ncurses 5.5

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@@ -1,6 +1,35 @@
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+.\" $Id: term.5,v 1.16 2004/07/05 13:16:08 tom Exp $
 .TH TERM 5
 .ds n 5
-.ds d @DATADIR@/terminfo
+.ds d @TERMINFO@
 .SH NAME
 term \- format of compiled term file.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -9,7 +38,7 @@ term \- format of compiled term file.
 .PP
 Compiled terminfo descriptions are placed under the directory \fB\*d\fP.
 In order to avoid a linear search of a huge \s-1UNIX\s+1 system directory, a
-two-level scheme is used: \fB\*b/c/name\fP
+two-level scheme is used: \fB\*d/c/name\fP
 where
 .I name
 is the name of the terminal, and
@@ -27,7 +56,7 @@ An 8 or more bit byte is assumed, but no assumptions about byte ordering
 or sign extension are made.
 .PP
 The compiled file is created with the
-.I tic 
+.I tic
 program, and read by the routine
 .IR setupterm .
 The file is divided into six parts:
@@ -54,8 +83,8 @@ Short integers are stored in two 8-bit bytes.
 The first byte contains the least significant 8 bits of the value,
 and the second byte contains the most significant 8 bits.
 (Thus, the value represented is 256*second+first.)
-The value \-1 is represented by the two bytes 0377, 0377; other negative
-values are illegal. This value generally 
+The value -1 is represented by the two bytes 0377, 0377; other negative
+values are illegal. This value generally
 means that the corresponding capability is missing from this terminal.
 Note that this format corresponds to the hardware of the \s-1VAX\s+1
 and \s-1PDP\s+1-11 (that is, little-endian machines).
@@ -83,11 +112,11 @@ All short integers are aligned on a short word boundary.
 The numbers section is similar to the flags section.
 Each capability takes up two bytes,
 and is stored as a little-endian short integer.
-If the value represented is \-1, the capability is taken to be missing.
+If the value represented is -1, the capability is taken to be missing.
 .PP
 The strings section is also similar.
 Each capability is stored as a short integer, in the format above.
-A value of \-1 means the capability is missing.
+A value of -1 means the capability is missing.
 Otherwise, the value is taken as an offset from the beginning
 of the string table.
 Special characters in ^X or \ec notation are stored in their
@@ -131,12 +160,12 @@ As an example, here is a hex dump of the description for the Lear-Siegler
 ADM-3, a popular though rather stupid early terminal:
 .nf
 .sp
-adm3a|lsi adm3a, 
-        am, 
-        cols#80, lines#24, 
-        bel=^G, clear=\032$<1>, cr=^M, cub1=^H, cud1=^J, 
-        cuf1=^L, cup=\E=%p1%{32}%+%c%p2%{32}%+%c, cuu1=^K, 
-        home=^^, ind=^J, 
+adm3a|lsi adm3a,
+        am,
+        cols#80, lines#24,
+        bel=^G, clear=\032$<1>, cr=^M, cub1=^H, cud1=^J,
+        cuf1=^L, cup=\\E=%p1%{32}%+%c%p2%{32}%+%c, cuu1=^K,
+        home=^^, ind=^J,
 .sp
 .ft CW
 \s-20000  1a 01 10 00 02 00 03 00  82 00 31 00 61 64 6d 33  ........ ..1.adm3
@@ -169,7 +198,7 @@ Some limitations: total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes.
 The name field cannot exceed 128 bytes.
 .SH FILES
 \*d/*/*        compiled terminal capability data base
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n).
 .\"#
 .\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS