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-</PRE>
-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>tic</STRONG> - the <EM>terminfo</EM> entry-description compiler
-</PRE>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>tic</STRONG> [<STRONG>-1CGILNTUVacfgrstx</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>] [<STRONG>-o</STRONG> <EM>dir</EM>] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <EM>subset</EM>]
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> [<STRONG>-01CDGIKLNTUVWacfgqrstx</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>] [<STRONG>-o</STRONG> <EM>dir</EM>] [<STRONG>-Q</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <EM>subset</EM>]
[<STRONG>-v</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-w</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] <EM>file</EM>
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- The command <STRONG>tic</STRONG> translates a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> file from source
- format into compiled format. The compiled format is nec-
- essary for use with the library routines in <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+ The <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command translates a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> file from source format into com-
+ piled format. The compiled format is necessary for use with the
+ library routines in <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+
+ As described in <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>, the database may be either a directory tree
+ (one file per terminal entry) or a hashed database (one record per
+ entry). The <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command writes only one type of entry, depending on
+ how it was built:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> For directory trees, the top-level directory, e.g., /usr/share/ter-
+ minfo, specifies the location of the database.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> For hashed databases, a filename is needed. If the given file is
+ not found by that name, but can be found by adding the suffix
+ ".db", then that is used.
+
+ The default name for the hashed database is the same as the default
+ directory name (only adding a ".db" suffix).
+
+ In either case (directory or hashed database), <STRONG>tic</STRONG> will create the con-
+ tainer if it does not exist. For a directory, this would be the "ter-
+ minfo" leaf, versus a "terminfo.db" file.
- The results are normally placed in the system terminfo
- directory <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>. There are two ways to
- change this behavior.
+ The results are normally placed in the system terminfo database
+ <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>. The compiled terminal description can be placed
+ in a different terminfo database. There are two ways to achieve this:
- First, you may override the system default by setting the
- variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> in your shell environment to a valid
- (existing) directory name.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> First, you may override the system default either by using the <STRONG>-o</STRONG>
+ option, or by setting the variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> in your shell environ-
+ ment to a valid database location.
- Secondly, if <STRONG>tic</STRONG> cannot get access to <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>
- or your TERMINFO directory, it looks for the directory
- <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>; if that directory exists, the entry is
- placed there.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Secondly, if <STRONG>tic</STRONG> cannot write in <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM> or the loca-
+ tion specified using your TERMINFO variable, it looks for the
+ directory <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> (or hashed database <EM>$HOME/.terminfo.db)</EM>;
+ if that location exists, the entry is placed there.
- Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check
- for a TERMINFO directory first, look at <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> if
- TERMINFO is not set, and finally look in <EM>/usr/share/ter-</EM>
- <EM>minfo</EM>.
+ Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check in succes-
+ sion
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> a location specified with the TERMINFO environment variable,
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>,
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS environment variable,
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> a compiled-in list of directories (/usr/local/ncurses/share/ter-
+ minfo:/usr/share/terminfo), and
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the system terminfo database (<EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>).
+
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H3><PRE>
+ <STRONG>-0</STRONG> restricts the output to a single line
<STRONG>-1</STRONG> restricts the output to a single column
- <STRONG>-a</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to retain commented-out capabilities
- rather than discarding them. Capabilities are com-
- mented by prefixing them with a period. This sets
- the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option, because it treats the commented-out
- entries as user-defined names. If the source is
- termcap, accept the 2-character names required by
- version 6. Otherwise these are ignored.
-
- <STRONG>-C</STRONG> Force source translation to termcap format. Note:
- this differs from the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> in
- that it does not merely translate capability names,
- but also translates terminfo strings to termcap
- format. Capabilities that are not translatable are
- left in the entry under their terminfo names but
- commented out with two preceding dots.
-
- <STRONG>-c</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to only check <EM>file</EM> for errors, including
- syntax problems and bad use links. If you specify
- <STRONG>-C</STRONG> (<STRONG>-I</STRONG>) with this option, the code will print warn-
- ings about entries which, after use resolution, are
- more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a fixed
- buffer length in older termcap libraries (and a
- documented limit in terminfo), these entries may
- cause core dumps.
