+ With no options, toe lists all available terminal types by primary name
+ with descriptions. File arguments specify the directories to be
+ scanned; if no such arguments are given, your default terminfo
+ directory is scanned. If you also specify the -h option, a directory
+ header will be issued as each directory is entered.
+
+ There are other options intended for use by terminfo file maintainers:
+
+ -a report on all of the terminal databases which ncurses would
+ search, rather than only the first one that it finds.
+
+ If the -s is also given, toe adds a column to the report,
+ showing (like conflict(1)) which entries which belong to a given
+ terminal database. An "*" marks entries which differ, and "+"
+ marks equivalent entries.
+
+ Without the -s option, toe does not attempt to merge duplicates
+ in its report
+
+ -s sort the output by the entry names.
+
+ -ufile
+ says to write a report to the standard output, listing
+ dependencies in the given terminfo/termcap source file. The
+ report condenses the "use" relation: each line consists of the
+ primary name of a terminal that has use capabilities, followed
+ by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names
+ of all terminals which occur in those use capabilities, followed
+ by a newline
+
+ -Ufile
+ says to write a report to the standard output, listing reverse
+ dependencies in the given terminfo/termcap source file. The
+ report reverses the "use" relation: each line consists of the
+ primary name of a terminal that occurs in use capabilities,
+ followed by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated
+ primary names of all terminals which depend on it, followed by a
+ newline.
+
+ -vn specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error,
+ showing toe's progress.
+
+ The optional parameter n is a number from 1 to 10, interpreted
+ as for tic(1m). If ncurses is built without tracing support,
+ the optional parameter is ignored.
+
+ -V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program,
+ and exits.
+
+
+
+ Without sorting, the -a option reports all of the names found in all of
+ the terminal databases found by the TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS
+ environment variables:
+
+ MtxOrb162 16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ MtxOrb204 20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ MtxOrb Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ qvt101+ qume qvt 101 PLUS product
+ qvt119+-25 QVT 119 PLUS with 25 data lines
+ qansi-g QNX ANSI
+ qvt103 qume qvt 103
+ qnxw QNX4 windows
+ qansi-w QNX ansi for windows
+ qnxm QNX4 with mouse events
+ qvt203-25-w QVT 203 PLUS with 25 by 132 columns
+ qansi-t QNX ansi without console writes
+ . . .
+
+ Use the -a and -s options together to show where each terminal
+ description was found:
+
+ --> /usr/local/ncurses/share/terminfo
+ ----> /usr/share/terminfo
+ *-+-: 9term Plan9 terminal emulator for X
+ *---: Eterm Eterm with xterm-style color support (X Window System)
+ *-*-: Eterm-256color Eterm with xterm 256-colors
+ *-*-: Eterm-88color Eterm with 88 colors
+ *-+-: MtxOrb Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ *-+-: MtxOrb162 16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ *-+-: MtxOrb204 20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
+ *-*-: NCR260VT300WPP NCR 2900_260 vt300 wide mode pc+ kybd
+ *-+-: aaa ann arbor ambassador/30 lines
+ *-+-: aaa+dec ann arbor ambassador in dec vt100 mode
+ *-+-: aaa+rv ann arbor ambassador in reverse video
+ . . .
+
+
+
- With no options, toe lists all available terminal types by
- primary name with descriptions. File arguments specify
- the directories to be scanned; if no such arguments are
- given, your default terminfo directory is scanned. If you
- also specify the -h option, a directory header will be
- issued as each directory is entered.
-
- There are other options intended for use by terminfo file
- maintainers:
-
- -ufile
- says to issue a report on dependencies in the given
- file. This report condenses the `use' relation:
- each line consists of the primary name of a termi-
- nal that has use capabilities, followed by a colon,
- followed by the whitespace-separated primary names
- of all terminals which occur in those use capabili-
- ties, followed by a newline
-
- -Ufile
- says to issue a report on reverse dependencies in
- the given file. This report reverses the `use'
- relation: each line consists of the primary name of
- a terminal that occurs in use capabilities, fol-
- lowed by a colon, followed by the whitespace-sepa-
- rated primary names of all terminals which depend
- on it, followed by a newline.
-
- -vn specifies that (verbose) output be written to stan-
- dard error trace information showing toe's
- progress. The optional integer n is a number from
- 1 to 10, interpreted as for tic(1).
-
- -V prints out the version of the program in use on stan-
- dard error and exits.
+
+ This utility is not provided by other implementations. There is no
+ relevant X/Open or POSIX standard for toe.
+ The program name refers to a developer's pun:
-
- tic(1m), infocmp(1m), captoinfo(1m), infotocap(1m),
- curses(3x), terminfo(5).
+ otoe.
+
+ It replaced a -T option which was briefly supported by the ncurses
+ infocmp utility in 1995.
+
+ The -a and -s options were added to toe several years later (2006 and
+ 2011, respectively).
+
+
+