'\" t
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-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2012,2013 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 *
.\" authorization. *
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-.\" $Id: infocmp.1m,v 1.51 2012/05/26 21:32:01 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: infocmp.1m,v 1.52 2013/01/19 21:23:07 tom Exp $
.TH @INFOCMP@ 1M ""
.ds n 5
.ds d @TERMINFO@
the output and commented out.
These should be edited by hand.
.PP
+For best results when converting to \fBtermcap\fP format,
+you should use both \fB\-C\fP and \fB\-r\fP.
+Normally a termcap description is limited to 1023 bytes.
+@INFOCMP@ trims away less essential parts to make it fit.
+If you are converting to one of the (rare) termcap implementations
+which accept an unlimited size of termcap,
+you may want to add the \fB\-T\fP option.
+More often however, you must help the termcap implementation,
+and trim excess whitespace (use the \fB\-0\fP option for that).
+.PP
All padding information for strings will be collected together and placed
at the beginning of the string where \fBtermcap\fR expects it.
Mandatory
\fB@TOE@\fR(1M),
\fBcurses\fR(3X),
\fBterminfo\fR(\*n).
+.sp
+http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html
.PP
This describes \fBncurses\fR
version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).