ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070303

[ncurses.git] / man / term.7

diff --git a/man/term.7 b/man/term.7
index e3be223b0424cb3ddeb82912067f4fa35f24e16f..f4acf7d80cd03dda46713b859b57872f0b4ed40c 100644 (file)
--- a/man/term.7
+++ b/man/term.7
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2006 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            *
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.14 2003/05/10 20:33:49 jmc Exp $
-.TH TERM 7
+.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.17 2006/12/24 18:14:09 tom Exp $
+.TH term 7
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .SH NAME
@@ -65,16 +65,16 @@ which you wish to override the system default type for your line.
 .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
-
-       toe | more
-
+.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:
-
-       infocmp \fIentry-name\fR
-
+to examine an entry, you must use the \fB@INFOCMP@\fR(1M) command.
+Invoke it as follows:
+.sp
+       @INFOCMP@ \fIentry-name\fR
+.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