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There are two ways to + change this behavior. + + First, you may override the system default by setting the + variable <B>TERMINFO</B> in your shell environment to a valid + (existing) directory name. + + Secondly, if <B>tic</B> cannot get access to <I>/usr/share/terminfo</I> + or your TERMINFO directory, it looks for the directory + <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I>; if that directory exists, the entry is + placed there. + + Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check + for a TERMINFO directory first, look at <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I> if + TERMINFO is not set, and finally look in <I>/usr/share/ter-</I> + <I>minfo</I>. + + <B>-a</B> tells <B>tic</B> to retain commented-out capabilities + rather than discarding them. Capabilities are com- + mented by prefixing them with a period. This sets + the <B>-x</B> option, because it treats the commented-out + entries as user-defined names. + + <B>-c</B> tells <B>tic</B> to only check <I>file</I> for errors, including + syntax problems and bad use links. If you specify + <B>-C</B> (<B>-I</B>) 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 (and a + documented limit in terminfo), these entries may + cause core dumps. + + <B>-v</B><I>n</I> specifies that (verbose) output be written to stan- + dard error trace information showing <B>tic</B>'s + progress. The optional integer <I>n</I> is a number from + 1 to 10, inclusive, indicating the desired level of + detail of information. If <I>n</I> is omitted, the + default level is 1. If <I>n</I> is specified and greater + than 1, the level of detail is increased. + + <B>-o</B><I>dir</I> Write compiled entries to given directory. + Overrides the TERMINFO environment variable. + + <B>-w</B><I>n</I> specifies the width of the output. + + <B>-1</B> restricts the output to a single column + + <B>-C</B> Force source translation to termcap format. Note: + this differs from the -C option of <B><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></B> in + that it does not merely translate capability names, + but also translates terminfo strings to termcap + format. Capabilities that are not translatable are + left in the entry under their terminfo names but + commented out with two preceding dots. + + <B>-G</B> Display constant literals in decimal form rather + than their character equivalents. + + <B>-I</B> Force source translation to terminfo format. + + <B>-L</B> Force source translation to terminfo format using + the long C variable names listed in <<B>term.h</B>> + + <B>-N</B> Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating + from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a num- + ber of assumptions about the defaults of string + capabilities <B>reset1_string</B>, <B>carriage_return</B>, <B>cur-</B> + <B>sor_left</B>, <B>cursor_down</B>, <B>scroll_forward</B>, <B>tab</B>, <B>new-</B> + <B>line</B>, <B>key_backspace</B>, <B>key_left</B>, and <B>key_down</B>, then + attempts to use obsolete termcap capabilities to + deduce correct values. It also normally suppresses + output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as <B>bs</B>. + This option forces a more literal translation that + also preserves the obsolete capabilities. + + <B>-R</B><I>subset</I> + Restrict output to a given subset. This option is + for use with archaic versions of terminfo like + those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that don't support + the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and out- + right broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own + extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available + subsets are "SVr1", "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and + "AIX"; see <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B> for details. + + <B>-T</B> eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text. + This is mainly useful for testing and analysis, + since the compiled descriptions are limited (e.g., + 1023 for termcap, 4096 for terminfo). + + <B>-V</B> reports the version of ncurses which was used in + this program, and exits. + + <B>-r</B> Force entry resolution (so there are no remaining + tc capabilities) even when doing translation to + termcap format. This may be needed if you are + preparing a termcap file for a termcap library + (such as GNU termcap up to version 1.3 or BSD term- + cap up to 4.3BSD) that doesn't handle multiple tc + capabilities per entry. + + <B>-e</B> 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 + 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 + require -I or -C.) + + <B>-f</B> Display complex terminfo strings which contain + if/then/else/endif expressions indented for read- + ability. + + <B>-g</B> Display constant character literals in quoted form + rather than their decimal equivalents. + + <B>-s</B> Summarize