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<H1 class="no-header">toe 1m</H1>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
With no options, <STRONG>toe</STRONG> lists all available terminal types by primary name
with descriptions. File arguments specify the directories to be
- scanned; if no such arguments are given, your default terminfo direc-
- tory is scanned. If you also specify the <STRONG>-h</STRONG> option, a directory header
- will be issued as each directory is entered.
+ scanned; if no such arguments are given, your default terminfo
+ directory is scanned. If you also specify the <STRONG>-h</STRONG> option, a directory
+ header will be issued as each directory is entered.
There are other options intended for use by terminfo file maintainers:
<STRONG>-a</STRONG> report on all of the terminal databases which ncurses would
search, rather than only the first one that it finds.
- If the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> is also given, <STRONG>toe</STRONG> adds a column to the report, show-
- ing (like <STRONG>conflict(1)</STRONG>) which entries which belong to a given
+ If the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> is also given, <STRONG>toe</STRONG> adds a column to the report,
+ showing (like <STRONG>conflict(1)</STRONG>) which entries which belong to a given
terminal database. An "*" marks entries which differ, and "+"
marks equivalent entries.
<STRONG>-s</STRONG> sort the output by the entry names.
<STRONG>-u</STRONG> <EM>file</EM>
- says to write a report to the standard output, listing dependen-
- cies in the given terminfo/termcap source file. The report con-
- denses the "use" relation: each line consists of the primary
- name of a terminal that has use capabilities, followed by a
- colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names of all
- terminals which occur in those use capabilities, followed by a
- newline
+ says to write a report to the standard output, listing
+ dependencies in the given terminfo/termcap source file. The
+ report condenses the "use" relation: each line consists of the
+ primary name of a terminal that has use capabilities, followed
+ by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names
+ of all terminals which occur in those use capabilities, followed
+ by a newline
<STRONG>-U</STRONG> <EM>file</EM>
says to write a report to the standard output, listing reverse
dependencies in the given terminfo/termcap source file. The
report reverses the "use" relation: each line consists of the
- primary name of a terminal that occurs in use capabilities, fol-
- lowed by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary
- names of all terminals which depend on it, followed by a new-
- line.
+ primary name of a terminal that occurs in use capabilities,
+ followed by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated
+ primary names of all terminals which depend on it, followed by a
+ newline.
<STRONG>-v</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error,
showing <STRONG>toe</STRONG>'s progress.
and exits.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></H2><PRE>
+ Without sorting, the <STRONG>-a</STRONG> option reports all of the names found in all of
+ the terminal databases found by the <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> and <STRONG>TERMINFO_DIRS</STRONG>
+ environment variables:
+
+ MtxOrb162 16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ MtxOrb204 20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ MtxOrb Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ qvt101+ qume qvt 101 PLUS product
+ qvt119+-25 QVT 119 PLUS with 25 data lines
+ qansi-g QNX ANSI
+ qvt103 qume qvt 103
+ qnxw QNX4 windows
+ qansi-w QNX ansi for windows
+ qnxm QNX4 with mouse events
+ qvt203-25-w QVT 203 PLUS with 25 by 132 columns
+ qansi-t QNX ansi without console writes
+ . . .
+
+ Use the <STRONG>-a</STRONG> and <STRONG>-s</STRONG> options together to show where each terminal
+ description was found:
+
+ --> /usr/local/ncurses/share/terminfo
+ ----> /usr/share/terminfo
+ *-+-: 9term Plan9 terminal emulator for X
+ *---: Eterm Eterm with xterm-style color support (X Window System)
+ *-*-: Eterm-256color Eterm with xterm 256-colors
+ *-*-: Eterm-88color Eterm with 88 colors
+ *-+-: MtxOrb Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ *-+-: MtxOrb162 16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ *-+-: MtxOrb204 20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ *-*-: NCR260VT300WPP NCR 2900_260 vt300 wide mode pc+ kybd
+ *-+-: aaa ann arbor ambassador/30 lines
+ *-+-: aaa+dec ann arbor ambassador in dec vt100 mode
+ *-+-: aaa+rv ann arbor ambassador in reverse video
+ . . .
+
+
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo/?/*</STRONG>
Compiled terminal description database.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
+ This utility is not provided by other implementations. There is no
+ relevant X/Open or POSIX standard for <STRONG>toe</STRONG>.
+
+ The program name refers to a developer's pun:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tic</STRONG>,
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tac</STRONG> (now <STRONG>tack</STRONG>),
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>toe</STRONG>.
+
+ It replaced a <STRONG>-T</STRONG> option which was briefly supported by the ncurses
+ <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> utility in 1995.
+
+ The <STRONG>-a</STRONG> and <STRONG>-s</STRONG> options were added to <STRONG>toe</STRONG> several years later (2006 and
+ 2011, respectively).
+
+
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <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="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ter-</STRONG>
- <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">minfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+ <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20170506).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.3 (patch 20220724).
<li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
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