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 @@

COMPATIBILITY

+       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 @@
 
 

FILES

        /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).