-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<!--
****************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
+ * Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
* *
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
* copy of this software and associated documentation files (the *
* sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written *
* authorization. *
****************************************************************************
- * @Id: tset.1,v 1.13 2003/05/11 00:32:53 tom Exp @
+ * @Id: tset.1,v 1.37 2016/05/21 23:36:51 tom Exp @
-->
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
+<meta name="generator" content="Manpage converted by man2html - see http://invisible-island.net/scripts/readme.html#others_scripts">
<TITLE>tset 1</TITLE>
<link rev=made href="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
-<H1>tset 1</H1>
-<HR>
+<H1 class="no-header">tset 1</H1>
<PRE>
-<!-- Manpage converted by man2html 3.0.1 -->
-<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
-</PRE>
-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>tset</STRONG>, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> - terminal initialization
-</PRE>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
- tset [-IQVqrs] [-] [-e <EM>ch</EM>] [-i <EM>ch</EM>] [-k <EM>ch</EM>] [-m <EM>mapping</EM>]
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>tset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
[<EM>terminal</EM>]
- reset [-IQVqrs] [-] [-e <EM>ch</EM>] [-i <EM>ch</EM>] [-k <EM>ch</EM>] [-m <EM>mapping</EM>]
+ <STRONG>reset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
[<EM>terminal</EM>]
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-tset---initialization">tset - initialization</a></H3><PRE>
<STRONG>Tset</STRONG> initializes terminals. <STRONG>Tset</STRONG> first determines the
type of terminal that you are using. This determination
is done as follows, using the first terminal type found.
3. (BSD systems only.) The terminal type associated with
the standard error output device in the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file.
- (On Linux and System-V-like UNIXes, <EM>getty</EM> does this job by
- setting <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> according to the type passed to it by
- <EM>/etc/inittab</EM>.)
+ (On System-V-like UNIXes and systems using that conven-
+ tion, <EM>getty</EM> does this job by setting <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> according to the
+ type passed to it by <EM>/etc/inittab</EM>.)
- 4. The default terminal type, ``unknown''.
+ 4. The default terminal type, "unknown".
If the terminal type was not specified on the command-
- line, the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option mappings are then applied (see below
- for more information). Then, if the terminal type begins
- with a question mark (``?''), the user is prompted for
- confirmation of the terminal type. An empty response con-
- firms the type, or, another type can be entered to specify
- a new type. Once the terminal type has been determined,
- the terminfo entry for the terminal is retrieved. If no
- terminfo entry is found for the type, the user is prompted
- for another terminal type.
-
- Once the terminfo entry is retrieved, the window size,
- backspace, interrupt and line kill characters (among many
+ line, the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option mappings are then applied (see the
+ section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more information).
+ Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark
+ ("?"), the user is prompted for confirmation of the termi-
+ nal type. An empty response confirms the type, or,
+ another type can be entered to specify a new type. Once
+ the terminal type has been determined, the terminfo entry
+ for the terminal is retrieved. If no terminfo entry is
+ found for the type, the user is prompted for another ter-
+ minal type.
+
+ Once the terminfo entry is retrieved, the window size,
+ backspace, interrupt and line kill characters (among many
other things) are set and the terminal and tab initializa-
- tion strings are sent to the standard error output.
- Finally, if the erase, interrupt and line kill characters
- have changed, or are not set to their default values,
+ tion strings are sent to the standard error output.
+ Finally, if the erase, interrupt and line kill characters
+ have changed, or are not set to their default values,
their values are displayed to the standard error output.
