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+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
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-.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.14 2003/05/10 20:33:49 jmc Exp $
-.TH TERM 7
+.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.18 2007/06/02 20:40:07 tom Exp $
+.TH term 7
.ds n 5
.ds d @TERMINFO@
.SH NAME
.PP
Terminal type descriptions are stored as files of capability data underneath
\*d. To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do
-
- toe | more
-
+.sp
+ @TOE@ | more
+.sp
from your shell. These capability files are in a binary format optimized for
retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based \fBtermcap\fR format they replace);
-to examine an entry, you must use the \fBinfocmp\fR(1) command. Invoke it as
-follows:
-
- infocmp \fIentry-name\fR
-
+to examine an entry, you must use the \fB@INFOCMP@\fR(1M) command.
+Invoke it as follows:
+.sp
+ @INFOCMP@ \fIentry-name\fR
+.sp
where \fIentry-name\fR is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the
name of its capability file the subdirectory of \*d named for its first
letter). This command dumps a capability file in the text format described by
multi-platform environment! If a model number follows, it should indicate
either the OS release level or the console driver release level.
.PP
-The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it doesn't fit one of the
+The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it does not fit one of the
standard ANSI or vt100 types) should be the program name or a readily
recognizable abbreviation of it (i.e. \fBversaterm\fR, \fBctrm\fR).
.PP