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diff --git a/man/tput.1 b/man/tput.1
index d17ffd1d..ad7e81a4 100644
--- a/man/tput.1
+++ b/man/tput.1
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.51 2017/01/14 20:49:40 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.57 2017/11/20 01:07:02 tom Exp $
 .TH @TPUT@ 1 ""
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .ds n 1
@@ -36,14 +36,15 @@
 .ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
 .el       .ds '' ''
 .de bP
-.IP \(bu 4
+.ie n  .IP \(bu 4
+.el    .IP \(bu 2
 ..
 .SH NAME
 \fB@TPUT@\fR, \fBreset\fR \- initialize a terminal or query terminfo database
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB@TPUT@\fR [\fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR] \fIcapname\fR [\fIparameters\fR]
 .br
-\fB@TPUT@\fR [\fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR] \fBclear\fR
+\fB@TPUT@\fR [\fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR] [\fB\-x\fP] \fBclear\fR
 .br
 \fB@TPUT@\fR [\fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR] \fBinit\fR
 .br
@@ -86,14 +87,6 @@ For a complete list of capabilities
 and the \fIcapname\fR associated with each, see \fBterminfo\fR(5).
 .SS Options
 .TP
-\fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR
-indicates the \fItype\fR of terminal.
-Normally this option is
-unnecessary, because the default is taken from the environment
-variable \fBTERM\fR.
-If \fB\-T\fR is specified, then the shell
-variables \fBLINES\fR and \fBCOLUMNS\fR will also be ignored.
-.TP
 \fB\-S\fR
 allows more than one capability per invocation of \fB@TPUT@\fR.  The
 capabilities must be passed to \fB@TPUT@\fR from the standard input
@@ -103,31 +96,49 @@ The \fB\-S\fR option changes the
 meaning of the \fB0\fR and \fB1\fR boolean and string exit codes (see the
 EXIT CODES section).
 .IP
-Again, \fB@TPUT@\fR uses a table and the presence of parameters in its input
+Because some capabilities may use
+\fIstring\fP parameters rather than \fInumbers\fP,
+\fB@TPUT@\fR uses a table and the presence of parameters in its input
 to decide whether to use \fBtparm\fR(3X),
 and how to interpret the parameters.
 .TP
+\fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR
+indicates the \fItype\fR of terminal.
+Normally this option is
+unnecessary, because the default is taken from the environment
+variable \fBTERM\fR.
+If \fB\-T\fR is specified, then the shell
+variables \fBLINES\fR and \fBCOLUMNS\fR will also be ignored.
+.TP
 \fB\-V\fR
 reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits.
+.TP
+.B \-x
+do not attempt to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer
+using the extended \*(``E3\*('' capability.
 .SS Commands
+A few commands (\fBinit\fP, \fBreset\fP and \fBlongname\fP) are
+special; they are defined by the \fB@TPUT@\fP program.
+The others are the names of \fIcapabilities\fP from the terminal database
+(see \fBterminfo\fR(5) for a list).
+Although \fBinit\fP and \fBreset\fP resemble capability names,
+\fB@TPUT@\fP uses several capabilities to perform these special functions.
 .TP
 \fIcapname\fR
-indicates the capability from the \fBterminfo\fR database.  When
-\fBtermcap\fR support is compiled in, the \fBtermcap\fR name for
-the capability is also accepted.
+indicates the capability from the terminal database.
 .IP
 If the capability is a string that takes parameters, the arguments
 following the capability will be used as parameters for the string.
 .IP
 Most parameters are numbers.
-Only a few terminfo capabilities require string parameters;
+Only a few terminal capabilities require string parameters;
 \fB@TPUT@\fR uses a table to decide which to pass as strings.
 Normally \fB@TPUT@\fR uses \fBtparm\fR(3X) to perform the substitution.
 If no parameters are given for the capability,
 \fB@TPUT@\fR writes the string without performing the substitution.
 .TP
 \fBinit\fR
-If the \fBterminfo\fR database is present and an entry for the user's
+If the terminal database is present and an entry for the user's
 terminal exists (see \fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR, above), the following will
 occur:
 .RS
@@ -144,7 +155,7 @@ standard output,
 .bP
 standard input and
 .bP
-ultimately \*(lq/dev/tty\*(rq
+ultimately \*(``/dev/tty\*(''
 .RE
 .IP
 to obtain terminal settings.