+ <STRONG>-a</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to retain commented-out capabilities rather than dis-
+ carding them. Capabilities are commented by prefixing them with
+ a period. This sets the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option, because it treats the com-
+ mented-out entries as user-defined names. If the source is
+ termcap, accept the 2-character names required by version 6.
+ Otherwise these are ignored.
+
+ <STRONG>-C</STRONG> Force source translation to termcap format. Note: this differs
+ from the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> in that it does not merely
+ translate capability names, but also translates terminfo strings
+ to termcap format. Capabilities that are not translatable are
+ left in the entry under their terminfo names but commented out
+ with two preceding dots. The actual format used incorporates
+ some improvements for escaped characters from terminfo format.
+ For a stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the <STRONG>-K</STRONG> option.
+
+ If this is combined with <STRONG>-c</STRONG>, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> makes additional checks to
+ report cases where the terminfo values do not have an exact
+ equivalent in termcap form. For example:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>sgr</STRONG> usually will not convert, because termcap lacks the
+ ability to work with more than two parameters, and because
+ termcap lacks many of the arithmetic/logical operators used
+ in terminfo.
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> capabilities with more than one delay or with delays before
+ the end of the string will not convert completely.
+
+ <STRONG>-c</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to only check <EM>file</EM> for errors, including syntax prob-
+ lems and bad use links. If you specify <STRONG>-C</STRONG> (<STRONG>-I</STRONG>) with this
+ option, the code will print warnings about entries which, after
+ use resolution, are more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a
+ fixed buffer length in older termcap libraries, as well as buggy
+ checking for the buffer length (and a documented limit in ter-
+ minfo), these entries may cause core dumps with other implemen-
+ tations.
+
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> checks string capabilities to ensure that those with parame-
+ ters will be valid expressions. It does this check only for the
+ predefined string capabilities; those which are defined with the
+ <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option are ignored.
+
+ <STRONG>-D</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to print the database locations that it knows about,
+ and exit. The first location shown is the one to which it would
+ write compiled terminal descriptions. If <STRONG>tic</STRONG> is not able to
+ find a writable database location according to the rules summa-
+ rized above, it will print a diagnostic and exit with an error
+ rather than printing a list of database locations.
<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>
- Limit writes and translations to the following
- comma-separated list of terminals. If any name or
- alias of a terminal matches one of the names in the
- list, the entry will be written or translated as
- normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
- it. The option value is interpreted as a file con-
- taining the list if it contains a '/'. (Note:
- depending on how tic was compiled, this option may
- require <STRONG>-I</STRONG> or <STRONG>-C</STRONG>.)
-
- <STRONG>-f</STRONG> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
- if/then/else/endif expressions indented for read-
- ability.
-
- <STRONG>-G</STRONG> Display constant literals in decimal form rather
- than their character equivalents.
-
- <STRONG>-g</STRONG> Display constant character literals in quoted form
- rather than their decimal equivalents.
+ Limit writes and translations to the following comma-separated
+ list of terminals. If any name or alias of a terminal matches
+ one of the names in the list, the entry will be written or
+ translated as normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
+ it. The option value is interpreted as a file containing the
+ list if it contains a '/'. (Note: depending on how tic was com-
+ piled, this option may require <STRONG>-I</STRONG> or <STRONG>-C</STRONG>.)
+
+ <STRONG>-f</STRONG> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
+ if/then/else/endif expressions indented for readability.
+
+ <STRONG>-G</STRONG> Display constant literals in decimal form rather than their
+ character equivalents.
+
+ <STRONG>-g</STRONG> Display constant character literals in quoted form rather than
+ their decimal equivalents.
<STRONG>-I</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format.
- <STRONG>-L</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format using
- the long C variable names listed in <<STRONG>term.h</STRONG>>
-
- <STRONG>-N</STRONG> Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating
- from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a num-
- ber of assumptions about the defaults of string
- capabilities <STRONG>reset1_string</STRONG>, <STRONG>carriage_return</STRONG>, <STRONG>cur-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>sor_left</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_down</STRONG>, <STRONG>scroll_forward</STRONG>, <STRONG>tab</STRONG>, <STRONG>new-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>line</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_backspace</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_left</STRONG>, and <STRONG>key_down</STRONG>, then
- attempts to use obsolete termcap capabilities to
- deduce correct values. It also normally suppresses
- output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as <STRONG>bs</STRONG>.
