X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Ftset.1.html;h=81aabd663afa68e04076351f19c276943048f506;hp=f554a9c2a89b2f48af7bc4965dde3c5f3c217f90;hb=2e5d72d6396bb38a8d1d1b3534f62e28aebaa600;hpb=f367fa254ce3fe29710c86971f04e03111c2bd2c diff --git a/doc/html/man/tset.1.html b/doc/html/man/tset.1.html index f554a9c2..81aabd66 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/tset.1.html +++ b/doc/html/man/tset.1.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + @@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ tion, getty does this job by setting TERM according to the type passed to it by /etc/inittab.) - 4. The default terminal type, ``unknown''. + 4. The default terminal type, "unknown". If the terminal type was not specified on the command- line, the -m option mappings are then applied (see the section TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING for more information). Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark - (``?''), the user is prompted for confirmation of the ter- - minal type. An empty response confirms the type, or, + ("?"), the user is prompted for confirmation of the termi- + nal type. An empty response confirms the type, or, another type can be entered to specify a new type. Once the terminal type has been determined, the terminfo entry for the terminal is retrieved. If no terminfo entry is @@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ -r Print the terminal type to the standard error output. - -s Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize + -s Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize the environment variable TERM to the standard output. - See the section SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT for details. + See the section SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT for details. -V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits. @@ -155,23 +155,22 @@ The arguments for the -e, -i, and -k options may either be entered as actual characters or by using the `hat' nota- - tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as ``^H'' or - ``^h''. + tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as "^H" or "^h".

SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT

-       It  is  often  desirable  to  enter  the terminal type and
-       information about the  terminal's  capabilities  into  the
+       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.
 
        When the -s option is specified, the commands to enter the
-       information into the shell's environment  are  written  to
-       the  standard output.  If the SHELL environmental variable
-       ends in ``csh'', the commands are for csh, otherwise, they
-       are  for  sh.   Note,  the  csh commands set and unset the
-       shell variable noglob, leaving it  unset.   The  following
-       line  in  the .login or .profile files will initialize the
+       information  into  the  shell's environment are written to
+       the standard output.  If the SHELL environmental  variable
+       ends  in  "csh", the commands are for csh, otherwise, they
+       are for sh.  Note, the csh  commands  set  and  unset  the
+       shell  variable  noglob,  leaving it unset.  The following
+       line in the .login or .profile files will  initialize  the
        environment correctly:
 
            eval `tset -s options ... `
@@ -181,107 +180,107 @@
 

TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING

        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
-       variable  is often something generic like network, dialup,
-       or unknown.  When tset is used in a startup script  it  is
-       often  desirable  to provide information about the type of
+       derived  from the /etc/ttys file or the TERM environmental
+       variable is often something generic like network,  dialup,
+       or  unknown.   When tset is used in a startup script it is
+       often desirable to provide information about the  type  of
        terminal used on such ports.
 
-       The purpose of the -m option is to map from  some  set  of
-       conditions  to a terminal type, that is, to tell tset ``If
-       I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm  on
-       that kind of terminal''.
+       The  purpose  of  the -m option is to map from some set of
+       conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell  tset  "If
+       I'm  on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on
+       that kind of terminal".
 
        The argument to the -m option consists of an optional port
        type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specifi-
-       cation, an optional colon (``:'') character and a terminal
-       type.  The port type is a string (delimited by either  the
+       cation, an optional colon (":") character and  a  terminal
+       type.   The port type is a string (delimited by either the
        operator or the colon character).  The operator may be any
-       combination of ``>'', ``<'', ``@'', and ``!''; ``>'' means
-       greater  than, ``<'' means less than, ``@'' means equal to
-       and ``!'' inverts the sense of the test.  The baud rate is
-       specified  as  a  number and is compared with the speed of
-       the standard error output (which  should  be  the  control
-       terminal).  The terminal type is a string.
+       combination  of  ">", "<", "@", and "!"; ">" means greater
+       than, "<" means less than, "@"  means  equal  to  and  "!"
+       inverts the sense of the test.  The baud rate is specified
+       as a number and is compared with the speed of the standard
+       error  output (which should be the control terminal).  The
+       terminal type is a string.
 
