- The location of the compiled <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database is taken
- from the environment variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> . If the variable
- is not defined, or the terminal is not found in that loca-
- tion, the system <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database, in <STRONG>/usr/share/ter-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>minfo</STRONG>, will be used. The options <STRONG>-A</STRONG> and <STRONG>-B</STRONG> may be used to
- override this location. The <STRONG>-A</STRONG> option will set <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>
- for the first <EM>termname</EM> and the <STRONG>-B</STRONG> option will set <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>
- for the other <EM>termnames</EM>. With this, it is possible to
- compare descriptions for a terminal with the same name
- located in two different databases. This is useful for
- comparing descriptions for the same terminal created by
- different people.
+ Like other <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> utilities, infocmp looks for the termi-
+ nal descriptions in several places. You can use the <STRONG>TER-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>MINFO</STRONG> and <STRONG>TERMINFO_DIRS</STRONG> environment variables to override
+ the compiled-in default list of places to search (see
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> for details).
+
+ You can also use the options <STRONG>-A</STRONG> and <STRONG>-B</STRONG> to override the
+ list of places to search when comparing terminal descrip-
+ tions:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>-A</STRONG> option sets the location for the first <EM>termname</EM>
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The <STRONG>-B</STRONG> option sets the location for the other
+ <EM>termnames</EM>.
+
+ Using these options, it is possible to compare descrip-
+ tions for a terminal with the same name located in two
+ different databases. For instance, you can use this fea-
+ ture for comparing descriptions for the same terminal cre-
+ ated by different people.