X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Ftset.1.html;h=3ecc39a295096408e59f7c45f5e0aba36c8b68b3;hp=25da9be737e0cb37d4f522c089051f0806fb64bd;hb=5dbe81a41e3c75806996cd762b9e55dcc9edb835;hpb=6208c89f98f1cf9fe0980bd8e791846ce007a13d diff --git a/doc/html/man/tset.1.html b/doc/html/man/tset.1.html index 25da9be7..3ecc39a2 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/tset.1.html +++ b/doc/html/man/tset.1.html @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * * authorization. * **************************************************************************** - * @Id: tset.1,v 1.31 2016/01/30 15:41:41 tom Exp @ + * @Id: tset.1,v 1.33 2016/04/16 18:48:44 tom Exp @ --> @@ -245,6 +245,10 @@
+ Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications + Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents + tset or reset. + The tset utility has been provided for backward-compati- bility with BSD environments (under most modern UNIXes, /etc/inittab and getty(1) can set TERM appropriately for @@ -270,16 +274,23 @@ -d, and -p 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 -m option instead. The -n - option remains, but has no effect. The -adnp options are - therefore omitted from the usage summary above. - - It is still permissible to specify the -e, -i, and -k - options without arguments, although it is strongly recom- - mended that such usage be fixed to explicitly specify the + options be changed to use the -m option instead. The -a, + -d, and -p options are therefore omitted from the usage + summary above. + + Very old systems, e.g., 3BSD, used a different terminal + driver which was replaced in 4BSD in the early 1980s. To + accommodate these older systems, the 4BSD tset provided a + -n option to specify that the new terminal driver should + be used. This implementation does not provide that + choice. + + It is still permissible to specify the -e, -i, and -k + options without arguments, although it is strongly recom- + mended that such usage be fixed to explicitly specify the character. - As of 4.4BSD, executing tset as reset no longer implies + As of 4.4BSD, executing tset as reset no longer implies the -Q option. Also, the interaction between the - option and the terminal argument in some historic implementations of tset has been removed. @@ -292,7 +303,7 @@ tells tset whether to initialize TERM using sh or csh syntax. - TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is + TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is distinct, though many are similar. TERMCAP @@ -304,7 +315,7 @@
/etc/ttys - system port name to terminal type mapping database + system port name to terminal type mapping database (BSD versions only). /usr/share/terminfo @@ -315,7 +326,7 @@ csh(1), sh(1), stty(1), curs_terminfo(3x), tty(4), terminfo(5), ttys(5), environ(7) - This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20160130). + This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20160514).