ncurses 5.5

[ncurses.git] / man / terminfo.head

diff --git a/man/terminfo.head b/man/terminfo.head
index 3869cca0babe066fd9fdc1c4524bae1c713f6638..398170fffda59b9cdaaff3581b45c9c8bfe1e169 100644 (file)
--- a/man/terminfo.head
+++ b/man/terminfo.head
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2004 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: terminfo.head,v 1.10 2002/08/17 23:37:10 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.12 2004/09/25 19:07:11 tom Exp $
 .TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats"
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ and all others are understood as synonyms for the terminal name.
 All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
 the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability.
 .PP
+Lines beginning with a `#' in the first column are treated as comments.
+While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fIcaptoinfo\fP
+and \fIinfotocap\fP (aliases for \fItic\fP)
+will move comments so they occur only between entries.
+.PP
+Newlines and leading tabs may be used for formatting entries for readability.
+These are removed from parsed entries.
+The \fIinfocmp\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions:
+the result can be read by \fItic\fP.
+.PP
 Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should
 be chosen using the following conventions.
 The particular piece of hardware making up the terminal should