ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111001

[ncurses.git] / man / tic.1m

diff --git a/man/tic.1m b/man/tic.1m
index 2e1c24ec170615bfac524c7742c66754df58d895..36b5431471b056e5db7d25d766dde1c67a72cc4d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tic.1m
+++ b/man/tic.1m
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 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: tic.1m,v 1.46 2010/08/28 19:41:09 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.50 2011/09/26 23:59:40 tom Exp $
 .TH @TIC@ 1M ""
 .ds n 5
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
@@ -35,10 +35,12 @@
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fBtic\fR
 [\fB\-\
+0\
 1\
 C\
 G\
 I\
+K\
 L\
 N\
 T\
@@ -81,6 +83,9 @@ Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check for a TERMINFO
 directory first, look at \fI$HOME/.terminfo\fR if TERMINFO is not set, and
 finally look in \fI\*d\fR.
 .TP
+\fB\-0\fR
+restricts the output to a single line
+.TP
 \fB\-1\fR
 restricts the output to a single column
 .TP
@@ -101,6 +106,9 @@ names, but also translates terminfo strings to termcap format.
 Capabilities
 that are not translatable are left in the entry under their terminfo names
 but commented out with two preceding dots.
+The actual format used incorporates some improvements for escaped characters
+from terminfo format.
+For a stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the \fB\-K\fR option.
 .TP
 \fB\-c\fR
 tells \fBtic\fP to only check \fIfile\fR for errors, including syntax problems and
@@ -108,9 +116,11 @@ bad use links.
 If you specify \fB\-C\fR (\fB\-I\fR) with this option, the code
 will print warnings about entries which, after use resolution, are more than
 1023 (4096) bytes long.
-Due to a fixed buffer length in older termcap
-libraries (and a documented limit in terminfo), these entries may cause core
-dumps.
+Due to a fixed buffer length in older termcap libraries,
+as well as buggy checking for the buffer length
+(and a documented limit in terminfo),
+these entries may cause core
+dumps with other implementations.
 .TP
 \fB\-e \fR\fInames\fR
 Limit writes and translations to the following comma-separated list of
@@ -137,6 +147,10 @@ rather than their decimal equivalents.
 \fB\-I\fR
 Force source translation to terminfo format.
 .TP
+\fB\-K\fR
+Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to termcap format,
+e.g., "\\s" for space.
+.TP
 \fB\-L\fR
 Force source translation to terminfo format
 using the long C variable names listed in <\fBterm.h\fR>
@@ -308,6 +322,8 @@ The error messages from this \fBtic\fR have the same format as GNU C
 error messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's compile facility.
 .PP
 The
+\fB\-0\fR,
+\fB\-1\fR,
 \fB\-C\fR,
 \fB\-G\fR,
 \fB\-I\fR,
@@ -349,9 +365,3 @@ Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
 and
 .br
 Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
-.\"#
-.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
-.\"# Local Variables:
-.\"# mode:nroff
-.\"# fill-column:79
-.\"# End: