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@@ -79,20 +79,19 @@
minfo" leaf, versus a "terminfo.db" file.
The results are normally placed in the system terminfo database
- /usr/local/ncurses/lib/terminfo. The compiled terminal description can
- be placed in a different terminfo database. There are two ways to
- achieve this:
+ /usr/share/terminfo. The compiled terminal description can be placed
+ in a different terminfo database. There are two ways to achieve this:
- o First, you may override the system default either by using the -o
- option, or by setting the variable TERMINFO in your shell environ-
+ o First, you may override the system default either by using the -o
+ option, or by setting the variable TERMINFO in your shell environ-
ment to a valid database location.
- o Secondly, if tic cannot write in /usr/local/ncurses/lib/terminfo or
- the location specified using your TERMINFO variable, it looks for
- the directory $HOME/.terminfo (or hashed database $HOME/.ter-
- minfo.db); if that location exists, the entry is placed there.
+ o Secondly, if tic cannot write in /usr/share/terminfo or the loca-
+ tion specified using your TERMINFO variable, it looks for the
+ directory $HOME/.terminfo (or hashed database $HOME/.terminfo.db);
+ if that location exists, the entry is placed there.
- Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check in succes-
+ Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check in succes-
sion
o a location specified with the TERMINFO environment variable,
@@ -101,10 +100,10 @@
o directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS environment variable,
- o a compiled-in list of directories (/usr/local/ncurses/share/ter-
+ o a compiled-in list of directories (/usr/local/ncurses/share/ter-
minfo:/usr/share/terminfo), and
- o the system terminfo database (/usr/local/ncurses/lib/terminfo).
+ o the system terminfo database (/usr/share/terminfo).
@@ -112,41 +111,41 @@
-1 restricts the output to a single column
- -a tells tic to retain commented-out capabilities rather than dis-
+ -a tells tic to retain commented-out capabilities rather than dis-
carding them. Capabilities are commented by prefixing them with
- a period. This sets the -x option, because it treats the com-
- mented-out entries as user-defined names. If the source is
- termcap, accept the 2-character names required by version 6.
+ a period. This sets the -x option, because it treats the com-
+ mented-out entries as user-defined names. If the source is
+ termcap, accept the 2-character names required by version 6.
Otherwise these are ignored.
- -C Force source translation to termcap format. Note: this differs
- from the -C option of infocmp(1m) in that it does not merely
+ -C Force source translation to termcap format. Note: this differs
+ from the -C option of infocmp(1m) in that it does not merely
translate capability names, but also translates terminfo strings
- to termcap format. Capabilities that are not translatable are
- left in the entry under their terminfo names but commented out
- with two preceding dots. The actual format used incorporates
- some improvements for escaped characters from terminfo format.
+ to termcap format. Capabilities that are not translatable are
+ left in the entry under their terminfo names but commented out
+ with two preceding dots. The actual format used incorporates
+ some improvements for escaped characters from terminfo format.
For a stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the -K option.
- If this is combined with -c, tic makes additional checks to
- report cases where the terminfo values do not have an exact
+ If this is combined with -c, tic makes additional checks to
+ report cases where the terminfo values do not have an exact
equivalent in termcap form. For example:
- o sgr usually will not convert, because termcap lacks the
- ability to work with more than two parameters, and because
- termcap lacks many of the arithmetic/logical operators used
+ o sgr usually will not convert, because termcap lacks the
+ ability to work with more than two parameters, and because
+ termcap lacks many of the arithmetic/logical operators used
in terminfo.
- o capabilities with more than one delay or with delays before
+ o capabilities with more than one delay or with delays before
the end of the string will not convert completely.
- -c tells tic to only check file for errors, including syntax prob-
- lems and bad use links. If you specify -C (-I) with this
- option, the code will print warnings about entries which, after
- use resolution, are more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a
+ -c tells tic to only check file for errors, including syntax prob-
+ lems and bad use links. If you specify -C (-I) 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 ter-
- minfo), these entries may cause core dumps with other implemen-
+ checking for the buffer length (and a documented limit in ter-
+ minfo), these entries may cause core dumps with other implemen-
tations.
tic checks string capabilities to ensure that those with parame-
@@ -154,29 +153,29 @@
predefined string capabilities; those which are defined with the
-x option are ignored.
- -D tells tic to print the database locations that it knows about,
+ -D tells tic 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 tic is not able to
- find a writable database location according to the rules summa-
- rized above, it will print a diagnostic and exit with an error
+ write compiled terminal descriptions. If tic is not able to
+ find a writable database location according to the rules summa-
+ rized above, it will print a diagnostic and exit with an error
rather than printing a list of database locations.
