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-<STRONG><A HREF="term.7.html">term(7)</A></STRONG>
Miscellaneous Information Manual <STRONG><A HREF="term.7.html">term(7)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="term.7.html">term(7)</A></STRONG>
Miscellaneous <STRONG><A HREF="term.7.html">term(7)</A></STRONG>
termcap entry for your type is not compatible with yours, but this
situation is rare and can almost always be avoided by explicitly
exporting "vt100" (assuming you are in fact using a VT100-superset
- console, terminal, or terminal emulator.)
+ console, terminal, or terminal emulator).
In any case, you are free to override the system <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> setting to your
taste in your shell profile. The <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG> utility may be of assistance;
underneath /usr/share/terminfo. To browse a list of all terminal names
recognized by the system, do
- toe | more
+ toe | more
from your shell. These capability files are in a binary format
optimized for retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> format
they replace); to examine an entry, you must use the <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>
command. Invoke it as follows:
- infocmp <EM>entry</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>name</EM>
+ infocmp <EM>entry</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>name</EM>
where <EM>entry</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>name</EM> is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the
name of its capability file the subdirectory of /usr/share/terminfo
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
- /usr/share/terminfo/?/*
- compiled terminal capability data base
+ <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>
+ compiled terminal description database
/etc/inittab
tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes)
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>.
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
-
<STRONG><A HREF="term.7.html">term(7)</A></STRONG>
+
ncurses 6.4 2023-11-11 <STRONG><A HREF="term.7.html">term(7)</A></STRONG>
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