- This option forces a more literal translation that
+ <STRONG>-K</STRONG> Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to termcap format,
+ e.g., "\s" for space.
+
+ <STRONG>-L</STRONG> Force source translation to terminfo format using the long C
+ variable names listed in <<STRONG>term.h</STRONG>>
+
+ <STRONG>-N</STRONG> Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating from termcap
+ to terminfo, the compiler makes a number of assumptions about
+ the defaults of string capabilities <STRONG>reset1_string</STRONG>, <STRONG>car-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>riage_return</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_left</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_down</STRONG>, <STRONG>scroll_forward</STRONG>, <STRONG>tab</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>newline</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_backspace</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_left</STRONG>, and <STRONG>key_down</STRONG>, then attempts to
+ use obsolete termcap capabilities to deduce correct values. It
+ also normally suppresses output of obsolete termcap capabilities
+ such as <STRONG>bs</STRONG>. This option forces a more literal translation that
also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
- <STRONG>-o</STRONG><EM>dir</EM> Write compiled entries to given directory. Over-
- rides the TERMINFO environment variable.
+ <STRONG>-o</STRONG><EM>dir</EM> Write compiled entries to given database location. Overrides
+ the TERMINFO environment variable.
+
+ <STRONG>-Q</STRONG><EM>n</EM> Rather than show source in terminfo (text) format, print the
+ compiled (binary) format in hexadecimal or base64 form, depend-
+ ing on the option's value:
+
+ 1 hexadecimal
+
+ 2 base64
+
+ 3 hexadecimal and base64
+
+ <STRONG>-q</STRONG> Suppress comments and blank lines when showing translated
+ source.
<STRONG>-R</STRONG><EM>subset</EM>
- 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 out-
- right broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own
- extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available
- subsets are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and
- "AIX"; see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for details.
-
- <STRONG>-r</STRONG> Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining
- tc capabilities) even when doing translation to
- termcap format. This may be needed if you are
- preparing a termcap file for a termcap library
- (such as GNU termcap through version 1.3 or BSD
- termcap through 4.3BSD) that does not handle multi-
- ple tc capabilities per entry.
-
- <STRONG>-s</STRONG> Summarize the compile by showing the directory into
- which entries are written, and the number of
- entries which are compiled.
-
- <STRONG>-T</STRONG> 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).
-
- <STRONG>-t</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to discard commented-out capabilities.
- Normally when translating from terminfo to termcap,
- untranslatable capabilities are commented-out.
-
- <STRONG>-U</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to not post-process the data after parsing
- the source file. Normally, it infers data which is
- commonly missing in older terminfo data, or in term-
- caps.
-
- <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
- program, and exits.
-
- <STRONG>-v</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies that (verbose) output be written to stan-
- dard error trace information showing <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s progress.
- The optional parameter <EM>n</EM> is a number from 1 to 10,
- inclusive, indicating the desired level of detail of
- information. If <EM>n</EM> is omitted, the default level is
- 1. If <EM>n</EM> is specified and greater than 1, the level
- of detail is increased.
-
- <STRONG>-w</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies the width of the output. The parameter is
- optional. If it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
-
- <STRONG>-x</STRONG> Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That is,
- if you supply a capability name which <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not
- recognize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or
- string) from the syntax and make an extended table
- entry for that. User-defined capability strings
- whose name begins with ``k'' are treated as function
- keys.
-
- <EM>file</EM> contains one or more <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> terminal descriptions
- in source format [see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>]. Each description
- in the file describes the capabilities of a particu-
- lar terminal.
-
- The debug flag levels are as follows:
-
- 1 Names of files created and linked
-
- 2 Information related to the ``use'' facility
-
- 3 Statistics from the hashing algorithm
-
- 5 String-table memory allocations
-
- 7 Entries into the string-table
-
- 8 List of tokens encountered by scanner
-
- 9 All values computed in construction of the hash ta-
- ble
-
- If the debug level <EM>n</EM> is not given, it is taken to be one.
-
- All but one of the capabilities recognized by <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are doc-
- umented in <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. The exception is the <STRONG>use</STRONG> capabil-
- ity.