        If the terminal type is not specified on the command line,
-       the -m mappings are applied to the terminal type.  If  the
-       port  type  and  baud rate match the mapping, the terminal
-       type specified in the mapping replaces the  current  type.
-       If  more than one mapping is specified, the first applica-
+       the  -m mappings are applied to the terminal type.  If the
+       port type and baud rate match the  mapping,  the  terminal
+       type  specified  in the mapping replaces the current type.
+       If more than one mapping is specified, the first  applica-
        ble mapping is used.
 
-       For   example,    consider    the    following    mapping:
+       For    example,    consider    the    following   mapping:
        dialup>9600:vt100.  The port type is dialup , the operator
-       is >, the baud rate specification is 9600, and the  termi-
+       is  >, the baud rate specification is 9600, and the termi-
        nal type is vt100.  The result of this mapping is to spec-
        ify that if the terminal type is dialup, and the baud rate
-       is  greater  than 9600 baud, a terminal type of vt100 will
+       is greater than 9600 baud, a terminal type of  vt100  will
        be used.
 
        If no baud rate is specified, the terminal type will match
        any baud rate.  If no port type is specified, the terminal
-       type  will  match  any  port  type.    For   example,   -m
+       type   will   match   any  port  type.   For  example,  -m
        dialup:vt100  -m  :?xterm  will  cause  any  dialup  port,
        regardless of baud rate, to match the terminal type vt100,
-       and  any  non-dialup  port type to match the terminal type
-       ?xterm.  Note, because of the leading question  mark,  the
-       user  will be queried on a default port as to whether they
+       and any non-dialup port type to match  the  terminal  type
+       ?xterm.   Note,  because of the leading question mark, the
+       user will be queried on a default port as to whether  they
        are actually using an xterm terminal.
 
-       No whitespace characters are permitted in  the  -m  option
-       argument.   Also,  to avoid problems with meta-characters,
-       it is suggested that the  entire  -m  option  argument  be
-       placed  within single quote characters, and that csh users
-       insert a backslash character (``\'') before  any  exclama-
-       tion marks (``!'').
+       No  whitespace  characters  are permitted in the -m option
+       argument.  Also, to avoid problems  with  meta-characters,
+       it  is  suggested  that  the  entire -m option argument be
+       placed within single quote characters, and that csh  users
+       insert  a backslash character ("\") before any exclamation
+       marks ("!").
 
 
 

HISTORY

-       The  tset command appeared in BSD 3.0.  The ncurses imple-
-       mentation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources  for
+       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>.
 
 
 

COMPATIBILITY

-       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
-       each  dial-up  line;  this  obviates  what was tset's most
-       important use).  This implementation behaves  like  4.4BSD
+       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
+       each dial-up line; this  obviates  what  was  tset's  most
+       important  use).   This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD
        tset, with a few exceptions specified here.
 
-       The  -S  option  of BSD tset no longer works; it prints an
+       The -S option of BSD tset no longer works;  it  prints  an
        error message to stderr and dies.  The -s option only sets
-       TERM,  not  TERMCAP.   Both  these changes are because the
-       TERMCAP variable is no longer  supported  under  terminfo-
+       TERM, not TERMCAP.  Both of these changes are because  the
+       TERMCAP  variable  is  no longer supported under terminfo-
        based ncurses, which makes tset -S useless (we made it die
        noisily rather than silently induce lossage).
 
-       There was an undocumented  4.4BSD  feature  that  invoking
+       There  was  an  undocumented  4.4BSD feature that invoking
        tset via a link named `TSET` (or via any other name begin-
-       ning with an upper-case letter) set the  terminal  to  use
+       ning  with  an  upper-case letter) set the terminal to use
        upper-case only.  This feature has been omitted.
 
-       The  -A,  -E,  -h, -u and -v options were deleted from the
-       tset utility in 4.4BSD.  None of them were  documented  in
-       4.3BSD  and  all  are of limited utility at best.  The -a,
+       The -A, -E, -h, -u and -v options were  deleted  from  the
+       tset  utility  in 4.4BSD.  None of them were documented in
+       4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at  best.   The  -a,
        -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
+       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
+       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.
@@ -295,7 +294,7 @@
             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
@@ -308,7 +307,7 @@
 

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
@@ -317,10 +316,10 @@
 
 

SEE ALSO

-       csh(1),  sh(1),  stty(1),  curs_terminfo(3x), tty(4), ter-
-       minfo(5), ttys(5), environ(7)
+       csh(1),   sh(1),   stty(1),   curs_terminfo(3x),   tty(4),
+       terminfo(5), ttys(5), environ(7)
 
-       This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20120107).
+       This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20131221).