- When invoked as <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> sets cooked and echo modes,
- turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline transla-
- tion and resets any unset special characters to their
- default values before doing the terminal initialization
- described above. This is useful after a program dies
- leaving a terminal in an abnormal state. Note, you may
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-reset---reinitialization">reset - reinitialization</a></H3><PRE>
+ When invoked as <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> sets cooked and echo modes,
+ turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline transla-
+ tion and resets any unset special characters to their
+ default values before doing the terminal initialization
+ described above. This is useful after a program dies
+ leaving a terminal in an abnormal state. Note, you may
have to type
<STRONG><LF>reset<LF></STRONG>
(the line-feed character is normally control-J) to get the
terminal to work, as carriage-return may no longer work in
- the abnormal state. Also, the terminal will often not
+ the abnormal state. Also, the terminal will often not
echo the command.
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></H2><PRE>
The options are as follows:
- <STRONG>-q</STRONG> The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
- put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
- The option `-' by itself is equivalent but archaic.
+ <STRONG>-c</STRONG> Set control characters and modes.
<STRONG>-e</STRONG> Set the erase character to <EM>ch</EM>.
<STRONG>-I</STRONG> Do not send the terminal or tab initialization
strings to the terminal.
- <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> Don't display any values for the erase, interrupt and
- line kill characters.
-
- <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
- program, and exits.
-
<STRONG>-i</STRONG> Set the interrupt character to <EM>ch</EM>.
<STRONG>-k</STRONG> Set the line kill character to <EM>ch</EM>.
- <STRONG>-m</STRONG> Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
- See below for more information.
+ <STRONG>-m</STRONG> Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
+ See the section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more infor-
+ mation.
+
+ <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt
+ and line kill characters. Normally <STRONG>tset</STRONG> displays the
+ values for control characters which differ from the
+ system's default values.
+
+ <STRONG>-q</STRONG> The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
+ put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
+ The option "-" by itself is equivalent but archaic.
<STRONG>-r</STRONG> Print the terminal type to the standard error output.
<STRONG>-s</STRONG> Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize
the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> to the standard output.
- See the section below on setting the environment for
- details.
+ See the section <STRONG>SETTING</STRONG> <STRONG>THE</STRONG> <STRONG>ENVIRONMENT</STRONG> for details.
+
+ <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
+ program, and exits.
+
+ <STRONG>-w</STRONG> Resize the window to match the size deduced via
+ <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>. Normally this has no effect, unless
+ <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> is not able to detect the window size.
The arguments for the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG> options may either be
- entered as actual characters or by using the `hat' nota-
- tion, i.e. control-h may be specified as ``^H'' or ``^h''.
+ entered as actual characters or by using the "hat" nota-
+ tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as "^H" or "^h".
+ If neither <STRONG>-c</STRONG> or <STRONG>-w</STRONG> is given, both options are assumed.
-</PRE>
-<
H2>SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</H2><PRE>
- It is often desirable to enter the terminal type and
- information about the terminal's capabilities into the
+
+<
/PRE><H2><a name="h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
+ It is often desirable to enter the terminal type and
+ information about the terminal's capabilities into the
shell's environment. This is done using the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option.
When the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option is specified, the commands to enter the
- information into the shell's environment are written to
- the standard output. If the <STRONG>SHELL</STRONG> environmental variable
- ends in ``csh'', the commands are for <STRONG>csh</STRONG>, otherwise, they
- are for <STRONG>sh</STRONG>. Note, the <STRONG>csh</STRONG> commands set and unset the
- shell variable <STRONG>noglob</STRONG>, leaving it unset. The following
- line in the <STRONG>.login</STRONG> or <STRONG>.profile</STRONG> files will initialize the
+ information into the shell's environment are written to
+ the standard output. If the <STRONG>SHELL</STRONG> environmental variable
+ ends in "csh", the commands are for <STRONG>csh</STRONG>, otherwise, they
+ are for <STRONG>sh</STRONG>. Note, the <STRONG>csh</STRONG> commands set and unset the
+ shell variable <STRONG>noglob</STRONG>, leaving it unset. The following
+ line in the <STRONG>.login</STRONG> or <STRONG>.profile</STRONG> files will initialize the
environment correctly:
eval `tset -s options ... `
-
-</PRE>
-<H2>TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></H2><PRE>
When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the
current system information is incorrect) the terminal type
- derived from the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file or the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environmental
- variable is often something generic like <STRONG>network</STRONG>, <STRONG>dialup</STRONG>,
- or <STRONG>unknown</STRONG>. When <STRONG>tset</STRONG> is used in a startup script it is
- often desirable to provide information about the type of
+ derived from the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file or the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environmental
+ variable is often something generic like <STRONG>network</STRONG>, <STRONG>dialup</STRONG>,
+ or <STRONG>unknown</STRONG>. When <STRONG>tset</STRONG> is used in a startup script it is
+ often desirable to provide information about the type of
terminal used on such ports.
