X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Ftset.1;h=063f5066eea47ffe27f1a7355991d026392374de;hp=152618adfd46ba97217e1ec72f5c0062dc27279b;hb=f6b436c4fb50275df43ea10ba9c744fe195a327d;hpb=f344f8539c1543f8cd65a5bb142dbaf23b9421d2 diff --git a/man/tset.1 b/man/tset.1 index 152618ad..063f5066 100644 --- a/man/tset.1 +++ b/man/tset.1 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey * +.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 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 * @@ -26,14 +27,15 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: tset.1,v 1.48 2017/01/14 20:55:07 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: tset.1,v 1.58 2021/09/18 21:21:55 tom Exp $ .TH @TSET@ 1 "" .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq .el .ds `` `` .ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq .el .ds '' '' .de bP -.IP \(bu 4 +.ie n .IP \(bu 4 +.el .IP \(bu 2 .. .SH NAME \fB@TSET@\fR, \fB@RESET@\fR \- terminal initialization @@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ standard output, .bP standard input and .bP -ultimately \*(lq/dev/tty\*(rq +ultimately \*(``/dev/tty\*('' .PP to obtain terminal settings. Having retrieved these settings, \fB@TSET@\fP remembers which @@ -81,7 +83,8 @@ option mappings are then applied (see the section .B TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING for more information). Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark (\*(``?\*(''), the -user is prompted for confirmation of the terminal type. An empty +user is prompted for confirmation of the terminal type. +An empty response confirms the type, or, another type can be entered to specify a new type. Once the terminal type has been determined, @@ -100,7 +103,8 @@ and \fBCOLUMNS\fP variables specify this), use this to set the operating system's notion of the window size. .bP if the \*(``\fB\-c\fP\*('' option is enabled, -the backspace, interrupt and line kill characters (among many other things) are set +the backspace, interrupt and line kill characters +(among many other things) are set .bP unless the \*(``\fB\-I\fP\*('' option is enabled, the terminal @@ -139,26 +143,26 @@ you may have to type to work, as carriage-return may no longer work in the abnormal state. .bP Also, the terminal will often not echo the command. -.SH OPTIONS +.SH OPTIONS .PP The options are as follows: .TP 5 .B \-c Set control characters and modes. .TP 5 -.B \-e +.BI \-e\ ch Set the erase character to \fIch\fR. .TP .B \-I Do not send the terminal or tab initialization strings to the terminal. .TP -.B \-i +.BI \-i\ ch Set the interrupt character to \fIch\fR. .TP -.B \-k +.BI \-k\ ch Set the line kill character to \fIch\fR. .TP -.B \-m +.BI \-m\ mapping Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal. See the section .B TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING @@ -205,11 +209,13 @@ the terminal's capabilities into the shell's environment. This is done using the \fB\-s\fR option. .PP When the \fB\-s\fR option is specified, the commands to enter the information -into the shell's environment are written to the standard output. If +into the shell's environment are written to the standard output. +If the \fBSHELL\fR environmental variable ends in \*(``csh\*('', the commands are for \fBcsh\fR, otherwise, they are for \fBsh\fR. Note, the \fBcsh\fR commands set and unset the shell variable -\fBnoglob\fR, leaving it unset. The following line in the \fB.login\fR +\fBnoglob\fR, leaving it unset. +The following line in the \fB.login\fR or \fB.profile\fR files will initialize the environment correctly: .sp eval \`@TSET@ \-s options ... \` @@ -230,7 +236,8 @@ guess that I'm on that kind of terminal\*(''. .PP The argument to the \fB\-m\fR option consists of an optional port type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specification, an optional -colon (\*(``:\*('') character and a terminal type. The port type is a +colon (\*(``:\*('') character and a terminal type. +The port type is a string (delimited by either the operator or the colon character). The operator may be any combination of \*(``>\*('', @@ -246,14 +253,17 @@ of the standard error output (which should be the control terminal). The terminal type is a string. .PP If the terminal type is not specified on the command line, the \fB\-m\fR -mappings are applied to the terminal type. If