X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Ftic.1m;h=a3b169173d5c1ac7530adcb422599b64c5b803cc;hp=c3322e6703e2ea5e8834622280a5889a2f4ca1f7;hb=8f6d94b8d6211a2323caef53fa4c96c475ec9a62;hpb=fb6c095b1b63de26712d67de11dc6e35ea223f16 diff --git a/man/tic.1m b/man/tic.1m index c3322e67..a3b16917 100644 --- a/man/tic.1m +++ b/man/tic.1m @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 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: tic.1m,v 1.65 2017/07/08 19:48:37 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.68 2019/05/18 21:59:56 tom Exp $ .TH @TIC@ 1M "" .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq .el .ds `` `` @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ .de bP -.IP \(bu 4 +.ie n .IP \(bu 4 +.el .IP \(bu 2 .. .SH NAME \fB@TIC@\fR \- the \fIterminfo\fR entry-description compiler @@ -171,8 +172,8 @@ the string will not convert completely. .RE .TP \fB\-c\fR -tells \fB@TIC@\fP to only check \fIfile\fR for errors, including syntax problems and -bad use links. +tells \fB@TIC@\fP to only check \fIfile\fR for errors, +including syntax problems and bad use-links. If you specify \fB\-C\fR (\fB\-I\fR) with this option, the code will print warnings about entries which, after use resolution, are more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. @@ -204,7 +205,8 @@ the list, the entry will be written or translated as normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for it. The option value is interpreted as a file containing the list if it contains a '/'. -(Note: depending on how tic was compiled, this option may require \fB\-I\fR or \fB\-C\fR.) +(Note: depending on how @TIC@ was compiled, +this option may require \fB\-I\fR or \fB\-C\fR.) .TP \fB\-f\fR Display complex terminfo strings which contain if/then/else/endif expressions @@ -272,7 +274,8 @@ versions of terminfo like those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that do not support the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and outright broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available subsets -are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX"; see \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) for details. +are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX"; +see \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) for details. .TP \fB\-r\fR Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining tc capabilities) even @@ -355,7 +358,7 @@ The parameter is optional. If it is omitted, it defaults to 60. .TP \fB\-x\fR -Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. +Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined (see \fBuser_caps(\*n)\fP). That is, if you supply a capability name which \fB@TIC@\fP does not recognize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or string) from the syntax and make an extended table entry for that. @@ -397,7 +400,8 @@ The name field cannot exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding the maximum alias length (32 characters on systems with long filenames, 14 characters otherwise) -will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning message will be printed. +will be truncated to the maximum alias length +and a warning message will be printed. .SH COMPATIBILITY There is some evidence that historic \fB@TIC@\fR implementations treated description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or @@ -463,6 +467,7 @@ Compiled terminal description database. \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterm\fR(\*n). \fBterminfo\fR(\*n). +\fBuser_caps\fR(\*n). .PP This describes \fBncurses\fR version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).