ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231014

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

diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x
index 170b50c8833f119155545ebbbcb9ef76a5014738..d6911f36a0a542bf0a80cfb5f7cf5dad09dfacf8 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ncurses.3x
+++ b/man/ncurses.3x
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.178 2023/10/07 22:17:08 tom Exp $
-.TH ncurses 3X 2023-10-07 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: ncurses.3x,v 1.179 2023/10/14 19:29:06 tom Exp $
+.TH ncurses 3X 2023-10-14 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
 .ie \n(.g \{\
 .ds `` \(lq
 .ds '' \(rq
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ Before a \fBcurses\fP program is run, the tab stops of the terminal
 should be set and its initialization strings, if defined, must be output.
 This can be done by executing the \fB@TPUT@ init\fP command
 after the shell environment variable \fBTERM\fP has been exported.
-\fB@TSET@(1)\fP is usually responsible for doing this.
-[See \fBterminfo\fP(\*n) for further details.]
+(The BSD-style \fB\%@TSET@\fP(1) utility also performs this function.)
+See subsection \*(``Tabs and Initialization\*('' of \fBterminfo\fP(\*n).
 .SS Datatypes
 The \fBncurses\fP library permits manipulation of data structures,
 called \fIwindows\fP, which can be thought of as two-dimensional
@@ -1368,10 +1368,11 @@ Configure scripts should check for the function's existence rather
 than assuming it is always in the debug library.
 .SH FILES
 .TP 5
-@DATADIR@/tabset
-directory containing initialization files for the terminal capability database
-@TERMINFO@
-terminal capability database
+.I @DATADIR@/tabset
+tab stop initialization database
+.TP
+.I \*d
+compiled terminal capability database
 .SH EXTENSIONS
 The \fBncurses\fP library can be compiled with an option (\fB\-DUSE_GETCAP\fP)
 that falls back to the old-style /etc/termcap file if the terminal setup code