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-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>tset</STRONG>, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> - terminal initialization
-</PRE>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>tset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
[<EM>terminal</EM>]
<STRONG>reset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
[<EM>terminal</EM>]
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-tset---initialization">tset - initialization</a></H3><PRE>
<STRONG>Tset</STRONG> initializes terminals. <STRONG>Tset</STRONG> first determines the
type of terminal that you are using. This determination
is done as follows, using the first terminal type found.
versus the other initialization. If neither option is
given, both are assumed.
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-reset---reinitialization">reset - reinitialization</a></H3><PRE>
When invoked as <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> sets cooked and echo modes,
turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline transla-
tion and resets any unset special characters to their
the abnormal state. Also, the terminal will often not
echo the command.
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H2><PRE>
The options are as follows:
<STRONG>-c</STRONG> Set control characters and modes.
tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as "^H" or "^h".
-</PRE>
-<H2>SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
It is often desirable to enter the terminal type and
information about the terminal's capabilities into the
shell's environment. This is done using the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option.
eval `tset -s options ... `
-</PRE>
-<H2>TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></H2><PRE>
When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the
current system information is incorrect) the terminal type
derived from the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file or the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environmental
marks ("!").
-</PRE>
-<H2>HISTORY</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command appeared in BSD 3.0. The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> imple-
mentation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources for
a terminfo environment by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyr-
sus.com>.
-</PRE>
-<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+ Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications
+ Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents
+ <STRONG>tset</STRONG> or <STRONG>reset</STRONG>.
+
The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility has been provided for backward-compati-
bility with BSD environments (under most modern UNIXes,
<STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> and <STRONG>getty(1)</STRONG> can set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> appropriately for
<STRONG>-d</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-p</STRONG> options are similarly not documented or useful,
but were retained as they appear to be in widespread use.
It is strongly recommended that any usage of these three
- options be changed to use the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option instead. The <STRONG>-n</STRONG>
- option remains, but has no effect. The <STRONG>-adnp</STRONG> options are
- therefore omitted from the usage summary above.
-
- It is still permissible to specify the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG>
- options without arguments, although it is strongly recom-
- mended that such usage be fixed to explicitly specify the
+ options be changed to use the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option instead. The <STRONG>-a</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>-d</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-p</STRONG> options are therefore omitted from the usage
+ summary above.
+
+ Very old systems, e.g., 3BSD, used a different terminal
+ driver which was replaced in 4BSD in the early 1980s. To
+ accommodate these older systems, the 4BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG> provided a
+ <STRONG>-n</STRONG> option to specify that the new terminal driver should
+ be used. This implementation does not provide that
+ choice.
+
+ It is still permissible to specify the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG>
+ options without arguments, although it is strongly recom-
+ mended that such usage be fixed to explicitly specify the
character.
- As of 4.4BSD, executing <STRONG>tset</STRONG> as <STRONG>reset</STRONG> no longer implies
+ As of 4.4BSD, executing <STRONG>tset</STRONG> as <STRONG>reset</STRONG> no longer implies
the <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> option. Also, the interaction between the - option
and the <EM>terminal</EM> argument in some historic implementations
of <STRONG>tset</STRONG> has been removed.
-</PRE>
-<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command uses these environment variables:
SHELL
tells <STRONG>tset</STRONG> whether to initialize <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> using <STRONG>sh</STRONG> or <STRONG>csh</STRONG>
syntax.
- TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is
+ TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is
distinct, though many are similar.
TERMCAP
looking for the terminal description.
-</PRE>
-<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
/etc/ttys
- system port name to terminal type mapping database
+ system port name to terminal type mapping database
(BSD versions only).
/usr/share/terminfo
terminal capability database
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>csh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>tty(4)</STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ttys(5)</STRONG>, <STRONG>environ(7)</STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20141220).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20160514).
<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
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+<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#h3-tset---initialization">tset - initialization</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-reset---reinitialization">reset - reinitialization</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
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