
-</PRE>
-<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
- <B>@DATADIR@/terminfo/?/*</B>
- Compiled terminal description database.
+ <STRONG>-R</STRONG><EM>subset</EM>
+ Restrict output to a given subset. This option is for use with
+ archaic versions of terminfo like those on SVr1, Ultrix, or
+ HP/UX that do not support the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses ter-
+ minfo; and outright broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their
+ own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available subsets
+ are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX"; see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for
+ details.
+ <STRONG>-r</STRONG> Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining tc capabili-
+ ties) even when doing translation to termcap format. This may
+ be needed if you are preparing a termcap file for a termcap
+ library (such as GNU termcap through version 1.3 or BSD termcap
+ through 4.3BSD) that does not handle multiple tc capabilities
+ per entry.
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <B><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></B>,
- <B><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B>.
+ <STRONG>-s</STRONG> Summarize the compile by showing the database location into
+ which entries are written, and the number of entries which are
+ compiled.
+
+ <STRONG>-T</STRONG> eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text. This is
+ mainly useful for testing and analysis, since the compiled
+ descriptions are limited (e.g., 1023 for termcap, 4096 for ter-
+ minfo).
+
+ <STRONG>-t</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to discard commented-out capabilities. Normally when
+ translating from terminfo to termcap, untranslatable capabili-
+ ties are commented-out.
+
+ <STRONG>-U</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to not post-process the data after parsing the source
+ file. Normally, it infers data which is commonly missing in older
+ terminfo data, or in termcaps.
+
+ <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and
+ exits.
+
+ <STRONG>-v</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error trace
+ information showing <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s progress.
+
+ The optional parameter <EM>n</EM> is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive,
+ indicating the desired level of detail of information. If ncurses
+ is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is
+ ignored. If <EM>n</EM> is omitted, the default level is 1. If <EM>n</EM> is speci-
+ fied and greater than 1, the level of detail is increased.
+
+ The debug flag levels are as follows:
+
+ 1 Names of files created and linked
+
+ 2 Information related to the "use" facility
+
+ 3 Statistics from the hashing algorithm
+
+ 5 String-table memory allocations
+
+ 7 Entries into the string-table
+ 8 List of tokens encountered by scanner
+ 9 All values computed in construction of the hash table
+ If the debug level <EM>n</EM> is not given, it is taken to be one.
+ <STRONG>-W</STRONG> By itself, the <STRONG>-w</STRONG> option will not force long strings to be
+ wrapped. Use the <STRONG>-W</STRONG> option to do this.
+ If you specify both <STRONG>-f</STRONG> and <STRONG>-W</STRONG> options, the latter is ignored when
+ <STRONG>-f</STRONG> has already split the line.
+ <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>).
+ That is, if you supply a capability name which <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not recog-
+ nize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or string) from the
+ syntax and make an extended table entry for that. User-defined
+ capability strings whose name begins with "k" are treated as func-
+ tion keys.
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a></H3><PRE>
+ <EM>file</EM> contains one or more <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> terminal descriptions in source
+ format [see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>]. Each description in the file
+ describes the capabilities of a particular terminal.
+ If <EM>file</EM> is "-", then the data is read from the standard input.
+ The <EM>file</EM> parameter may also be the path of a character-device.
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-PROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></H3><PRE>
+ All but one of the capabilities recognized by <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are documented in
+ <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. The exception is the <STRONG>use</STRONG> capability.
+ When a <STRONG>use</STRONG>=<EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> field is discovered in a terminal entry currently
+ being compiled, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> reads in the binary from <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG> to
+ complete the entry. (Entries created from <EM>file</EM> will be used first.
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> duplicates the capabilities in <EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> for the current entry,
+ with the exception of those capabilities that explicitly are defined in
+ the current entry.
+ When an entry, e.g., <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>, contains a <STRONG>use=</STRONG><EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> field,
+ any canceled capabilities in <EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> must also appear in
+ <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.
+</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.
+ 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 warn-
+ ing 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>).
+ 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.
+ 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 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to check for problems in the terminfo source
+ file. Continued development provides additional checks:
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>pcurses</EM> had 8 warnings
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 1996 had 16 warnings
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Solaris (SVr4) curses has 28 warnings
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> NetBSD tic in 2019 has 19 warnings.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> ncurses in 2019 has 96 warnings
+ 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-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>
+ 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
+ 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,
+ omitting the <STRONG>-v</STRONG> option.
+
+ The X/Open rationale states that some implementations of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> read ter-
+ minal 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 obsoles-
+ cent 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 descrip-
+ tion fields may be treated that way and check them for dangerous char-
+ acters.
+
+
+</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.
+
+ 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 any-
+ where in the source file, or anywhere in the file tree rooted at <STRONG>TER-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>MINFO</STRONG> (if <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is defined), or in the user's <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> data-
+ base (if it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file tree of
+ compiled entries.
+
+ 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.
+
+ Aside from <STRONG>-c</STRONG> and <STRONG>-v</STRONG>, options are not portable:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Most of tic's options are not supported by SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG>:
+
+ <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> The NetBSD <STRONG>tic</STRONG> supports a few of the ncurses options
+
+ <STRONG>-a</STRONG> <STRONG>-o</STRONG> <STRONG>-x</STRONG>
+
+ 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-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo/?/*</STRONG>
+ Compiled terminal description database.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>. <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. <STRONG><A HREF="user_caps.5.html">user_caps(5)</A></STRONG>.
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.2 (patch 20200425).
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
+ Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
+ Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
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