X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fterm.5;h=e999b2e8c5142e5edf1138d8b2b5c64c0f3edbdb;hp=63a2d35f8411230632a0b9dd3f979b1e9e4edce4;hb=55ccd2b959766810cf7db8d1c4462f338ce0afc8;hpb=c633e5103a29a38532cf1925257b91cea33fd090 diff --git a/man/term.5 b/man/term.5 index 63a2d35f..e999b2e8 100644 --- a/man/term.5 +++ b/man/term.5 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: term.5,v 1.10 2000/08/13 01:56:45 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: term.5,v 1.16 2004/07/05 13:16:08 tom Exp $ .TH TERM 5 .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ term \- format of compiled term file. .PP Compiled terminfo descriptions are placed under the directory \fB\*d\fP. In order to avoid a linear search of a huge \s-1UNIX\s+1 system directory, a -two-level scheme is used: \fB\*b/c/name\fP +two-level scheme is used: \fB\*d/c/name\fP where .I name is the name of the terminal, and @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ An 8 or more bit byte is assumed, but no assumptions about byte ordering or sign extension are made. .PP The compiled file is created with the -.I tic +.I tic program, and read by the routine .IR setupterm . The file is divided into six parts: @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ Short integers are stored in two 8-bit bytes. The first byte contains the least significant 8 bits of the value, and the second byte contains the most significant 8 bits. (Thus, the value represented is 256*second+first.) -The value \-1 is represented by the two bytes 0377, 0377; other negative -values are illegal. This value generally +The value -1 is represented by the two bytes 0377, 0377; other negative +values are illegal. This value generally means that the corresponding capability is missing from this terminal. Note that this format corresponds to the hardware of the \s-1VAX\s+1 and \s-1PDP\s+1-11 (that is, little-endian machines). @@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ All short integers are aligned on a short word boundary. The numbers section is similar to the flags section. Each capability takes up two bytes, and is stored as a little-endian short integer. -If the value represented is \-1, the capability is taken to be missing. +If the value represented is -1, the capability is taken to be missing. .PP The strings section is also similar. Each capability is stored as a short integer, in the format above. -A value of \-1 means the capability is missing. +A value of -1 means the capability is missing. Otherwise, the value is taken as an offset from the beginning of the string table. Special characters in ^X or \ec notation are stored in their @@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ As an example, here is a hex dump of the description for the Lear-Siegler ADM-3, a popular though rather stupid early terminal: .nf .sp -adm3a|lsi adm3a, - am, - cols#80, lines#24, - bel=^G, clear=\032$<1>, cr=^M, cub1=^H, cud1=^J, - cuf1=^L, cup=\E=%p1%{32}%+%c%p2%{32}%+%c, cuu1=^K, - home=^^, ind=^J, +adm3a|lsi adm3a, + am, + cols#80, lines#24, + bel=^G, clear=\032$<1>, cr=^M, cub1=^H, cud1=^J, + cuf1=^L, cup=\\E=%p1%{32}%+%c%p2%{32}%+%c, cuu1=^K, + home=^^, ind=^J, .sp .ft CW \s-20000 1a 01 10 00 02 00 03 00 82 00 31 00 61 64 6d 33 ........ ..1.adm3 @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ Some limitations: total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name field cannot exceed 128 bytes. .SH FILES \*d/*/* compiled terminal capability data base -.SH "SEE ALSO" +.SH SEE ALSO \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n). .\"# .\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS