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-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetflag</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetnum</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG>, <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> - direct
- <STRONG>curses</STRONG> interface to the terminfo capability database
+<H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>PC</STRONG>, <STRONG>UP</STRONG>, <STRONG>BC</STRONG>, <STRONG>ospeed</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetflag</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetnum</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG>, <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> - direct <STRONG>curses</STRONG> interface to the terminfo
+ capability database
</PRE>
+<H2>
<a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><term.h></STRONG>
</PRE>
-<H2>
DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- These routines are included as a conversion aid for pro-
- grams that use the <EM>termcap</EM> library. Their parameters are
- the same and the routines are emulated using the <EM>terminfo</EM>
- database. Thus, they can only be used to query the capa-
- bilities of entries for which a terminfo entry has been
+<H2>
<a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+ These routines are included as a conversion aid for pro-
+ grams that use the <EM>termcap</EM> library. Their parameters are
+ the same and the routines are emulated using the <EM>terminfo</EM>
+ database. Thus, they can only be used to query the capa-
+ bilities of entries for which a terminfo entry has been
compiled.
- The <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> routine loads the entry for <EM>name</EM>. It returns
- 1 on success, 0 if there is no such entry, and -1 if the
- terminfo database could not be found. The emulation
- ignores the buffer pointer <EM>bp</EM>.
- The <STRONG>tgetflag</STRONG> routine gets the boolean entry for <EM>id</EM>, or
- zero if it is not available.
+</PRE>
+<H3><a name="h3-INITIALIZATION">INITIALIZATION</a></H3><PRE>
+ The <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> routine loads the entry for <EM>name</EM>. It returns:
+
+ 1 on success,
+
+ 0 if there is no such entry (or that it is a generic
+ type, having too little information for curses ap-
+ plications to run), and
+
+ -1 if the terminfo database could not be found.
+
+ This differs from the <EM>termcap</EM> library in two ways:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The emulation ignores the buffer pointer <EM>bp</EM>. The
+ <EM>termcap</EM> library would store a copy of the terminal
+ description in the area referenced by this pointer.
+ However, ncurses stores its terminal descriptions
+ in compiled binary form, which is not the same
+ thing.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> There is a difference in return codes. The <EM>termcap</EM>
+ library does not check if the terminal description
+ is marked with the <EM>generic</EM> capability, or if the
+ terminal description has cursor-addressing.
+
+
+</PRE>
+<H3><a name="h3-CAPABILITY-VALUES">CAPABILITY VALUES</a></H3><PRE>
+ The <STRONG>tgetflag</STRONG> routine gets the boolean entry for <EM>id</EM>, or ze-
+ ro if it is not available.
The <STRONG>tgetnum</STRONG> routine gets the numeric entry for <EM>id</EM>, or -1
if it is not available.
The <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG> routine returns the string entry for <EM>id</EM>, or
- zero if it is not available. Use <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> to output the
- returned string. The return value will also be copied to
- the buffer pointed to by <EM>area</EM>, and the <EM>area</EM> value will be
- updated to point past the null ending this value.
+ zero if it is not available. Use <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> to output the re-
+ turned string. The <EM>area</EM> parameter is used as follows:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> It is assumed to be the address of a pointer to a
+ buffer managed by the calling application.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> However, ncurses checks to ensure that <STRONG>area</STRONG> is not
+ NULL, and also that the resulting buffer pointer is
+ not NULL. If either check fails, the <EM>area</EM> parame-
+ ter is ignored.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If the checks succeed, ncurses also copies the re-
+ turn value to the buffer pointed to by <EM>area</EM>, and
+ the <EM>area</EM> value will be updated to point past the
+ null ending this value.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> The return value itself is an address in the termi-
+ nal description which is loaded into memory.
Only the first two characters of the <STRONG>id</STRONG> parameter of <STRONG>tget-</STRONG>
<STRONG>flag</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetnum</STRONG> and <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG> are compared in lookups.
+
+</PRE>
+<H3><a name="h3-FORMATTING-CAPABILITIES">FORMATTING CAPABILITIES</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> routine instantiates the parameters into the
given capability. The output from this routine is to be
passed to <STRONG>tputs</STRONG>.
manual page. It can retrieve capabilities by either term-
cap or terminfo name.
+
+</PRE>
+<H3><a name="h3-GLOBAL-VARIABLES">GLOBAL VARIABLES</a></H3><PRE>
The variables <STRONG>PC</STRONG>, <STRONG>UP</STRONG> and <STRONG>BC</STRONG> are set by <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> to the ter-
minfo entry's data for <STRONG>pad_char</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_up</STRONG> and
<STRONG>backspace_if_not_bs</STRONG>, respectively. <STRONG>UP</STRONG> is not used by
ncurses. <STRONG>PC</STRONG> is used in the <STRONG>tdelay_output</STRONG> function. <STRONG>BC</STRONG> is
used in the <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> emulation. The variable <STRONG>ospeed</STRONG> is set
- by ncurses in a system-specific coding to reflect the
- terminal speed.
+ by ncurses in a system-specific coding to reflect the ter-
+ minal speed.
</PRE>
-<H2>
RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
- Except where explicitly noted, routines that return an
- integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only speci-
- fies "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful
- completion.
+<H2>
<a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
+ Except where explicitly noted, routines that return an in-
+ teger return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 only specifies
+ "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful comple-
+ tion.
Routines that return pointers return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.
</PRE>
+<H2>
<a name="h2-BUGS">BUGS</a></H2><PRE>
If you call <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG> to fetch <STRONG>ca</STRONG> or any other parameterized
- string, be aware that it will be returned in terminfo
- notation, not the older and not-quite-compatible termcap
- notation. This will not cause problems if all you do with
+ string, be aware that it will be returned in terminfo no-
+ tation, not the older and not-quite-compatible termcap no-
+ tation. This will not cause problems if all you do with
it is call <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> or <STRONG>tparm</STRONG>, which both expand terminfo-
style strings as terminfo. (The <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> function, if con-
figured to support termcap, will check if the string is
</PRE>
-<H2>
PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
+<H2>
<a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these func-
tions. However, they are marked TO BE WITHDRAWN and may
be removed in future versions.
guishing between input and output. In particular, some
applications are reported to declare and/or modify <STRONG>ospeed</STRONG>.
+ The comment that only the first two characters of the <STRONG>id</STRONG>
+ parameter are used escapes many application developers.
+ The original BSD 4.2 termcap library (and historical
+ relics thereof) did not require a trailing null NUL on the
+ parameter name passed to <STRONG>tgetstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetnum</STRONG> and <STRONG>tgetflag</STRONG>.
+ Some applications assume that the termcap interface does
+ not require the trailing NUL for the parameter name. Tak-
+ ing into account these issues:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> As a special case, <STRONG>tgetflag</STRONG> matched against a single-
+ character identifier provided that was at the end of
+ the terminal description. You should not rely upon
+ this behavior in portable programs. This implementa-
+ tion disallows matches against single-character capa-
+ bility names.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> This implementation disallows matches by the termcap
+ interface against extended capability names which are
+ longer than two characters.
+
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-<H2>SEE ALSO</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="putc.3.html">putc(3)</A></STRONG>.
+<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_variables.3x.html">term_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>putc(3)</STRONG>.
+
+ http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>
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+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
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+<li><a href="#h3-INITIALIZATION">INITIALIZATION</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-CAPABILITY-VALUES">CAPABILITY VALUES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-FORMATTING-CAPABILITIES">FORMATTING CAPABILITIES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-GLOBAL-VARIABLES">GLOBAL VARIABLES</a></li>
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