-
- When a <STRONG>use</STRONG>=<EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> field is discovered in a terminal
- entry currently being compiled, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> reads in the binary
- from <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG> to complete the entry. (Entries
- created from <EM>file</EM> will be used first. If the environment
- variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is set, that directory is searched
- instead of <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>.) <STRONG>tic</STRONG> duplicates the capa-
- bilities in <EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> for the current entry, with the
- exception of those capabilities that explicitly are
- defined in the current entry.
-
- When an entry, e.g., <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>, contains a
- <STRONG>use=</STRONG><EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> field, any canceled capabilities in
- <EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> must also appear in <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG> before <STRONG>use=</STRONG>
- for these capabilities to be canceled in <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>.
-
- If the environment variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is set, the compiled
- results are placed there instead of <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>.
-
- Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name
- field cannot exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding
- the maximum alias length (32 characters on systems with
- long filenames, 14 characters otherwise) will be truncated
- to the maximum alias length and a warning message will be
- printed.
+ 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 ter-
+ minfo; and outright broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their
+ own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available subsets
+ are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX"; see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for
+ details.
+ <STRONG>-r</STRONG> Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining tc capabili-
+ ties) even when doing translation to termcap format. This may
+ be needed if you are preparing a termcap file for a termcap
+ library (such as GNU termcap through version 1.3 or BSD termcap
+ through 4.3BSD) that does not handle multiple tc capabilities
+ per entry.
-</PRE>
-<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
- There is some evidence that historic <STRONG>tic</STRONG> implementations
- treated description fields with no whitespace in them as
- additional aliases or short names. This <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not do
- that, but it does warn when description fields may be
- treated that way and check them for dangerous characters.
+ <STRONG>-s</STRONG> Summarize the compile by showing the database location into
+ which entries are written, and the number of entries which are
+ compiled.
+ <STRONG>-T</STRONG> 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 ter-
+ minfo).
-</PRE>
-<H2>EXTENSIONS</H2><PRE>
- Unlike the stock SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command, this implementation can
- actually compile termcap sources. In fact, entries in
- terminfo and termcap syntax can be mixed in a single
- source file. See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for the list of termcap
- names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.
-
- The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution
- rules for <STRONG>use</STRONG> capabilities. This implementation of <STRONG>tic</STRONG>
- will find <STRONG>use</STRONG> targets anywhere in the source file, or any-
- where in the file tree rooted at <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> (if <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is
- defined), or in the user's <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> directory (if
- it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file
- tree of compiled entries.
-
- The error messages from this <STRONG>tic</STRONG> have the same format as
- GNU C error messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's
- compile facility.
-
- The <STRONG>-C</STRONG>, <STRONG>-G</STRONG>, <STRONG>-I</STRONG>, <STRONG>-N</STRONG>, <STRONG>-R</STRONG>, <STRONG>-T</STRONG>, <STRONG>-V</STRONG>, <STRONG>-a</STRONG>, <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-f</STRONG>, <STRONG>-g</STRONG>, <STRONG>-o</STRONG>, <STRONG>-r</STRONG>,
- <STRONG>-s</STRONG>, <STRONG>-t</STRONG> and <STRONG>-x</STRONG> options are not supported under SVr4. The
- SVr4 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> mode does not report bad use links.
-
- System V does not compile entries to or read entries from
- your <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> directory unless TERMINFO is explic-
- itly set to it.
+ <STRONG>-t</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to discard commented-out capabilities. Normally when
+ translating from terminfo to termcap, untranslatable capabili-
+ ties are commented-out.
+ <STRONG>-U</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to not post-process the data after parsing the source
+ file. Normally, it infers data which is commonly missing in older
+ terminfo data, or in termcaps.
-</PRE>
-<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and
+ exits.
+
+ <STRONG>-v</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error trace
+ information showing <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s progress.
+
+ The optional parameter <EM>n</EM> is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive,
+ indicating the desired level of detail of information. If ncurses
+ is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is
+ ignored. If <EM>n</EM> is omitted, the default level is 1. If <EM>n</EM> is speci-
+ fied and greater than 1, the level of detail is increased.
+
+ The debug flag levels are as follows:
+
+ 1 Names of files created and linked
+
+ 2 Information related to the "use" facility
+
+ 3 Statistics from the hashing algorithm
+
+ 5 String-table memory allocations
+
+ 7 Entries into the string-table
+
+ 8 List of tokens encountered by scanner
+
+ 9 All values computed in construction of the hash table
+
+ If the debug level <EM>n</EM> is not given, it is taken to be one.