@@ -213,7 +224,7 @@ strings are, the \fIinitialization\fP strings will be output.
 Otherwise, \fBreset\fR acts identically to \fBinit\fR.
 .TP
 \fBlongname\fR
-If the \fBterminfo\fR database is present and an entry for the
+If the terminal database is present and an entry for the
 user's terminal exists (see \fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR above), then the long name
 of the terminal will be put out.  The long name is the last
 name in the first line of the terminal's description in the
@@ -272,7 +283,7 @@ terminal in the environmental variable \fBTERM\fR.
 .TP 5
 \fB@TPUT@ cup 0 0\fR
 Send the sequence to move the cursor to row \fB0\fR, column \fB0\fR
-(the upper left corner of the screen, usually known as the \*(lqhome\*(rq
+(the upper left corner of the screen, usually known as the \*(``home\*(''
 cursor position).
 .TP 5
 \fB@TPUT@ clear\fR
@@ -412,11 +423,23 @@ it accepted \fItermcap names\fP for other capabilities.
 Also, Bostic's BSD \fBtput\fP did not modify the terminal I/O modes
 as the earlier BSD \fBtset\fP had done.
 .PP
-At the same time, Bostic added a shell script named \*(lqclear\*(rq,
+At the same time, Bostic added a shell script named \*(``clear\*('',
 which used \fBtput\fP to clear the screen.
 .PP
 Both of these appeared in 4.4BSD,
-becoming the \*(lqmodern\*(rq BSD implementation of \fBtput\fP.
+becoming the \*(``modern\*('' BSD implementation of \fBtput\fP.
+.PP
+This implementation of \fBtput\fP began from a different source than
+AT&T or BSD: Ross Ridge's \fImytinfo\fP package, published on
+\fIcomp.sources.unix\fP in December 1992.
+Ridge's program made more sophisticated use of the terminal capabilities
+than the BSD program.
+Eric Raymond used the \fBtput\fP program
+(and other parts of \fImytinfo\fP) in ncurses in June 1995.
+Using the portions dealing with terminal capabilities
+almost without change,
+Raymond made improvements to the way the command-line parameters
+were handled.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 .PP
 This implementation of \fBtput\fP differs from AT&T \fBtput\fP in
@@ -430,7 +453,7 @@ may not use the standard output.
 The AT&T implementation's \fBinit\fP and \fBreset\fP commands
 use the BSD (4.1c) \fBtset\fP source, which manipulates terminal modes.
 It successively tries standard output, standard error, standard input
-before falling back to \*(lq/dev/tty\*(rq and finally just assumes
+before falling back to \*(``/dev/tty\*('' and finally just assumes
 a 1200Bd terminal.
 When updating terminal modes, it ignores errors.
 .IP
@@ -453,6 +476,25 @@ This implementation uses a table to determine the parameter types for
 the standard \fIcapname\fR operands, and an internal library
 function to analyze nonstandard \fIcapname\fR operands.
 .PP
+This implementation (unlike others) can accept both \fItermcap\fP
+and \fIterminfo\fP names for the \fIcapname\fP feature,
+if
+\fItermcap\fR support is compiled in.
+However, the predefined \fItermcap\fP and \fIterminfo\fP names have two
+ambiguities in this case (and the \fIterminfo\fP name is assumed):
+.bP
+The \fItermcap\fP name \fBdl\fP corresponds to
+the \fIterminfo\fP name \fBdl1\fP (delete one line).
+.br
+The \fIterminfo\fP name \fBdl\fP corresponds to
+the \fItermcap\fP name \fBDL\fP (delete a given number of lines).
+.bP
+The \fItermcap\fP name \fBed\fP corresponds to
+the \fIterminfo\fP name \fBrmdc\fP (end delete mode).
+.br
+The \fIterminfo\fP name \fBed\fP corresponds to
+the \fItermcap\fP name \fBcd\fP (clear to end of screen).
+.PP
 The \fBlongname\fR and \fB\-S\fR options, and the parameter-substitution
 features used in the \fBcup\fR example,
 were not supported in BSD curses before 4.3reno (1989) or in