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diff --git a/man/term.7 b/man/term.7
index 909bbd8cb64601b426e9640108d92883c362bf48..110bc6f363e2b461d15f610fa57d6ad7061026da 100644 (file)
--- a/man/term.7
+++ b/man/term.7
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2021,2023 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
 .\" Copyright 1998-2011,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
@@ -27,18 +27,26 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.32 2021/12/25 17:39:16 tom Exp $
-.TH term 7 2021-12-25 "ncurses 6.4" Miscellaneous
-.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
-.el       .ds `` ``
-.ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
-.el       .ds '' ''
+.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.42 2023/11/11 11:48:16 tom Exp $
+.TH term 7 2023-11-11 "ncurses 6.4" Miscellaneous
+.ie \n(.g \{\
+.ds `` \(lq
+.ds '' \(rq
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.ie t .ds `` ``
+.el   .ds `` ""
+.ie t .ds '' ''
+.el   .ds '' ""
+.\}
+.
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .SH NAME
-term \- conventions for naming terminal types
+term \-
+conventions for naming terminal types
+.\"SH SYNOPSIS
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
 The environment variable \fBTERM\fP should normally contain the type name of
 the terminal, console or display-device type you are using.
 This information
@@ -77,7 +85,7 @@ Terminal type descriptions are stored as files of capability data underneath
 \*d.
 To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do
 .sp
-       @TOE@ | more
+        @TOE@ | more
 .sp
 from your shell.
 These capability files are in a binary format optimized for
@@ -85,7 +93,7 @@ retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based \fBtermcap\fP format they replace);
 to examine an entry, you must use the \fB@INFOCMP@\fP(1M) command.
 Invoke it as follows:
 .sp
-       @INFOCMP@ \fIentry_name\fP
+        @INFOCMP@ \fIentry_name\fP
 .sp
 where \fIentry_name\fP is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the
 name of its capability file the subdirectory of \*d named for its first
@@ -212,8 +220,8 @@ For maximum compatibility with older System V UNIXes, names and aliases
 should be unique within the first 14 characters.
 .SH FILES
 .TP 5
-\*d/?/*
-compiled terminal capability database
+.I \*d
+compiled terminal description database
 .TP 5
 /etc/inittab
 tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes)
@@ -221,4 +229,6 @@ tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes)
 /etc/ttys
 tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes)
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBcurses\fP(3X), \fBterminfo\fP(\*n), \fBterm\fP(\*n).
+\fB\%curses\fP(3X),
+\fB\%term\fP(\*n),
+\fB\%terminfo\fP(\*n)