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<EM>name</EM> support. Other implementations of <STRONG>tput</STRONG> on SVr4-based
systems such as Solaris, IRIX64 and HPUX as well as others
such as AIX and Tru64 provide support for <EM>capname</EM>
- operands. A few platforms such as FreeBSD and NetBSD rec-
- ognize termcap names rather than terminfo capability names
- in their respective <STRONG>tput</STRONG> commands.
+ operands.
+
+ A few platforms such as FreeBSD and NetBSD recognize term-
+ cap names rather than terminfo capability names in their
+ respective <STRONG>tput</STRONG> commands.
+
+ Most implementations which provide support for <EM>capname</EM>
+ operands use the <EM>tparm</EM> function to expand parameters in
+ it. That function expects a mixture of numeric and string
+ parameters, requiring <STRONG>tput</STRONG> to know which type to use.
+ This implementation uses a table to determine that for the
+ standard <EM>capname</EM> operands, and an internal library func-
+ tion to analyze nonstandard <EM>capname</EM> operands. Other
+ implementations may simply guess that an operand contain-
+ ing only digits is intended to be a number.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="stty.1.html">stty(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tabs.1.html">tabs(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+ <STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="stty.1.html">stty(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tabs.1.html">tabs(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.6 (patch 20081011).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20120107).