X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fterm.7;h=7eda6fbd58701a2003a43446d30e707dcba941cf;hp=e3be223b0424cb3ddeb82912067f4fa35f24e16f;hb=3511767aa77f332927de0c4a610f9fb37ea18101;hpb=a8987e73ec254703634802b4f7ee30d3a485524d diff --git a/man/term.7 b/man/term.7 index e3be223b..7eda6fbd 100644 --- a/man/term.7 +++ b/man/term.7 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2007 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 * @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.14 2003/05/10 20:33:49 jmc Exp $ -.TH TERM 7 +.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.18 2007/06/02 20:40:07 tom Exp $ +.TH term 7 .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ .SH NAME @@ -65,16 +65,16 @@ which you wish to override the system default type for your line. .PP Terminal type descriptions are stored as files of capability data underneath \*d. To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do - - toe | more - +.sp + @TOE@ | more +.sp from your shell. These capability files are in a binary format optimized for retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based \fBtermcap\fR format they replace); -to examine an entry, you must use the \fBinfocmp\fR(1) command. Invoke it as -follows: - - infocmp \fIentry-name\fR - +to examine an entry, you must use the \fB@INFOCMP@\fR(1M) command. +Invoke it as follows: +.sp + @INFOCMP@ \fIentry-name\fR +.sp where \fIentry-name\fR is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the name of its capability file the subdirectory of \*d named for its first letter). This command dumps a capability file in the text format described by @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ i.e. \fBlinux\fR, \fBbsdos\fR, \fBfreebsd\fR, \fBnetbsd\fR. It should multi-platform environment! If a model number follows, it should indicate either the OS release level or the console driver release level. .PP -The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it doesn't fit one of the +The root name for a terminal emulator (assuming it does not fit one of the standard ANSI or vt100 types) should be the program name or a readily recognizable abbreviation of it (i.e. \fBversaterm\fR, \fBctrm\fR). .PP