- -Ttype indicates the type of terminal. Normally this option is unnec-
- essary, because the default is taken from the environment vari-
- able TERM. If -T is specified, then the shell variables LINES
- and COLUMNS will also be ignored.
-
- -S allows more than one capability per invocation of tput. The
- capabilities must be passed to tput from the standard input
- instead of from the command line (see example). Only one cap-
- name is allowed per line. The -S option changes the meaning of
- the 0 and 1 boolean and string exit codes (see the EXIT CODES
+ -S allows more than one capability per invocation of tput. The
+ capabilities must be passed to tput from the standard input
+ instead of from the command line (see example). Only one cap-
+ name is allowed per line. The -S option changes the meaning of
+ the 0 and 1 boolean and string exit codes (see the EXIT CODES
section).
- Again, tput uses a table and the presence of parameters in its
+ Because some capabilities may use string parameters rather than
+ numbers, tput uses a table and the presence of parameters in its
input to decide whether to use tparm(3x), and how to interpret
the parameters.
- -V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program,
+ -Ttype indicates the type of terminal. Normally this option is unnec-
+ essary, because the default is taken from the environment vari-
+ able TERM. If -T is specified, then the shell variables LINES
+ and COLUMNS will also be ignored.
+
+ -V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program,
and exits.
+ -x do not attempt to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer using
+ the extended "E3" capability.
+