- The purpose of the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option is to map from some set of
- conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell <STRONG>tset</STRONG> ``If
- I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on
- that kind of terminal''.
+ The purpose of the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option is to map from some set of
+ conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell <STRONG>tset</STRONG> "If
+ I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on
+ that kind of terminal".
The argument to the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option consists of an optional port
- type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate
- specification, an optional colon (``:'') character and a
- terminal type. The port type is a string (delimited by
- either the operator or the colon character). The operator
- may be any combination of ``>'', ``<'', ``@'', and ``!'';
- ``>'' means greater than, ``<'' means less than, ``@''
- means equal to and ``!'' inverts the sense of the test.
- The baud rate is specified as a number and is compared
- with the speed of the standard error output (which should
- be the control terminal). The terminal type is a string.
+ type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specifi-
+ cation, an optional colon (":") character and a terminal
+ type. The port type is a string (delimited by either the
+ operator or the colon character). The operator may be any
+ combination of ">", "<", "@", and "!"; ">" means greater
+ than, "<" means less than, "@" means equal to and "!"
+ inverts the sense of the test. The baud rate is specified
+ as a number and is compared with the speed of the standard
+ error output (which should be the control terminal). The
+ terminal type is a string.
If the terminal type is not specified on the command line,
the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> mappings are applied to the terminal type. If the
argument. Also, to avoid problems with meta-characters,
it is suggested that the entire <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option argument be
placed within single quote characters, and that <STRONG>csh</STRONG> users
- insert a backslash character (``\'') before any exclama-
- tion marks (``!'').
+ insert a backslash character ("\") before any exclamation
+ marks ("!").
-</PRE>
-<H2>HISTORY</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command appeared in BSD 3.0. The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> imple-
mentation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources for
a terminfo environment by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyr-
sus.com>.
-</PRE>
-<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+ Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications
+ Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents
+ <STRONG>tset</STRONG> or <STRONG>reset</STRONG>.
+
The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility has been provided for backward-compati-
bility with BSD environments (under most modern UNIXes,
- <STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> and <STRONG><A HREF="getty.1.html">getty(1)</A></STRONG> can set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> appropriately for
+ <STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> and <STRONG>getty(1)</STRONG> can set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> appropriately for
each dial-up line; this obviates what was <STRONG>tset</STRONG>'s most
important use). This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD
tset, with a few exceptions specified here.
The <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option of BSD tset no longer works; it prints an
error message to stderr and dies. The <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option only sets
- <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, not <STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG>. Both these changes are because the
+ <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, not <STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG>. Both of these changes are because the
<STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG> variable is no longer supported under terminfo-
based <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG>, which makes <STRONG>tset</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> useless (we made it die
noisily rather than silently induce lossage).
There was an undocumented 4.4BSD feature that invoking
- tset via a link named `TSET` (or via any other name begin-
+ <STRONG>tset</STRONG> via a link named "TSET" (or via any other name begin-
ning with an upper-case letter) set the terminal to use
upper-case only. This feature has been omitted.
