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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
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- * @Id: tput.1,v 1.51 2017/01/14 20:49:40 tom Exp @
+ * @Id: tput.1,v 1.54 2017/01/29 00:51:08 tom Exp @
-->
@@ -114,16 +114,22 @@
+ A few commands (init, reset and longname) are special;
+ they are defined by the tput program. The others are the
+ names of capabilities from the terminal database (see ter-
+ minfo(5) for a list). Although init and reset resemble
+ capability names, tput uses several capabilities to per-
+ form these special functions.
+
capname
- indicates the capability from the terminfo data-
- base. When termcap support is compiled in, the
- termcap name for the capability is also accepted.
+ indicates the capability from the terminal data-
+ base.
If the capability is a string that takes parame-
ters, the arguments following the capability will
be used as parameters for the string.
- Most parameters are numbers. Only a few terminfo
+ Most parameters are numbers. Only a few terminal
capabilities require string parameters; tput uses a
table to decide which to pass as strings. Normally
tput uses tparm(3x) to perform the substitution.
@@ -131,7 +137,7 @@
writes the string without performing the substitu-
tion.
- init If the terminfo database is present and an entry
+ init If the terminal database is present and an entry
for the user's terminal exists (see -Ttype, above),
the following will occur:
@@ -203,7 +209,7 @@
Otherwise, reset acts identically to init.
longname
- If the terminfo database is present and an entry
+ If the terminal database is present and an entry
for the user's terminal exists (see -Ttype above),
then the long name of the terminal will be put out.
The long name is the last name in the first line of
@@ -411,6 +417,16 @@
Both of these appeared in 4.4BSD, becoming the "modern"
BSD implementation of tput.
+ This implementation of tput began from a different source
+ than AT&T or BSD: Ross Ridge's mytinfo package, published
+ on comp.sources.unix in December 1992. Ridge's program
+ made more sophisticated use of the terminal capabilities
+ than the BSD program. Eric Raymond used the tput program
+ (and other parts of mytinfo) in ncurses in June 1995.
+ Using the portions dealing with terminal capabilities
+ almost without change, Raymond made improvements to the
+ way the command-line parameters were handled.
+
This implementation of tput differs from AT&T tput in two
@@ -449,6 +465,22 @@
an internal library function to analyze nonstandard
capname operands.
+ This implementation (unlike others) can accept both term-
+ cap and terminfo names for the capname feature, if termcap
+ support is compiled in. However, the predefined termcap
+ and terminfo names have two ambiguities in this case (and
+ the terminfo name is assumed):
+
+ o The termcap name dl corresponds to the terminfo name
+ dl1 (delete one line).
+ The terminfo name dl corresponds to the termcap name
+ DL (delete a given number of lines).
+
+ o The termcap name ed corresponds to the terminfo name
+ rmdc (end delete mode).
+ The terminfo name ed corresponds to the termcap name
+ cd (clear to end of screen).
+
The longname and -S options, and the parameter-substitu-
tion features used in the cup example, were not supported
in BSD curses before 4.3reno (1989) or in AT&T/USL curses
@@ -498,7 +530,7 @@
clear(1), stty(1), tabs(1), tset(1), terminfo(5),
curs_termcap(3x).
- This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20170114).
+ This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20170429).