+The actual format used incorporates some improvements for escaped characters
+from terminfo format.
+For a stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the \fB\-K\fR option.
+.TP
+\fB\-c\fR
+tells \fB@TIC@\fP to only check \fIfile\fR for errors, including syntax problems and
+bad use links.
+If you specify \fB\-C\fR (\fB\-I\fR) with this option, the code
+will print warnings about entries which, after use resolution, are more than
+1023 (4096) bytes long.
+Due to a fixed buffer length in older termcap libraries,
+as well as buggy checking for the buffer length
+(and a documented limit in terminfo),
+these entries may cause core
+dumps with other implementations.
+.TP
+\fB\-D\fR
+tells \fB@TIC@\fP to print the database locations that it knows about, and exit.
+The first location shown is the one to which it would write compiled
+terminal descriptions.
+If \fB@TIC@\fP is not able to find a writable database location
+according to the rules summarized above,
+it will print a diagnostic and exit with an error rather than
+printing a list of database locations.