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</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.
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
</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
<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 6.0 (patch 20160402).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20160514).
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