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+<H2>
<a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>tic</STRONG> - the <EM>terminfo</EM> entry-description compiler
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- <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>
+<H2>
<a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> [<STRONG>-01CDGIKLNTUVacfgqrstx</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>
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-<H2>
DESCRIPTION</H2><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
stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the <STRONG>-K</STRONG>
option.
- <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
+ 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 ter-
+ minfo.
+
+ <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 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, as well
+ 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 doc-
umented limit in terminfo), these entries may cause
core dumps with other implementations.
- <STRONG>-D</STRONG> tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to print the database locations that it
+ <STRONG>tic</STRONG> checks string capabilities to ensure that those
+ with parameters will be valid expressions. It does
+ this check only for the predefined string capabili-
+ ties; 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
+ 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
- summarized above, it will print a diagnostic and
- exit with an error rather than printing a list of
+ writable database location according to the rules
+ summarized 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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-
+ if/then/else/endif expressions indented for read-
ability.
- <STRONG>-G</STRONG> Display constant literals in decimal form rather
+ <STRONG>-G</STRONG> Display constant literals in decimal form rather
than their character equivalents.
- <STRONG>-g</STRONG> Display constant character literals in quoted form
+ <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>-K</STRONG> Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to
+ <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
+ <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
+ 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
+ This option forces a more literal translation that
also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
- <STRONG>-o</STRONG><EM>dir</EM> Write compiled entries to given database location.
+ <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
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.
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-<H2>
COMPATIBILITY</H2><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
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-<H2>
EXTENSIONS</H2><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
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+<H2>
<a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo/?/*</STRONG>
Compiled terminal description database.
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+<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 20131221).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20151024).
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+<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>
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