ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180407

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_terminfo.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_terminfo.3x b/man/curs_terminfo.3x
index 0b75f564cfea27a6cce1e8e9cb97bd6ed78540e4..844098e6a917de512b3a33d89f4ae5d5531d95ff 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_terminfo.3x
+++ b/man/curs_terminfo.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,14 +26,15 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.55 2017/03/31 15:16:15 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.58 2018/04/07 21:09:12 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_terminfo 3X ""
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
 .ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
 .el       .ds '' ''
 .de bP
-.IP \(bu 4
+.ie n  .IP \(bu 4
+.el    .IP \(bu 2
 ..
 .ds n 5
 .na
@@ -285,9 +286,12 @@ Its numeric parameters are integers (int) rather than longs.
 The \fBtputs\fR routine applies padding information to the string
 \fIstr\fR and outputs it:
 .bP
-The \fIstr\fR must be a terminfo string
-variable or the return value from \fBtparm\fR, \fBtgetstr\fR, or
-\fBtgoto\fR.
+The \fIstr\fR parameter must be a terminfo string
+variable or the return value from
+\fBtparm\fR, \fBtiparm\fP, \fBtgetstr\fR, or \fBtgoto\fR.
+.IP
+The \fBtgetstr\fP and \fBtgoto\fP functions are part of the \fItermcap\fP
+interface, which happens to share this function name with the \fIterminfo\fP interface.
 .bP
 \fIaffcnt\fR is the number of lines affected, or 1 if
 not applicable.
@@ -502,7 +506,7 @@ In System V Release 4, the third argument of \fBtputs\fR has the type
 \fBint (*putc)(char)\fR.
 .PP
 At least one implementation of X/Open Curses (Solaris) returns a value
-other than OK/ERR from \fBtputs\fP.
+other than \fBOK\fP/\fBERR\fP from \fBtputs\fP.
 That returns the length of the string, and does no error-checking.
 .PP
 X/Open notes that after calling \fBmvcur\fR, the curses state may not match the