ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210109

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

diff --git a/man/tic.1m b/man/tic.1m
index 07111e897daad3004ecdd06242b652e86d4344a0..f0a627d96af8eefd54d5d0bed960c961453496be 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tic.1m
+++ b/man/tic.1m
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 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 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.74 2019/07/20 17:57:09 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tic.1m,v 1.78 2020/12/19 21:32:45 tom Exp $
 .TH @TIC@ 1M ""
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ default directory name (only adding a ".db" suffix).
 .PP
 In either case (directory or hashed database),
 \fB@TIC@\fP will create the container if it does not exist.
-For a directory, this would be the "terminfo" leaf,
+For a directory, this would be the \*(``terminfo\*('' leaf,
 versus a "terminfo.db" file.
 .PP
 The results are normally placed in the system terminfo database \fB\*d\fR.
@@ -128,6 +129,14 @@ directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS environment variable,
 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
@@ -274,7 +283,7 @@ versions of terminfo like those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that do not support
 the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and outright broken ports like AIX 3.x
 that have their own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI.
 Available subsets
-are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX";
+are \*(``SVr1\*('', \*(``Ultrix\*('', \*(``HP\*('', \*(``BSD\*('' and \*(``AIX\*('';
 see \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) for details.
 .TP
 \fB\-r\fR
@@ -443,7 +452,7 @@ to support user-defined capabilities.
 .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
@@ -478,6 +487,9 @@ As of 2019, the surviving implementations of \fBtic\fP
 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
@@ -514,27 +526,44 @@ compiled entries.
 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
 System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your
@@ -544,8 +573,8 @@ System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your
 \fB\*d/?/*\fR
 Compiled terminal description database.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fB@INFOCMP@\fR(1M),
 \fB@CAPTOINFO@\fR(1M),
+\fB@INFOCMP@\fR(1M),
 \fB@INFOTOCAP@\fR(1M),
 \fB@TOE@\fR(1M),
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),