The tic command translates a terminfo file from source
format into compiled format. The compiled format is nec-
essary for use with the library routines in ncurses(3x).
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o the system terminfo database (/usr/share/terminfo).
- OPTIONS
+
+
-0 restricts the output to a single line
-1 restricts the output to a single column
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stricter BSD-compatible translation, add the -K
option.
- -c tells tic to only check file for errors, including
- syntax problems and bad use links. If you specify
+ If this is combined with -c, tic makes additional
+ checks to report cases where the terminfo values do
+ not have an exact equivalent in termcap form. For
+ example:
+
+ osgr usually will not convert, because termcap
+ lacks the ability to work with more than two
+ parameters, and because termcap lacks many of
+ the arithmetic/logical operators used in ter-
+ minfo.
+
+ o capabilities with more than one delay or with
+ delays before the end of the string will not
+ convert completely.
+
+ -c tells tic to only check file for errors, including
+ syntax problems and bad use links. If you specify
-C (-I) with this option, the code will print warn-
ings about entries which, after use resolution, are
- more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a fixed
- buffer length in older termcap libraries, as well
+ more than 1023 (4096) bytes long. Due to a fixed
+ buffer length in older termcap libraries, as well
as buggy checking for the buffer length (and a doc-
umented limit in terminfo), these entries may cause
core dumps with other implementations.
- -D tells tic to print the database locations that it
+ tic checks string capabilities to ensure that those
+ with parameters will be valid expressions. It does
+ this check only for the predefined string capabili-
+ ties; those which are defined with the -x option
+ are ignored.
+
+ -D tells tic to print the database locations that it
knows about, and exit. The first location shown is
- the one to which it would write compiled terminal
+ the one to which it would write compiled terminal
descriptions. If tic is not able to find a
- writable database location according to the rules
- summarized above, it will print a diagnostic and
- exit with an error rather than printing a list of
+ writable database location according to the rules
+ summarized above, it will print a diagnostic and
+ exit with an error rather than printing a list of
database locations.
-enames
- Limit writes and translations to the following
- comma-separated list of terminals. If any name or
+ Limit writes and translations to the following
+ comma-separated list of terminals. If any name or
alias of a terminal matches one of the names in the
- list, the entry will be written or translated as
- normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
+ list, the entry will be written or translated as
+ normal. Otherwise no output will be generated for
it. The option value is interpreted as a file con-
- taining the list if it contains a '/'. (Note:
- depending on how tic was compiled, this option may
+ taining the list if it contains a '/'. (Note:
+ depending on how tic was compiled, this option may
require -I or -C.)
-f Display complex terminfo strings which contain
- if/then/else/endif expressions indented for read-
+ if/then/else/endif expressions indented for read-
ability.
- -G Display constant literals in decimal form rather
+ -G Display constant literals in decimal form rather
than their character equivalents.
- -g Display constant character literals in quoted form
+ -g Display constant character literals in quoted form
rather than their decimal equivalents.
-I Force source translation to terminfo format.
- -K Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to
+ -K Suppress some longstanding ncurses extensions to
termcap format, e.g., "\s" for space.
- -L Force source translation to terminfo format using
+ -L Force source translation to terminfo format using
the long C variable names listed in <term.h>
-N Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating
from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a num-
- ber of assumptions about the defaults of string
- capabilities reset1_string, carriage_return, cur-
- sor_left, cursor_down, scroll_forward, tab, new-
- line, key_backspace, key_left, and key_down, then
- attempts to use obsolete termcap capabilities to
+ ber of assumptions about the defaults of string
+ capabilities reset1_string, carriage_return, cur-
+ sor_left, cursor_down, scroll_forward, tab, new-
+ line, key_backspace, key_left, and key_down, then
+ attempts to use obsolete termcap capabilities to
deduce correct values. It also normally suppresses
output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as bs.
- This option forces a more literal translation that
+ This option forces a more literal translation that
also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
- -odir Write compiled entries to given database location.
+ -odir Write compiled entries to given database location.
Overrides the TERMINFO environment variable.
+ -Qn Rather than show source in terminfo (text) format,
+ print the compiled (binary) format in hexadecimal
+ or base64 form, depending on the option's value:
+
+ 1 hexadecimal
+
+ 2 base64
+
+ 3 hexadecimal and base64
+
+ -q Suppress comments and blank lines when showing
+ translated source.
+
-Rsubset
Restrict output to a given subset. This option is
for use with archaic versions of terminfo like
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whose name begins with "k" are treated as function
keys.
- PARAMETERS
+
+
file contains one or more terminfo terminal descriptions
in source format [see terminfo(5)]. Each descrip-
tion in the file describes the capabilities of a
@@ -293,7 +326,8 @@
standard input. The file parameter may also be the
path of a character-device.
- PROCESSING
+
+
All but one of the capabilities recognized by tic are doc-
umented in terminfo(5). The exception is the use capabil-
ity.
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printed.
-
There is some evidence that historic tic implementations
treated description fields with no whitespace in them as
additional aliases or short names. This tic does not do
@@ -328,8 +361,7 @@
treated that way and check them for dangerous characters.
-
Unlike the SVr4 tic command, this implementation can actu-
ally compile termcap sources. In fact, entries in ter-
minfo and termcap syntax can be mixed in a single source
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itly set to it.
-