- Another error that does not cause incorrect compiled
- files, but will slow down the compilation time, is speci-
- fying extra <B>use=</B> fields that are superfluous. <B>infocmp</B>
- will flag any other <I>termname</I> <I>use=</I> fields that were not
- needed.
-
- <B>Changing</B> <B>Databases</B> <B>[-A</B> <I>directory</I>] [-B <I>directory</I>]
- The location of the compiled <B>terminfo</B> database is taken
- from the environment variable <B>TERMINFO</B> . If the variable
- is not defined, or the terminal is not found in that loca-
- tion, the system <B>terminfo</B> database, in <B>@DATADIR@/terminfo</B>,
- will be used. The options <B>-A</B> and <B>-B</B> may be used to over-
- ride this location. The <B>-A</B> option will set <B>TERMINFO</B> for
- the first <I>termname</I> and the <B>-B</B> option will set <B>TERMINFO</B> for
- the other <I>termnames</I>. With this, it is possible to compare
- descriptions for a terminal with the same name located in
- two different databases. This is useful for comparing
- descriptions for the same terminal created by different
- people.
-
- <B>Other</B> <B>Options</B> <B>[-s</B> <B>d|i|l|c]</B> <B>[-1FTVefip]</B> <B>[-Rsubset]</B> <B>[-v</B> <I>n</I>] [-w
- <I>width</I>]
- The <B>-s</B> option sorts the fields within each type according
- to the argument below:
-
- <B>d</B> leave fields in the order that they are stored in the
- <I>terminfo</I> database.
-
- <B>i</B> sort by <I>terminfo</I> name.
-
- <B>l</B> sort by the long C variable name.
-
- <B>c</B> sort by the <I>termcap</I> name.
-
- If the <B>-s</B> option is not given, the fields printed out
- will be sorted alphabetically by the <B>terminfo</B> name
- within each type, except in the case of the <B>-C</B> or the
- <B>-L</B> options, which cause the sorting to be done by the
- <B>termcap</B> name or the long C variable name, respec-
- tively.
-
- <B>-1</B> causes the fields to be printed out one to a line.
- Otherwise, the fields will be printed several to a
- line to a maximum width of 60 characters.
-
- <B>-F</B> compare terminfo files. This assumes that two fol-
- lowing arguments are filenames. The files are
- searched for pairwise matches between entries, with
- two entries considered to match if any of their names
- do. The report printed to standard output lists
- entries with no matches in the other file, and
- entries with more than one match. For entries with
- exactly one match it includes a difference report.
- Normally, to reduce the volume of the report, use
- references are not resolved before looking for dif-
- ferences, but resolution can be forced by also speci-
- fying <B>-r</B>.
-
- <B>-G</B> Display constant literals in decimal form rather than
- their character equivalents.
-
- <B>-a</B> tells <B>infocmp</B> to retain commented-out capabilities
- rather than discarding them. Capabilities are com-
- mented by prefixing them with a period.
-
- <B>-q</B> Make the comparison listing shorter by omitting sub-
- headings, and using "-" for absent capabilities, "@"
- for canceled rather than "NULL".
-
- <B>-R</B><I>subset</I>
- Restrict output to a given subset. This option is
- for use with archaic versions of terminfo like those
- on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that do not support the
- full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and variants
- such as AIX that have their own extensions incompati-
- ble with SVr4/XSI. Available terminfo subsets are
- "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", and "AIX"; see <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B>
- for details. You can also choose the subset "BSD"
- which selects only capabilities with termcap equiva-
- lents recognized by 4.4BSD.
-
- <B>-T</B> eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text.
- This is mainly useful for testing and analysis, since
- the compiled descriptions are limited (e.g., 1023 for
- termcap, 4096 for terminfo).
-
- <B>-V</B> prints out the version of the program in use on stan-
- dard error and exits.
-
- <B>-e</B> Dump the capabilities of the given terminal as a C
- initializer for a TERMTYPE structure (the terminal
- capability structure in the <B><term.h></B>). This option
- is useful for preparing versions of the curses
- library hardwired for a given terminal type.
-
- <B>-E</B> Dump the capabilities of the given terminal as
- tables, needed in the C initializer for a TERMTYPE
- structure (the terminal capability structure in the
- <B><term.h></B>). This option is useful for preparing ver-
- sions of the curses library hardwired for a given
- terminal type. The tables are all declared static,
- and are named according to the type and the name of
- the corresponding terminal entry.
-
- Before ncurses 5.0, the split between the <B>-e</B> and <B>-E</B>
- options was not needed; but support for extended
- names required making the arrays of terminal capabil-
- ities separate from the TERMTYPE structure.
-
- <B>-f</B> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
- if/then/else/endif expressions indented for readabil-
- ity.
-
- <B>-g</B> Display constant character literals in quoted form
- rather than their decimal equivalents.
-
- <B>-i</B> Analyze the initialization (<B>is1</B>, <B>is2</B>, <B>is3</B>), and reset
- (<B>rs1</B>, <B>rs2</B>, <B>rs3</B>), strings in the entry. For each
- string, the code tries to analyze it into actions in
- terms of the other capabilities in the entry, certain
- X3.64/ISO 6429/ECMA-48 capabilities, and certain DEC
- VT-series private modes (the set of recognized spe-
- cial sequences has been selected for completeness
- over the existing terminfo database). Each report
- line consists of the capability name, followed by a
- colon and space, followed by a printable expansion of
- the capability string with sections matching recog-
- nized actions translated into {}-bracketed
- descriptions. Here is a list of the DEC/ANSI special
- sequences recognized:
-
- Action Meaning
- -----------------------------------------
- RIS full reset
- SC save cursor
- RC restore cursor
- LL home-down
- RSR reset scroll region
-
- ISO DEC G0 enable DEC graphics for G0
- ISO UK G0 enable UK chars for G0
- ISO US G0 enable US chars for G0
- ISO DEC G1 enable DEC graphics for G1
- ISO UK G1 enable UK chars for G1
- ISO US G1 enable US chars for G1
-
- DECPAM application keypad mode
- DECPNM normal keypad mode
- DECANSI enter ANSI mode
-
- DEC[+-]CKM application cursor keys
- DEC[+-]ANM set VT52 mode
- DEC[+-]COLM 132-column mode
- DEC[+-]SCLM smooth scroll
- DEC[+-]SCNM reverse video mode
- DEC[+-]OM origin mode
- DEC[+-]AWM wraparound mode
- DEC[+-]ARM auto-repeat mode
-
- It also recognizes a SGR action corresponding to
- ANSI/ISO 6429/ECMA Set Graphics Rendition, with the
- values NORMAL, BOLD, UNDERLINE, BLINK, and REVERSE.
- All but NORMAL may be prefixed with `+' (turn on) or
- `-' (turn off).
-
- An SGR0 designates an empty highlight sequence
- (equivalent to {SGR:NORMAL}).
-
- <B>-p</B> Ignore padding specifications when comparing strings.
-
- <B>-v</B> <I>n</I> prints out tracing information on standard error as
- the program runs. Higher values of n induce greater
- verbosity.
-
- <B>-w</B> <I>width</I>
- changes the output to <I>width</I> characters.
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