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<H1 class="no-header">term 5</H1>
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-setupterm">setupterm</a></H3><PRE>
Note that it is possible for <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> to expect a different set of
capabilities than are actually present in the file. Either the
- database may have been updated since <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> has been recompiled
+ database may have been updated since <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> was recompiled
(resulting in extra unrecognized entries in the file) or the program
may have been recompiled more recently than the database was updated
(resulting in missing entries). The routine <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> must be prepared
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Magic-codes">Magic codes</a></H3><PRE>
The magic number in a binary terminfo file is the first 16-bits (two
bytes). Besides making it more reliable for the library to check that
- a file is terminfo, utilities such as <STRONG>file</STRONG> also use that to tell what
- the file-format is. System V defined more than one magic number, with
- 0433, 0435 as screen-dumps (see <STRONG><A HREF="scr_dump.5.html">scr_dump(5)</A></STRONG>). This implementation uses
- 01036 as a continuation of that sequence, but with a different high-
- order byte to avoid confusion.
+ a file is terminfo, utilities such as <STRONG>file(1)</STRONG> also use that to tell
+ what the file-format is. System V defined more than one magic number,
+ with 0433, 0435 as screen-dumps (see <STRONG><A HREF="scr_dump.5.html">scr_dump(5)</A></STRONG>). This implementation
+ uses 01036 as a continuation of that sequence, but with a different
+ high-order byte to avoid confusion.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-The-TERMTYPE-structure">The TERMTYPE structure</a></H3><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
- /usr/share/terminfo/*/* compiled terminal capability data base
+ /usr/share/terminfo/*/* compiled terminal capability database
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
extended number support for ncurses 6.1
Eric S. Raymond
- documented legacy terminfo format, e.g., from pcurses.
+ documented legacy terminfo format, e.g., from <EM>pcurses</EM>.
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