+
+ <STRONG>-W</STRONG> By itself, the <STRONG>-w</STRONG> option will not force long strings to be
+ wrapped. Use the <STRONG>-W</STRONG> option to do this.
+
+ If you specify both <STRONG>-f</STRONG> and <STRONG>-W</STRONG> options, the latter is ignored when
+ <STRONG>-f</STRONG> has already split the line.
+
+ <STRONG>-w</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies the width of the output. The parameter is optional. If
+ it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
+
+ <STRONG>-x</STRONG> Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That is, if you sup-
+ ply a capability name which <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not recognize, it will infer
+ its type (boolean, number or string) from the syntax and make an
+ extended table entry for that. User-defined capability strings
+ whose name begins with "k" are treated as function keys.
+
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a></H3><PRE>
+ <EM>file</EM> contains one or more <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> terminal descriptions in source
+ format [see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>]. Each description in the file
+ describes the capabilities of a particular terminal.
+
+ If <EM>file</EM> is "-", then the data is read from the standard input.
+ The <EM>file</EM> parameter may also be the path of a character-device.
+
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-PROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></H3><PRE>
+ All but one of the capabilities recognized by <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are documented in
+ <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. The exception is the <STRONG>use</STRONG> capability.
+
+ When a <STRONG>use</STRONG>=<EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> field is discovered in a terminal entry currently
+ being compiled, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> reads in the binary from <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG> to
+ complete the entry. (Entries created from <EM>file</EM> will be used first.
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> duplicates the capabilities in <EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM> for the current entry,
+ with the exception of those capabilities that explicitly are defined in
+ the current entry.
+
+ When an entry, e.g., <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>, contains a <STRONG>use=</STRONG><EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> field,
+ any canceled capabilities in <EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM> must also appear in
+ <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG> before <STRONG>use=</STRONG> for these capabilities to be canceled in
+ <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>.
+
+ Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name field cannot
+ exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding the maximum alias length
+ (32 characters on systems with long filenames, 14 characters otherwise)
+ will be truncated to the maximum alias length and a warning message
+ will be printed.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+ There is some evidence that historic <STRONG>tic</STRONG> implementations treated
+ description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or
+ short names. This <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not do that, but it does warn when descrip-
+ tion fields may be treated that way and check them for dangerous char-
+ acters.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
+ Unlike the SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command, this implementation can actually compile
+ termcap sources. In fact, entries in terminfo and termcap syntax can
+ be mixed in a single source file. See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for the list of
+ termcap names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.
+
+ The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution rules for <STRONG>use</STRONG>
+ capabilities. This implementation of <STRONG>tic</STRONG> will find <STRONG>use</STRONG> targets any-
+ where in the source file, or anywhere in the file tree rooted at <STRONG>TER-</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>MINFO</STRONG> (if <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is defined), or in the user's <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> data-
+ base (if it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file tree of
+ compiled entries.
+
+ The error messages from this <STRONG>tic</STRONG> have the same format as GNU C error
+ messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's compile facility.
+
+ The <STRONG>-0</STRONG>, <STRONG>-1</STRONG>, <STRONG>-C</STRONG>, <STRONG>-G</STRONG>, <STRONG>-I</STRONG>, <STRONG>-N</STRONG>, <STRONG>-R</STRONG>, <STRONG>-T</STRONG>, <STRONG>-V</STRONG>, <STRONG>-a</STRONG>, <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-f</STRONG>, <STRONG>-g</STRONG>, <STRONG>-o</STRONG>, <STRONG>-r</STRONG>, <STRONG>-s</STRONG>, <STRONG>-t</STRONG>
+ and <STRONG>-x</STRONG> options are not supported under SVr4. The SVr4 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> mode does not
+ report bad use links.
+
+ System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your
+ <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> database unless TERMINFO is explicitly set to it.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo/?/*</STRONG>
Compiled terminal description database.
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>,
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="term.5.html">term(5)</A></STRONG>. <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.1 (patch 20180203).
+
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.6 (patch 20061224).
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></H2><PRE>
+ Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
+ Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
- <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
+
<STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
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