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-.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.74 2019/07/20 17:57:09 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.75 2019/10/12 20:56:38 tom Exp $
.TH @TIC@ 1M ""
.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
.el .ds `` ``
a compiled-in list of directories (@TERMINFO_DIRS@), and
.bP
the system terminfo database (\fI\*d\fR).
+.SS ALIASES
+.PP
+This is the same program as @INFOTOCAP@ and @CAPTOINFO@;
+usually those are linked to, or copied from this program:
+.bP
+When invoked as @INFOTOCAP@, @TIC@ sets the \fB\-I\fP option.
+.bP
+When invoked as @CAPTOINFO@, @TIC@ sets the \fB\-C\fP option.
.SS OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-0\fR
.PP
In 2010, Roy Marples provided a \fBtic\fP program
and terminfo library for NetBSD.
-This implementation adapts several features from ncurses,
+That implementation adapts several features from ncurses,
including \fB@TIC@\fP's \fB\-x\fP option.
.PP
The \fB\-c\fP option tells \fB@TIC@\fP to check for problems in the
are SVr4 (AIX, HP-UX and Solaris),
ncurses
and NetBSD curses.
+The SVr4 \fBtic\fP programs all support the \fB\-v\fP option.
+The NetBSD \fBtic\fP program follows X/Open's documentation,
+omitting the \fB\-v\fP option.
.PP
The X/Open rationale states that some implementations of \fBtic\fP
read terminal descriptions from the standard input if the \fIfile\fP
The error messages from this \fB@TIC@\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,
-\fB\-N\fR,
-\fB\-R\fR,
-\fB\-T\fR,
-\fB\-V\fR,
-\fB\-a\fR,
-\fB\-e\fR,
-\fB\-f\fR,
-\fB\-g\fR,
-\fB\-o\fR,
-\fB\-r\fR,
-\fB\-s\fR,
-\fB\-t\fR and
+Aside from \fB\-c\fP and \fB\-v\fP, options are not portable:
+.bP
+Most of @TIC@'s options
+are not supported by SVr4 \fBtic\fP:
+.sp
+.RS
+\fB\-0\fR
+\fB\-1\fR
+\fB\-C\fR
+\fB\-G\fR
+\fB\-I\fR
+\fB\-N\fR
+\fB\-R\fR
+\fB\-T\fR
+\fB\-V\fR
+\fB\-a\fR
+\fB\-e\fR
+\fB\-f\fR
+\fB\-g\fR
+\fB\-o\fR
+\fB\-r\fR
+\fB\-s\fR
+\fB\-t\fR
\fB\-x\fR
-options
-are not supported under SVr4.
+.RE
+.bP
+The NetBSD \fBtic\fP supports a few of the ncurses options
+.sp
+.RS
+\fB\-a\fP
+\fB\-o\fP
+\fB\-x\fP
+.RE
+.IP
+and adds \fB\-S\fP
+(a feature which does the same thing
+as @INFOCMP@'s \fB\-e\fP and \fB\-E\fP options).
+.PP
The SVr4 \fB\-c\fR mode does not report bad \*(``use=\*('' links.
.PP
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