ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180519

[ncurses.git] / man / tset.1

diff --git a/man/tset.1 b/man/tset.1
index dec57cb4597a2d13091e482a831bd259abc5be2a..9fe5621397b813b6f41a4b0c402b1127197b71f2 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tset.1
+++ b/man/tset.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 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: tset.1,v 1.47 2017/01/07 22:59:51 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tset.1,v 1.53 2018/05/19 21:07:46 tom Exp $
 .TH @TSET@ 1 ""
 .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
 ..
 .SH NAME
 \fB@TSET@\fR, \fB@RESET@\fR \- terminal initialization
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ standard output,
 .bP
 standard input and
 .bP
-ultimately \*(lq/dev/tty\*(rq
+ultimately \*(``/dev/tty\*(''
 .PP
 to obtain terminal settings.
 Having retrieved these settings, \fB@TSET@\fP remembers which
@@ -100,7 +101,8 @@ and \fBCOLUMNS\fP variables specify this),
 use this to set the operating system's notion of the window size.
 .bP
 if the \*(``\fB\-c\fP\*('' option is enabled,
-the backspace, interrupt and line kill characters (among many other things) are set
+the backspace, interrupt and line kill characters
+(among many other things) are set
 .bP
 unless the \*(``\fB\-I\fP\*('' option is enabled,
 the terminal
@@ -274,18 +276,38 @@ and that \fBcsh\fR users insert a backslash character (\*(``\e\*('') before
 any exclamation marks (\*(``!\*('').
 .SH HISTORY
 .PP
-A \fBreset\fP command appeared in 2BSD (1979), written by Kurt Shoens.
+A \fBreset\fP command appeared in 2BSD (April 1979), written by Kurt Shoens.
+This program set the \fIerase\fP and \fIkill\fP characters
+to \fB^H\fP (backspace) and \fB@\fP respectively.
+Mark Horton improved that in 3BSD (October 1979), adding
+\fIintr\fP, \fIquit\fP, \fIstart\fP/\fIstop\fP and \fIeof\fP characters
+as well as changing the program to avoid modifying any user settings.
+.PP
+Later in 4.1BSD (December 1980),
+Mark Horton added a call to the \fBtset\fP program
+using the \fB\-I\fP and \fB\-Q\fP options, i.e.,
+using that to improve the terminal modes.
+With those options,
+that version of \fBreset\fP did not use the termcap database.
 .PP
 A separate \fBtset\fP command was provided in 2BSD by Eric Allman.
-While the oldest published source (from 1979) provides both programs,
+While the oldest published source (from 1979)
+provides both \fBtset\fP and \fBreset\fP,
 Allman's comments in the 2BSD source code indicate
 that he began work in October 1977,
 continuing development over the next few years.
 .PP
-In September 1980, Eric Allman modified \fBtset\fP to provide a \*(lqreset\*(rq
-feature when the program was invoked as \fBreset\fP.
+In September 1980, Eric Allman modified \fBtset\fP,
+adding the code from the existing \*(``reset\*(''
+feature when \fBtset\fP was invoked as \fBreset\fP.
+Rather than simply copying the existing program,
+in this merged version, \fBtset\fP used the termcap database
+to do additional (re)initialization of the terminal.
 This version appeared in 4.1cBSD, late in 1982.
 .PP
+Other developers (e.g., Keith Bostic and Jim Bloom)
+continued to modify \fBtset\fP until 4.4BSD was released in 1993.
+.PP
 The \fBncurses\fR implementation
 was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources for a terminfo environment by Eric
 S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>.
@@ -304,7 +326,7 @@ In fact, the commonly-used \fBreset\fP utility
 is always an alias for \fBtset\fP.
 .PP
 The \fB@TSET@\fR utility provides for backward-compatibility with BSD
-environments (under most modern UNIXes, \fB/etc/inittab\fR and \fIgetty\fR(1)
+environments (under most modern UNIXes, \fB/etc/inittab\fR and \fBgetty\fR(1)
 can set \fBTERM\fR appropriately for each dial-up line; this obviates what was
 \fB@TSET@\fR's most important use).  This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD
 \fBtset\fP, with a few exceptions specified here.
@@ -333,7 +355,8 @@ The \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-d\fR, and \fB\-p\fR 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 \fB\-m\fR option instead.
-The \fB\-a\fP, \fB\-d\fP, and \fB\-p\fR options are therefore omitted from the usage summary above.
+The \fB\-a\fP, \fB\-d\fP, and \fB\-p\fR options
+are therefore omitted from the usage summary above.
 .PP
 Very old systems, e.g., 3BSD, used a different terminal driver which
 was replaced in 4BSD in the early 1980s.
@@ -400,14 +423,14 @@ system port name to terminal type mapping database (BSD versions only).
 terminal capability database
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .hy 0
-csh(1),
-sh(1),
-stty(1),
-curs_terminfo(3X),
-tty(4),
-terminfo(5),
-ttys(5),
-environ(7)
+\fBcsh\fP(1),
+\fBsh\fP(1),
+\fBstty\fP(1),
+\fBcurs_terminfo\fP(3X),
+\fBtty\fP(4),
+\fBterminfo\fP(5),
+\fBttys\fP(5),
+\fBenviron\fP(7)
 .hy
 .PP
 This describes \fBncurses\fR