X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fterm.7.html;h=2cb2c11da58205242500d697ae561b7d38f5a49d;hp=5c0a4238d0e578a547d8728de42161f7fc19402a;hb=5461fc336d03fbfea6b85ac21c6d49c528f6752d;hpb=77afe78361875f531dc2bf8d73f2e781c8e76176 diff --git a/doc/html/man/term.7.html b/doc/html/man/term.7.html index 5c0a4238..2cb2c11d 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/term.7.html +++ b/doc/html/man/term.7.html @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ - +
+ +- term(7) term(7) --
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term - conventions for naming terminal types --
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The environment variable TERM should normally contain the type name of the terminal, console or display-device type you are using. This information is critical for all @@ -101,9 +99,9 @@ you must use the infocmp(1m) command. Invoke it as fol- lows: - infocmp entry-name + infocmp entry_name - where entry-name is the name of the type you wish to exam- + where entry_name is the name of the type you wish to exam- ine (and the name of its capability file the subdirectory of /usr/share/terminfo named for its first letter). This command dumps a capability file in the text format @@ -152,7 +150,7 @@ thus vt100, hp2621, wy50. The root name for a PC-Unix console type should be the OS - name, i.e. linux, bsdos, freebsd, netbsd. It should not + name, i.e., linux, bsdos, freebsd, netbsd. It should not be console or any other generic that might cause confusion in a multi-platform environment! If a model number fol- lows, it should indicate either the OS release level or @@ -161,7 +159,7 @@ 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. versaterm, ctrm). + it (i.e., versaterm, ctrm). Following the root name, you may add any reasonable number of hyphen-separated feature suffixes. @@ -215,15 +213,13 @@ environment variable when no -T option is specified. --
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For maximum compatibility with older System V UNIXes, names and aliases should be unique within the first 14 characters. --
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/usr/share/terminfo/?/* compiled terminal capability data base @@ -234,18 +230,21 @@ tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes) --
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curses(3x), terminfo(5), term(5). term(7)-