ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619

[ncurses.git] / man / tput.1

diff --git a/man/tput.1 b/man/tput.1
index 7e20fbed5b2046759171e50c829f648788ae8509..fb27ae4cddcc822c48e04612bcb8e6eac752e824 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tput.1
+++ b/man/tput.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                     *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
 .\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.64 2020/04/25 21:52:49 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tput.1,v 1.67 2021/06/17 21:11:08 tom Exp $
 .TH @TPUT@ 1 ""
 .ds d @TERMINFO@
 .ds n 1
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ features used in the \fBcup\fR example,
 were not supported in BSD curses before 4.3reno (1989) or in
 AT&T/USL curses before SVr4 (1988).
 .PP
-IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group  Base Specifications Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) 
+IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group  Base Specifications Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008)
 documents only the operands for \fBclear\fP, \fBinit\fP and \fBreset\fP.
 There are a few interesting observations to make regarding that:
 .bP
@@ -547,6 +547,9 @@ A few platforms such as FreeBSD recognize termcap names rather
 than terminfo capability names in their respective \fBtput\fP commands.
 Since 2010, NetBSD's \fBtput\fP uses terminfo names.
 Before that, it (like FreeBSD) recognized termcap names.
+.IP
+Beginning in 2021, FreeBSD uses the ncurses \fBtput\fP,
+configured for both terminfo (tested first) and termcap (as a fallback).
 .PP
 Because (apparently) \fIall\fP of the certified Unix systems
 support the full set of capability names, the reasoning for documenting
@@ -590,8 +593,8 @@ to either ncurses or X/Open.
 \fBstty\fR(1),
 \fB@TABS@\fR(\*n),
 \fB@TSET@\fR(\*n),
-\fBterminfo\fR(5),
-\fBcurs_termcap\fR(3X).
+\fBcurs_termcap\fR(3X),
+\fBterminfo\fR(5).
 .PP
 This describes \fBncurses\fR
 version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).