-e names
- Limit writes and translations to the following comma-separated
- list of terminals. If any name or alias of a terminal matches
- one of the names in the list, the entry will be written or
+ Limit writes and translations to the following comma-separated
+ list of terminals. If any name or alias of a terminal matches
+ one of the names in the list, the entry will be written or
translated as normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
- it. The option value is interpreted as a file containing the
+ it. The option value is interpreted as a file containing the
list if it contains a '/'. (Note: depending on how tic was com-
piled, this option may require -I or -C.)
- -f Display complex terminfo strings which contain
+ -f Display complex terminfo strings which contain
if/then/else/endif expressions indented for readability.
- -G Display constant literals in decimal form rather than their
+ -G Display constant literals in decimal form rather than their
character equivalents.
- -g Display constant character literals in quoted form rather than
+ -g Display constant character literals in quoted form rather than
their decimal equivalents.
-I Force source translation to terminfo format.
@@ -184,24 +183,24 @@
-K Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to termcap format,
e.g., "\s" for space.
- -L Force source translation to terminfo format using the long C
+ -L Force source translation to terminfo format using the long C
variable names listed in <term.h>
-N Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating from termcap
- to terminfo, the compiler makes a number of assumptions about
- the defaults of string capabilities reset1_string, car-
+ to terminfo, the compiler makes a number of assumptions about
+ the defaults of string capabilities reset1_string, car-
riage_return, cursor_left, cursor_down, scroll_forward, tab,
newline, key_backspace, key_left, and key_down, then attempts to
- use obsolete termcap capabilities to deduce correct values. It
+ use obsolete termcap capabilities to deduce correct values. It
also normally suppresses output of obsolete termcap capabilities
- such as bs. This option forces a more literal translation that
+ such as bs. This option forces a more literal translation that
also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
- -odir Write compiled entries to given database location. Overrides
+ -odir Write compiled entries to given database location. Overrides
the TERMINFO environment variable.
- -Qn Rather than show source in terminfo (text) format, print the
- compiled (binary) format in hexadecimal or base64 form, depend-
+ -Qn Rather than show source in terminfo (text) format, print the
+ compiled (binary) format in hexadecimal or base64 form, depend-
ing on the option's value:
1 hexadecimal
@@ -214,35 +213,35 @@
source.
-Rsubset
- Restrict output to a given subset. This option is for use with
- archaic versions of terminfo like those on SVr1, Ultrix, or
- HP/UX that do not support the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses ter-
- minfo; and outright broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their
- own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available subsets
+ Restrict output to a given subset. This option is for use with
+ archaic versions of terminfo like those on SVr1, Ultrix, or
+ HP/UX that do not support the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses ter-
+ minfo; and outright broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their
+ own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available subsets
are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX"; see terminfo(5) for
details.
- -r Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining tc capabili-
- ties) even when doing translation to termcap format. This may
- be needed if you are preparing a termcap file for a termcap
- library (such as GNU termcap through version 1.3 or BSD termcap
- through 4.3BSD) that does not handle multiple tc capabilities
+ -r Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining tc capabili-
+ ties) even when doing translation to termcap format. This may
+ be needed if you are preparing a termcap file for a termcap
+ library (such as GNU termcap through version 1.3 or BSD termcap
+ through 4.3BSD) that does not handle multiple tc capabilities
per entry.
- -s Summarize the compile by showing the database location into
- which entries are written, and the number of entries which are
+ -s Summarize the compile by showing the database location into
+ which entries are written, and the number of entries which are
compiled.
- -T eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text. This is
- mainly useful for testing and analysis, since the compiled
- descriptions are limited (e.g., 1023 for termcap, 4096 for ter-
+ -T eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text. This is
+ mainly useful for testing and analysis, since the compiled
+ descriptions are limited (e.g., 1023 for termcap, 4096 for ter-
minfo).
- -t tells tic to discard commented-out capabilities. Normally when
- translating from terminfo to termcap, untranslatable capabili-
+ -t tells tic to discard commented-out capabilities. Normally when
+ translating from terminfo to termcap, untranslatable capabili-
ties are commented-out.
- -U tells tic to not post-process the data after parsing the source
+ -U tells tic to not post-process the data after parsing the source
file. Normally, it infers data which is commonly missing in older
terminfo data, or in termcaps.
@@ -252,9 +251,9 @@
-vn specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error trace
information showing tic's progress.
- The optional parameter n is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive,
+ The optional parameter n is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive,
indicating the desired level of detail of information. If ncurses
- is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is
+ is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is
ignored. If n is omitted, the default level is 1. If n is speci-
fied and greater than 1, the level of detail is increased.
@@ -276,88 +275,88 @@
If the debug level n is not given, it is taken to be one.
