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+.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.15 2006/02/25 21:47:06 tom Exp $
.TH TERM 7
.ds n 5
.ds d @TERMINFO@
.PP
Terminal type descriptions are stored as files of capability data underneath
\*d. To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do
-
+.sp
toe | more
-
+.sp
from your shell. These capability files are in a binary format optimized for
retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based \fBtermcap\fR format they replace);
to examine an entry, you must use the \fBinfocmp\fR(1) command. Invoke it as
follows:
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+.sp
infocmp \fIentry-name\fR
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+.sp
where \fIentry-name\fR is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the
name of its capability file the subdirectory of \*d named for its first
letter). This command dumps a capability file in the text format described by