infocmp(1m) User commands infocmp(1m)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
infocmp can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with other
terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of
the use= terminfo field, or print out a terminfo description from the
- binary file (term) in a variety of formats. In all cases, the boolean
+ binary file (term) in a variety of formats. In all cases, the Boolean
fields will be printed first, followed by the numeric fields, followed
by the string fields.
@@ -73,14 +73,14 @@
type is specified, the -d option will be assumed.
-
infocmp compares the terminfo description of the first terminal
terminal-type with each of the descriptions given by the entries for
the other terminal's terminal-types. If a capability is defined for
only one of the terminals, the value returned depends on the type of
the capability:
- oF for missing boolean variables
+ oF for missing Boolean variables
oNULL for missing integer or string variables
@@ -115,15 +115,15 @@
variable TERM for each of the terminal-types.
-
The -I, -L, and -C options will produce a source listing for each
terminal named.
- -I use the terminfo names
- -L use the long C variable name listed in <term.h>
- -C use the termcap names
- -r when using -C, put out all capabilities in termcap form
- -K modifies the -C option, improving BSD-compatibility.
+ -I use terminfo capability codes
+ -L use "long" capability names
+ -C use termcap capability codes
+ -r with -C, include nonstandard capabilities
+ -K with -C, improve BSD compatibility
If no terminal-types are given, the environment variable TERM will be
used for the terminal name.
@@ -168,17 +168,17 @@
Some common terminfo parameter sequences, their termcap equivalents,
and some terminal types which commonly have such sequences, are:
- terminfotermcap Representative Terminals
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- %p1%c%. adm
- %p1%d%d hp, ANSI standard, vt100
- %p1%'x'%+%c%+x concept
- %i%iq ANSI standard, vt100
- %p1%?%'x'%>%t%p1%'y'%+%;%>xy concept
- %p2 is printed before %p1%r hp
+ terminfotermcap Terminal Types
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ %p1%c%. ansi-m
+ %p1%d%d ansi, vt100
+ %p1%''%+%c%+x vt52
+ %i%iq ansi, vt100
+ %p1%?%'x'%>%t%p1%'y'%+%;%>xy annarbor4080
+ %p2...%p1%r hpgeneric
-
The -u option produces a terminfo source description of the first
terminal terminal-type which is relative to the sum of the descriptions
given by the entries for the other terminal-types. It does this by
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
that were not needed.
ChangingDatabases[-Adirectory] [-B directory]
- Like other ncurses utilities, infocmp looks for the terminal
+ Like other ncurses utilities, infocmp looks for the terminal
descriptions in several places. You can use the TERMINFO and
TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables to override the compiled-in default
list of places to search. See curses(3x), as well as the Fetching
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
according to the type and the name of the corresponding terminal
entry.
- Before ncurses 5.0, the split between the -e and -E options was
+ Before ncurses 5.0, the split between the -e and -E options was
not needed; but support for extended names required making the
arrays of terminal capabilities separate from the TERMTYPE
structure.
@@ -441,14 +441,14 @@
contents of two source files, since it excludes the inferences
that infocmp makes to fill in missing data.
- -V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and
+ -V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and
exits.
-vn prints out tracing information on standard error as the program
runs.
The optional parameter n is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive,
- indicating the desired level of detail of information. If ncurses
+ indicating the desired level of detail of information. If ncurses
is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is
ignored.
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@
(AT&T) wrote the first infocmp in early 1984, for System V Release 3.
Eric Raymond used the AT&T documentation in 1995 to provide an
- equivalent infocmp for ncurses. In addition, he added a few new
+ equivalent infocmp for ncurses. In addition, he added a few new
features such as:
o the -e option, to support fallback (compiled-in) terminal
@@ -509,9 +509,9 @@
For a complete list, see the EXTENSIONS section.
In 2010, Roy Marples provided an infocmp program for NetBSD. It is
- less capable than the SVr4 or ncurses versions (e.g., it lacks the
+ less capable than the SVr4 or ncurses versions (e.g., it lacks the
sorting options documented in X/Open), but does include the -x option
- adapted from ncurses.
+ adapted from ncurses.