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-<H1>tic 1m</H1>
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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>-01CDGIKLNTUVacfgrstx</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>] [<STRONG>-o</STRONG> <EM>dir</EM>] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <EM>sub-</EM>
- <EM>set</EM>] [<STRONG>-v</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-w</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] <EM>file</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>
+</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 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>.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> the system terminfo database (<EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>).
- <STRONG>OPTIONS</STRONG>
+
+</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>-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, depending 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
+ 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-
+ 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
+ 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
+ <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 pre-
- paring 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
+ paring 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.
<STRONG>-s</STRONG> Summarize the compile by showing the database loca-
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.,
+ 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.
+ <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-
+ <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
+ <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.
The debug flag levels are as follows:
8 List of tokens encountered by scanner
- 9 All values computed in construction of the
+ 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
+ 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.
+
<STRONG>-w</STRONG><EM>n</EM> specifies the width of the output. The parameter is
optional. If it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
whose name begins with "k" are treated as function
keys.
- <STRONG>PARAMETERS</STRONG>
+
+</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 descrip-
tion in the file describes the capabilities of a
standard input. The <EM>file</EM> parameter may also be the
path of a character-device.
- <STRONG>PROCESSING</STRONG>
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-PROCESSING">PROCESSING</a></H3><PRE>
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.
printed.
-</PRE>
-<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
+</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
treated that way and check them for dangerous characters.
-</PRE>
-<H2>EXTENSIONS</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
Unlike the SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command, this implementation can actu-
ally compile termcap sources. In fact, entries in ter-
minfo and termcap syntax can be mixed in a single source
itly set to it.
-</PRE>
-<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
+</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>
+</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 5.9 (patch 20140524).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20161015).
-</PRE>
-<H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
+</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>
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