The <STRONG>-A</STRONG>, <STRONG>-E</STRONG>, <STRONG>-h</STRONG>, <STRONG>-u</STRONG> and <STRONG>-v</STRONG> options were deleted from the
<STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility in 4.4BSD. None of them were documented in
- 4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at best. The <STRONG>-a</STRONG>, -,
- and -
- options are similarly not documented or useful, but were
- retained as they appear to be in widespread use. It is
- strongly recommended that any usage of these three options
- be changed to use the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option instead. The -n option
- remains, but has no effect. The <STRONG>-adnp</STRONG> options are there-
- fore omitted from the usage summary above.
+ 4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at best. The <STRONG>-a</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>-d</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-p</STRONG> options are similarly not documented or useful,
+ but were retained as they appear to be in widespread use.
+ It is strongly recommended that any usage of these three
+ options be changed to use the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option instead. The <STRONG>-a</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>-d</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-p</STRONG> options are therefore omitted from the usage
+ summary above.
+
+ Very old systems, e.g., 3BSD, used a different terminal
+ driver which was replaced in 4BSD in the early 1980s. To
+ accommodate these older systems, the 4BSD <STRONG>tset</STRONG> provided a
+ <STRONG>-n</STRONG> option to specify that the new terminal driver should
+ be used. This implementation does not provide that
+ choice.
It is still permissible to specify the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG>
options without arguments, although it is strongly recom-
and the <EM>terminal</EM> argument in some historic implementations
of <STRONG>tset</STRONG> has been removed.
+ The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> and <STRONG>-w</STRONG> options are not found in earlier implementa-
+ tions. However, a different window size-change feature
+ was provided in 4.4BSD.
-</PRE>
-<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2><PRE>
- The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command uses the <STRONG>SHELL</STRONG> and <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environment vari-
- ables.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> In 4.4BSD, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> uses the window size from the termcap
+ description to set the window size if <STRONG>tset</STRONG> is not able
+ to obtain the window size from the operating system.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> In ncurses, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> obtains the window size using
+ <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>, which may be from the operating system, the
+ <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLUMNS</STRONG> environment variables or the termi-
+ nal description.
-</PRE>
-<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
+ Obtaining the window size from the terminal description is
+ common to both implementations, but considered obsoles-
+ cent. Its only practical use is for hardware terminals.
+ Generally speaking, a window size would be unset only if
+ there were some problem obtaining the value from the oper-
+ ating system (and <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> would still fail). For that
+ reason, the <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLUMNS</STRONG> environment variables may be
+ useful for working around window-size problems. Those
+ have the drawback that if the window is resized, those
+ variables must be recomputed and reassigned. To do this
+ more easily, use the <STRONG><A HREF="resize.1.html">resize(1)</A></STRONG> program.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
+ The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command uses these environment variables:
+
+ SHELL
+ tells <STRONG>tset</STRONG> whether to initialize <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> using <STRONG>sh</STRONG> or <STRONG>csh</STRONG>
+ syntax.
+
+ TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is
+ distinct, though many are similar.
+
+ TERMCAP
+ may denote the location of a termcap database. If it
+ is not an absolute pathname, e.g., begins with a "/",
+ <STRONG>tset</STRONG> removes the variable from the environment before
+ looking for the terminal description.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
/etc/ttys
- system port name to terminal type mapping database
+ system port name to terminal type mapping database
(BSD versions only).
/usr/share/terminfo
terminal capability database
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="csh.1.html">csh(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="sh.1.html">sh(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="stty.1.html">stty(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tty.4.html">tty(4)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="termcap.5.html">termcap(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ttys.5.html">ttys(5)</A></STRONG>, envi-
- <STRONG><A HREF="ron.7.html">ron(7)</A></STRONG>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>csh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>tty(4)</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ttys(5)</STRONG>, <STRONG>environ(7)</STRONG>
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20160521).
- <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
+
<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
</PRE>
-<HR>
-<ADDRESS>
-Man(1) output converted with
-<a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html">man2html</a>
-</ADDRESS>
+<div class="nav">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#h3-tset---initialization">tset - initialization</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-reset---reinitialization">reset - reinitialization</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>
projects / ncurses.git / blobdiff