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for a compiled description.
If it fails to find one there, and the environment variable TERMINFO_DIRS is
set, it will interpret the contents of that variable as a list of colon-
-separated directories to be searched (an empty entry is interpreted as a
-command to search \fI\*d\fR).
+separated directories (or database files) to be searched
+(an empty entry is interpreted as a command to search \fI\*d\fR).
If no description is found in any of the
TERMINFO_DIRS directories, the fetch fails.
.PP
.SH AUTHORS
Zeyd M. Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Thomas E. Dickey.
Based on pcurses by Pavel Curtis.
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