the port type and baud +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 +replaces the current type. +If more than one mapping is specified, the first applicable mapping is used. .PP For example, consider the following mapping: \fBdialup>9600:vt100\fR. The port type is dialup , the operator is >, the baud rate -specification is 9600, and the terminal type is vt100. The result of +specification is 9600, and the terminal type is vt100. +The result of this mapping is to specify that if the terminal type is \fBdialup\fR, and the baud rate is greater than 9600 baud, a terminal type of \fBvt100\fR will be used. @@ -274,33 +284,24 @@ and that \fBcsh\fR users insert a backslash character (\*(``\e\*('') before any exclamation marks (\*(``!\*(''). .SH HISTORY .PP -A \fBreset\fP command appeared in 2BSD (April 1979), written by Kurt Shoens. +A \fBreset\fP command appeared in 1BSD (March 1978), written by Kurt Shoens. This program set the \fIerase\fP and \fIkill\fP characters to \fB^H\fP (backspace) and \fB@\fP respectively. Mark Horton improved that in 3BSD (October 1979), adding \fIintr\fP, \fIquit\fP, \fIstart\fP/\fIstop\fP and \fIeof\fP characters as well as changing the program to avoid modifying any user settings. +That version of \fBreset\fP did not use the termcap database. .PP -Later in 4.1BSD (December 1980), -Mark Horton added a call to the \fBtset\fP program -using the \fB\-I\fP and \fB\-Q\fP options, i.e., -using that to improve the terminal modes. -With those options, -that version of \fBreset\fP did not use the termcap database. -.PP -A separate \fBtset\fP command was provided in 2BSD by Eric Allman. -While the oldest published source (from 1979) -provides both \fBtset\fP and \fBreset\fP, -Allman's comments in the 2BSD source code indicate +A separate \fBtset\fP command was provided in 1BSD by Eric Allman, +using the termcap database. +Allman's comments in the source code indicate that he began work in October 1977, continuing development over the next few years. .PP -In September 1980, Eric Allman modified \fBtset\fP, -adding the code from the existing \*(lqreset\*(rq -feature when \fBtset\fP was invoked as \fBreset\fP. -Rather than simply copying the existing program, -in this merged version, \fBtset\fP used the termcap database -to do additional (re)initialization of the terminal. +According to comments in the source code, +the \fBtset\fP program was modified in September 1980, +to use logic copied from the 3BSD \*(``reset\*('' +when it was invoked as \fBreset\fP. This version appeared in 4.1cBSD, late in 1982. .PP Other developers (e.g., Keith Bostic and Jim Bloom) @@ -324,9 +325,10 @@ In fact, the commonly-used \fBreset\fP utility is always an alias for \fBtset\fP. .PP The \fB@TSET@\fR utility provides for backward-compatibility with BSD -environments (under most modern UNIXes, \fB/etc/inittab\fR and \fIgetty\fR(1) +environments (under most modern UNIXes, \fB/etc/inittab\fR and \fBgetty\fR(1) can set \fBTERM\fR appropriately for each dial-up line; this obviates what was -\fB@TSET@\fR's most important use). This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD +\fB@TSET@\fR's most important use). +This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD \fBtset\fP, with a few exceptions specified here. .PP A few options are different @@ -351,9 +353,11 @@ None of them were documented in 4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at best. The \fB\-a\fR, \fB\-d\fR, and \fB\-p\fR 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 +widespread use. +It is strongly recommended that any usage of these three options be changed to use the \fB\-m\fR option instead. -The \fB\-a\fP, \fB\-d\fP, and \fB\-p\fR options are therefore omitted from the usage summary above. +The \fB\-a\fP, \fB\-d\fP, and \fB\-p\fR options +are therefore omitted from the usage summary above. .PP Very old systems, e.g., 3BSD, used a different terminal driver which was replaced in 4BSD in the early 1980s. @@ -420,14 +424,14 @@ system port name to terminal type mapping database (BSD versions only). terminal capability database .SH SEE ALSO .hy 0 -csh(1), -sh(1), -stty(1), -curs_terminfo(3X), -tty(4), -terminfo(5), -ttys(5), -environ(7) +\fBcsh\fP(1), +\fBsh\fP(1), +\fBstty\fP(1), +\fBcurs_terminfo\fP(3X), +\fBtty\fP(4), +\fBterminfo\fP(5), +\fBttys\fP(5), +\fBenviron\fP(7) .hy .PP This describes \fBncurses\fR