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The options are as follows:
- -c Set control characters and modes. -e Set the erase
- character to ch.
+ -c Set control characters and modes.
+
+ -e Set the erase character to ch.
-I Do not send the terminal or tab initialization
strings to the terminal.
@@ -126,51 +127,51 @@
-k Set the line kill character to ch.
- -m Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
+ -m Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
See the section TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING for more infor-
mation.
- -Q Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt
+ -Q Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt
and line kill characters. Normally tset displays the
- values for control characters which differ from the
+ values for control characters which differ from the
system's default values.
- -q The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
- put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
+ -q The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
+ put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
The option `-' by itself is equivalent but archaic.
-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.
- -w Resize the window to match the size deduced via
+ -w Resize the window to match the size deduced via
setupterm. Normally this has no effect, unless
setupterm is not able to detect the window size.
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
+ entered as actual characters or by using the `hat' nota-
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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 ... `
@@ -180,107 +181,107 @@
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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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-
+ 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 (``!'').
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 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.
@@ -294,7 +295,7 @@
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
@@ -307,7 +308,7 @@
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
@@ -316,10 +317,10 @@
SEE ALSO
- csh(1), sh(1), stty(1), curs_terminfo(3x), tty(4), ter-
+ csh(1), sh(1), stty(1), curs_terminfo(3x), tty(4), ter-
minfo(5), ttys(5), environ(7)
- This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
+ This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20120107).