- -W By itself, the -w option will not force long strings to be
+ -W By itself, the -w option will not force long strings to be
wrapped. Use the -W option to do this.
- If you specify both -f and -W options, the latter is ignored when
+ If you specify both -f and -W options, the latter is ignored when
-f has already split the line.
-wn specifies the width of the output. The parameter is optional. If
it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
- -x Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That is, if you sup-
- ply a capability name which tic does not recognize, it will infer
- its type (boolean, number or string) from the syntax and make an
- extended table entry for that. User-defined capability strings
+ -x Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That is, if you sup-
+ ply a capability name which tic does not recognize, it will infer
+ its type (boolean, number or string) from the syntax and make an
+ extended table entry for that. User-defined capability strings
whose name begins with "k" are treated as function keys.
- file contains one or more terminfo terminal descriptions in source
- format [see terminfo(5)]. Each description in the file
+ file contains one or more terminfo terminal descriptions in source
+ format [see terminfo(5)]. Each description in the file
describes the capabilities of a particular terminal.
- If file is "-", then the data is read from the standard input.
+ If file is "-", then the data is read from the standard input.
The file parameter may also be the path of a character-device.
- All but one of the capabilities recognized by tic are documented in
+ All but one of the capabilities recognized by tic are documented in
terminfo(5). The exception is the use capability.
When a use=entry-name field is discovered in a terminal entry currently
- being compiled, tic reads in the binary from
- /usr/local/ncurses/lib/terminfo to complete the entry. (Entries cre-
- ated from file will be used first. tic duplicates the capabilities in
- entry-name for the current entry, with the exception of those capabili-
- ties that explicitly are defined in the current entry.
-
- When an entry, e.g., entry_name_1, contains a use=entry_name_2 field,
- any canceled capabilities in entry_name_2 must also appear in
- entry_name_1 before use= for these capabilities to be canceled in
+ being compiled, tic reads in the binary from /usr/share/terminfo to
+ complete the entry. (Entries created from file will be used first.
+ tic duplicates the capabilities in entry-name for the current entry,
+ with the exception of those capabilities that explicitly are defined in
+ the current entry.
+
+ When an entry, e.g., entry_name_1, contains a use=entry_name_2 field,
+ any canceled capabilities in entry_name_2 must also appear in
+ entry_name_1 before use= for these capabilities to be canceled in
entry_name_1.
Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name field cannot
- exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding the maximum alias length
+ exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding the maximum alias length
(32 characters on systems with long filenames, 14 characters otherwise)
- will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning message
+ will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning message
will be printed.
- There is some evidence that historic tic implementations treated
- description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or
+ There is some evidence that historic tic implementations treated
+ description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or
short names. This tic does not do that, but it does warn when descrip-
- tion fields may be treated that way and check them for dangerous char-
+ tion fields may be treated that way and check them for dangerous char-
acters.
- Unlike the SVr4 tic command, this implementation can actually compile
- termcap sources. In fact, entries in terminfo and termcap syntax can
- be mixed in a single source file. See terminfo(5) for the list of
+ Unlike the SVr4 tic command, this implementation can actually compile
+ termcap sources. In fact, entries in terminfo and termcap syntax can
+ be mixed in a single source file. See terminfo(5) for the list of
termcap names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.
- The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution rules for use
- capabilities. This implementation of tic will find use targets any-
- where in the source file, or anywhere in the file tree rooted at TER-
- MINFO (if TERMINFO is defined), or in the user's $HOME/.terminfo data-
+ The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution rules for use
+ capabilities. This implementation of tic will find use targets any-
+ where in the source file, or anywhere in the file tree rooted at TER-
+ MINFO (if TERMINFO is defined), or in the user's $HOME/.terminfo data-
base (if it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file tree of
compiled entries.
- The error messages from this tic have the same format as GNU C error
+ The error messages from this tic have the same format as GNU C error
messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's compile facility.
- The -0, -1, -C, -G, -I, -N, -R, -T, -V, -a, -e, -f, -g, -o, -r, -s, -t
+ The -0, -1, -C, -G, -I, -N, -R, -T, -V, -a, -e, -f, -g, -o, -r, -s, -t
and -x options are not supported under SVr4. The SVr4 -c mode does not
report bad use links.
- System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your
+ System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your
$HOME/.terminfo database unless TERMINFO is explicitly set to it.
- /usr/local/ncurses/lib/terminfo/?/*
+ /usr/share/terminfo/?/*
Compiled terminal description database.
@@ -365,7 +364,7 @@
infocmp(1m), captoinfo(1m), infotocap(1m), toe(1m), curses(3x),
term(5). terminfo(5).
- This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20170819).
+ This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20171028).