the compile by showing the directory into + which entries are written, and the number of + entries which are compiled. + + <B>-x</B> Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That + is, if you supply a capability name which <B>tic</B> does + not recognize, it will infer its type (boolean, + number or string) from the syntax and make an + extended table entry for that. + + <I>file</I> contains one or more <B>terminfo</B> terminal descriptions + in source format [see <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B>]. Each descrip- + tion in the file describes the capabilities of a + particular terminal. + + The debug flag levels are as follows: + + 1 Names of files created and linked + + 2 Information related to the ``use'' facility + + 3 Statistics from the hashing algorithm + + 5 String-table memory allocations + + 7 Entries into the string-table + + 8 List of tokens encountered by scanner + + 9 All values computed in construction of the hash + table + + If n is not given, it is taken to be one. + + All but one of the capabilities recognized by <B>tic</B> are doc- + umented in <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B>. The exception is the <B>use</B> capabil- + ity. + + When a <B>use</B>=<I>entry</I>-<I>name</I> field is discovered in a terminal + entry currently being compiled, <B>tic</B> reads in the binary + from <B>/usr/share/terminfo</B> to complete the entry. (Entries + created from <I>file</I> will be used first. If the environment + variable <B>TERMINFO</B> is set, that directory is searched + instead of <B>/usr/share/terminfo</B>.) <B>tic</B> duplicates the capa- + bilities in <I>entry</I>-<I>name</I> for the current entry, with the + exception of those capabilities that explicitly are + defined in the current entry. + + When an entry, e.g., <B>entry_name_1</B>, contains a + <B>use=</B><I>entry</I>_<I>name</I>_<I>2</I> field, any canceled capabilities in + <I>entry</I>_<I>name</I>_<I>2</I> must also appear in <B>entry_name_1</B> before <B>use=</B> + for these capabilities to be canceled in <B>entry_name_1</B>. + + If the environment variable <B>TERMINFO</B> is set, the compiled + results are placed there instead of <B>/usr/share/terminfo</B>. + + Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name + field cannot exceed 512 bytes. Terminal names exceeding + the maximum alias length (32 characters on systems with + long filenames, 14 characters otherwise) will be truncated + to the maximum alias length and a warning message will be + printed. + + +</PRE> +<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE> + There is some evidence that historic <B>tic</B> implementations + treated description fields with no whitespace in them as + additional aliases or short names. This <B>tic</B> does not do + that, but it does warn when description fields may be + treated that way and check them for dangerous characters. + + +</PRE> +<H2>EXTENSIONS</H2><PRE> + Unlike the stock SVr4 <B>tic</B> command, this implementation can + actually compile termcap sources. In fact, entries in + terminfo and termcap syntax can be mixed in a single + source file. See <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B> for the list of termcap + names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names. + + The SVr4 manual pages are not clear on the resolution + rules for <B>use</B> capabilities. This implementation of <B>tic</B> + will find <B>use</B> targets anywhere in the source file, or any- + where in the file tree rooted at <B>TERMINFO</B> (if <B>TERMINFO</B> is + defined), or in the user's <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I> directory (if + it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file + tree of compiled entries. + + The error messages from this <B>tic</B> have the same format as + GNU C error messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's + compile facility. + + The <B>-C</B>, <B>-G</B>, <B>-I</B>, <B>-N</B>, <B>-R</B>, <B>-T</B>, <B>-V</B>, <B>-a</B>, <B>-e</B>, <B>-f</B>, <B>-g</B>, <B>-o</B>, <B>-r</B>, <B>-s</B> + and <B>-x</B> options are not supported under SVr4. The SVr4 -c + mode does not report bad use links. + + System V does not compile entries to or read entries from + your <I>$HOME/.terminfo</I> directory unless TERMINFO is explic- + itly set to it. + + +</PRE> +<H2>FILES</H2><PRE> + <B>/usr/share/terminfo/?/*</B> + Compiled terminal description database. + + +</PRE> +<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE> + <B><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></B>, + <B><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></B>, <B><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></B>. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +</PRE> +<HR> +<ADDRESS> +Man(1) output converted with +<a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html">man2html</a> +</ADDRESS> +</BODY> +</HTML> |