ncurses 5.6

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_termcap.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_termcap.3x b/man/curs_termcap.3x
index c5c5517e61004ce404d7dedaee9f1a5502299162..e8072dc95bcf09325e3fb95d908c8e041fdd2cef 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_termcap.3x
+++ b/man/curs_termcap.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 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            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.18 2003/02/08 22:25:47 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_termcap.3x,v 1.20 2006/02/25 21:50:01 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_termcap 3X ""
 .ds n 5
 .SH NAME
@@ -40,12 +40,15 @@
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
 .br
 \fB#include <term.h>\fR
-.br
+.sp
 \fBextern char PC;\fR
+.br
 \fBextern char * UP;\fR
+.br
 \fBextern char * BC;\fR
-\fBextern @NCURSES_OSPEED@ ospeed;\fR
 .br
+\fBextern @NCURSES_OSPEED@ ospeed;\fR
+.sp
 \fBint tgetent(char *bp, const char *name);\fR
 .br
 \fBint tgetflag(char *id);\fR
@@ -64,36 +67,36 @@ the \fItermcap\fR library.  Their parameters are the same and the
 routines are emulated using the \fIterminfo\fR database.  Thus, they
 can only be used to query the capabilities of entries for which a
 terminfo entry has been compiled.
-
+.PP
 The \fBtgetent\fR routine loads the entry for \fIname\fR.
 It returns 1 on success, 0 if there is no such entry, and -1 if the
 terminfo database could not be found.
 The emulation ignores the buffer pointer \fIbp\fR.
-
+.PP
 The \fBtgetflag\fR routine gets the boolean entry for \fIid\fR,
 or zero if it is not available.
-
+.PP
 The \fBtgetnum\fR routine gets the numeric entry for \fIid\fR,
 or -1 if it is not available.
-
+.PP
 The \fBtgetstr\fR routine returns the string entry for \fIid\fR,
 or zero if it is not available.
 Use \fBtputs\fR to output the returned string.
 The return value will also be copied to the buffer pointed to by \fIarea\fR,
 and the \fIarea\fR value will be updated to point past the null ending
 this value.
-
+.PP
 Only the first two characters of the \fBid\fR parameter of
 \fBtgetflag\fR,
 \fBtgetnum\fR and
 \fBtgetstr\fR are compared in lookups.
-
+.PP
 The \fBtgoto\fR routine instantiates the parameters into the given capability.
 The output from this routine is to be passed to \fBtputs\fR.
-
+.PP
 The \fBtputs\fR routine is described on the \fBcurs_terminfo\fR(3X) manual
 page.  It can retrieve capabilities by either termcap or terminfo name.
-
+.PP
 The variables
 \fBPC\fR,
 \fBUP\fR and
@@ -108,13 +111,13 @@ respectively.
 \fBBC\fR is used in the \fBtgoto\fR emulation.
 The variable \fBospeed\fR is set by ncurses in a system-specific coding
 to reflect the terminal speed.
-
+.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 Except where explicitly noted,
 routines that return an integer return \fBERR\fR upon failure and \fBOK\fR
 (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon successful
 completion.
-
+.PP
 Routines that return pointers return \fBNULL\fR on error.
 .SH BUGS
 If you call \fBtgetstr\fR to fetch \fBca\fR or any other parameterized string,
@@ -126,11 +129,11 @@ terminfo-style strings as terminfo.
 if the string is indeed terminfo-style by looking for "%p" parameters or
 "$<..>" delays, and invoke a termcap-style parser if the string does not
 appear to be terminfo).
-
+.PP
 Because terminfo conventions for representing padding in string capabilities
 differ from termcap's, \fBtputs("50");\fR will put out a literal "50" rather
 than busy-waiting for 50 milliseconds.  Cope with it.
-
+.PP
 Note that termcap has nothing analogous to terminfo's \fBsgr\fR string.
 One consequence of this is that termcap applications assume \fRme\fR
 (terminfo \fBsgr0\fR) does not reset the alternate character set.
@@ -139,7 +142,7 @@ termcap interface to accommodate termcap's limitation in this respect.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.  However, they
 are marked TO BE WITHDRAWN and may be removed in future versions.
-
+.PP
 Neither the XSI Curses standard nor the SVr4 man pages documented the return
 values of \fBtgetent\fR correctly, though all three were in fact returned ever
 since SVr1.
@@ -148,7 +151,7 @@ misinterpreted to mean that \fBtgetent\fR returns \fBOK\fR or \fBERR\fR.
 Because the purpose of these functions is to provide compatibility with
 the \fItermcap\fR library, that is a defect in XCurses, Issue 4, Version 2
 rather than in ncurses.
-
+.PP
 External variables are provided for support of certain termcap applications.
 However, termcap applications' use of those variables is poorly documented,
 e.g., not distinguishing between input and output.