X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fterm.5;h=a8055e9a63aa2eeb4edf4fba1b5efa8955b046ec;hp=19af62a350ed48c68b3f45fcee6c9e38f88b353d;hb=6b96eb711cbf58da43002ff14b66d8a52c19a731;hpb=f70db18a0c3c6a828d8a5999be37239f01c9d98a diff --git a/man/term.5 b/man/term.5 index 19af62a3..a8055e9a 100644 --- a/man/term.5 +++ b/man/term.5 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2004,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 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 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: term.5,v 1.19 2006/12/24 18:12:38 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: term.5,v 1.21 2010/12/04 18:40:45 tom Exp $ .TH term 5 .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Short integers are stored in two 8-bit bytes. The first byte contains the least significant 8 bits of the value, and the second byte contains the most significant 8 bits. (Thus, the value represented is 256*second+first.) -The value -1 is represented by the two bytes 0377, 0377; other negative +The value \-1 is represented by the two bytes 0377, 0377; other negative values are illegal. This value generally means that the corresponding capability is missing from this terminal. Note that this format corresponds to the hardware of the \s-1VAX\s+1 @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ The capabilities are in the same order as the file . Between the boolean section and the number section, a null byte will be inserted, if necessary, to ensure that the number section begins on an even byte (this is a -relic of the PDP-11's word-addressed architecture, originally +relic of the PDP\-11's word-addressed architecture, originally designed in to avoid IOT traps induced by addressing a word on an odd byte boundary). All short integers are aligned on a short word boundary. @@ -138,11 +138,11 @@ All short integers are aligned on a short word boundary. The numbers section is similar to the flags section. Each capability takes up two bytes, and is stored as a little-endian short integer. -If the value represented is -1, the capability is taken to be missing. +If the value represented is \-1, the capability is taken to be missing. .PP The strings section is also similar. Each capability is stored as a short integer, in the format above. -A value of -1 means the capability is missing. +A value of \-1 means the capability is missing. Otherwise, the value is taken as an offset from the beginning of the string table. Special characters in ^X or \ec notation are stored in their @@ -217,14 +217,14 @@ of boolean, number, and string capabilities. Despite the consistent use of little-endian for numbers and the otherwise self-describing format, it is not wise to count on portability of binary terminfo entries between commercial UNIX versions. The problem is that there -are at least three versions of terminfo (under HP-UX, AIX, and OSF/1) which +are at least three versions of terminfo (under HP\-UX, AIX, and OSF/1) which diverged from System V terminfo after SVr1, and have added extension capabilities to the string table that (in the binary format) collide with System V and XSI Curses extensions. See \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) for detailed discussion of terminfo source compatibility issues. .SH EXAMPLE As an example, here is a hex dump of the description for the Lear-Siegler -ADM-3, a popular though rather stupid early terminal: +ADM\-3, a popular though rather stupid early terminal: .nf .sp adm3a|lsi adm3a, @@ -275,9 +275,3 @@ extended terminfo format for ncurses 5.0 hashed database support for ncurses 5.6 .sp Eric S. Raymond -.\"# -.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS -.\"# Local Variables: -.\"# mode:nroff -.\"# fill-column:79 -.\"# End: