ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111008

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

diff --git a/man/tic.1m b/man/tic.1m
index f9254138977d0251677385e0798e4da9c596c348..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 1.48 2011/07/30 21:58:54 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@
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fBtic\fR
 [\fB\-\
+0\
 1\
 C\
 G\
@@ -82,6 +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
@@ -104,7 +108,7 @@ 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, use the \fB\-K\fR option.
+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
@@ -112,9 +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
@@ -141,6 +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>
@@ -312,6 +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,