+ 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 ter-
+ minfo.
+
+ <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 problems and bad use links. If you specify
+ <STRONG>-C</STRONG> (<STRONG>-I</STRONG>) 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, as well
+ as buggy checking for the buffer length (and a doc-
+ umented limit in terminfo), these entries may cause
+ core dumps with other implementations.
+
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> checks string capabilities to ensure that those
+ with parameters will be valid expressions. It does
+ this check only for the predefined string capabili-
+ ties; 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
+ 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 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 <STRONG>-I</STRONG> or <STRONG>-C</STRONG>.)
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