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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
@@ -45,21 +45,20 @@
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-
+
tset, reset - terminal initialization
-
-
+
tset [-IQVcqrsw] [-] [-e ch] [-i ch] [-k ch] [-m mapping]
[terminal]
reset [-IQVcqrsw] [-] [-e ch] [-i ch] [-k ch] [-m mapping]
[terminal]
-
-
+
+
+
Tset initializes terminals. Tset first determines the
type of terminal that you are using. This determination
is done as follows, using the first terminal type found.
@@ -99,6 +98,8 @@
versus the other initialization. If neither option is
given, both are assumed.
+
+
When invoked as reset, tset sets cooked and echo modes,
turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline transla-
tion and resets any unset special characters to their
@@ -114,6 +115,8 @@
the abnormal state. Also, the terminal will often not
echo the command.
+
+
The options are as follows:
-c Set control characters and modes.
@@ -158,8 +161,7 @@
tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as "^H" or "^h".
-
-
+
It is often desirable to enter the terminal type and
information about the terminal's capabilities into the
shell's environment. This is done using the -s option.
@@ -176,8 +178,7 @@
eval `tset -s options ... `
-
-
+
When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the
current system information is incorrect) the terminal type
derived from the /etc/ttys file or the TERM environmental
@@ -236,16 +237,18 @@
marks ("!").
-
-
+
The tset command appeared in BSD 3.0. The ncurses imple-
mentation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources for
a terminfo environment by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyr-
sus.com>.
-
-
+
+ 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
@@ -271,30 +274,36 @@
-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.
-
-
+
The tset command uses these environment variables:
SHELL
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
@@ -304,22 +313,20 @@
looking for the terminal description.
-
-
+
/etc/ttys
- system port name to terminal type mapping database
+ system port name to terminal type mapping database
(BSD versions only).
/usr/share/terminfo
terminal capability database
-
-
+
csh(1), sh(1), stty(1), curs_terminfo(3x), tty(4),
terminfo(5), ttys(5), environ(7)
- This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20150808).
+ This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20160514).
@@ -329,7 +336,13 @@