X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Ftic.1m;h=b73b3c618d67f25c5977ed21974c931c143709a3;hb=fc11bff62abb32a3e7724180a94c1068c148ea6c;hp=9c3181ed5c7dffa037d654b672168b663783222a;hpb=e607aef87171fae9359b0c43a04d8d932719bc71;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/man/tic.1m b/man/tic.1m index 9c3181ed..b73b3c61 100644 --- a/man/tic.1m +++ b/man/tic.1m @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.110 2024/04/27 17:57:06 tom Exp $ -.TH @TIC@ 1M 2024-04-27 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "User commands" +.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.111 2024/05/11 20:39:53 tom Exp $ +.TH @TIC@ 1M 2024-05-11 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "User commands" .ie \n(.g \{\ .ds `` \(lq .ds '' \(rq @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ .el .IP \(bu 2 .. . -.ds d @TERMINFO@ .SH NAME \fB\%@TIC@\fP \- compile terminal descriptions for \fIterminfo\fR or \fItermcap\fR @@ -109,7 +108,8 @@ In either case (directory or hashed database), For a directory, this would be the \*(``terminfo\*('' leaf, versus a "terminfo.db" file. .PP -The results are normally placed in the system terminfo database \fB\*d\fP. +The results are normally placed +in the system terminfo database \fB@TERMINFO@\fP. The compiled terminal description can be placed in a different terminfo database. There are two ways to achieve this: @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ using the \fB\-o\fP option, or by setting the variable \fI\%TERMINFO\fP in your shell environment to a valid database location. .bP -Secondly, if \fB@TIC@\fP cannot write in \fI\*d\fP +Secondly, if \fB@TIC@\fP cannot write in \fI@TERMINFO@\fP or the location specified using your \fI\%TERMINFO\fP variable, it looks for the directory \fI$HOME/.terminfo\fP (or hashed database \fI$HOME/.terminfo.db)\fP; @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ directories listed in the \fI\%TERMINFO_DIRS\fP environment variable, .bP a compiled-in list of directories (@TERMINFO_DIRS@), and .bP -the system terminfo database (\fI\*d\fP). +the system terminfo database (\fI@TERMINFO@\fP). .PP The \fIFetching Compiled Descriptions\fP section in the \fBterminfo\fR(5) manual goes into further detail. @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ The exception is the \fBuse\fP capability. .PP When a \fBuse\fP=\fIentry\fP\-\fIname\fP field is discovered in a terminal entry currently being compiled, \fB@TIC@\fP reads in the binary -from \fB\*d\fP to complete the entry. +from \fB@TERMINFO@\fP to complete the entry. (Entries created from \fIfile\fP will be used first. \fB@TIC@\fP duplicates the capabilities in @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning message will be printed. .SH FILES .TP -.I \*d +.I @TERMINFO@ compiled terminal description database .SH NOTES There is some evidence that historic \fB@TIC@\fP implementations treated