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diff --git a/ncurses-5.3/doc/html/man/term.5.html b/ncurses-5.3/doc/html/man/term.5.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..394d0f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/ncurses-5.3/doc/html/man/term.5.html @@ -0,0 +1,222 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> +<!-- + **************************************************************************** + * Copyright (c) 1998,2002 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 * + * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * + * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * + * distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell * + * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * + * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * + * * + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * + * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * + * * + * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * + * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * + * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * + * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, * + * DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR * + * OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR * + * THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * + * * + * Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright * + * holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the * + * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * + * authorization. * + **************************************************************************** + * @Id: term.5,v 1.14 2002/08/10 21:59:37 tom Exp @ +--> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>TERM 5</TITLE> +<link rev=made href="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +</HEAD> +<BODY> +<H1>TERM 5</H1> +<HR> +<PRE> +<!-- Manpage converted by man2html 3.0.1 --> + +</PRE> +<H2>NAME</H2><PRE> + term - format of compiled term file. + + +</PRE> +<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE> + <STRONG>term</STRONG> + + +</PRE> +<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE> + Compiled terminfo descriptions are placed under the direc- + tory <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>. In order to avoid a linear + search of a huge UNIX system directory, a two-level scheme + is used: <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo/c/name</STRONG> where <EM>name</EM> is the name + of the terminal, and <EM>c</EM> is the first character of <EM>name</EM>. + Thus, <EM>act4</EM> can be found in the file <STRONG>/usr/share/ter-</STRONG> + <STRONG>minfo/a/act4</STRONG>. Synonyms for the same terminal are imple- + mented by multiple links to the same compiled file. + + The format has been chosen so that it will be the same on + all hardware. An 8 or more bit byte is assumed, but no + assumptions about byte ordering or sign extension are + made. + + The compiled file is created with the <EM>tic</EM> program, and + read by the routine <EM>setupterm</EM>. The file is divided into + six parts: the header, terminal names, boolean flags, num- + bers, strings, and string table. + + The header section begins the file. This section contains + six short integers in the format described below. These + integers are (1) the magic number (octal 0432); (2) the + size, in bytes, of the names section; (3) the number of + bytes in the boolean section; (4) the number of short + integers in the numbers section; (5) the number of offsets + (short integers) in the strings section; (6) the size, in + bytes, of the string table. + + 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 values are illegal. This value generally means + that the corresponding capability is missing from this + terminal. Note that this format corresponds to the hard- + ware of the VAX and PDP-11 (that is, little-endian + machines). Machines where this does not correspond to the + hardware must read the integers as two bytes and compute + the little-endian value. + + The terminal names section comes next. It contains the + first line of the terminfo description, listing the vari- + ous names for the terminal, separated by the `|' charac- + ter. The section is terminated with an ASCII NUL charac- + ter. + + The boolean flags have one byte for each flag. This byte + is either 0 or 1 as the flag is present or absent. The + capabilities are in the same order as the file <term.h>. + + 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 + 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. + + 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. + + 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. Otherwise, the + value is taken as an offset from the beginning of the + string table. Special characters in ^X or \c notation are + stored in their interpreted form, not the printing repre- + sentation. Padding information $<nn> and parameter infor- + mation %x are stored intact in uninterpreted form. + + The final section is the string table. It contains all + the values of string capabilities referenced in the string + section. Each string is null terminated. + + Note that it is possible for <EM>setupterm</EM> to expect a differ- + ent set of capabilities than are actually present in the + file. Either the database may have been updated since + <EM>setupterm</EM> has been recompiled (resulting in extra unrecog- + nized entries in the file) or the program may have been + recompiled more recently than the database was updated + (resulting in missing entries). The routine <EM>setupterm</EM> + must be prepared for both possibilities - this is why the + numbers and sizes are included. Also, new capabilities + must always be added at the end of the lists of boolean, + number, and string capabilities. + + Despite the consistent use of little-endian for numbers + and the otherwise self-describing format, it is not wise + to count on portability of binary terminfo entries between + commercial UNIX versions. The problem is that there are + at least three versions of terminfo (under HP-UX, AIX, and + OSF/1) which diverged from System V terminfo after SVr1, + and have added extension capabilities to the string table + that (in the binary format) collide with System V and XSI + Curses extensions. See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for detailed discus- + sion of terminfo source compatibility issues. + + As an example, here is a hex dump of the description for + the Lear-Siegler ADM-3, a popular though rather stupid + early terminal: + + adm3a|lsi adm3a, + am, + cols#80, lines#24, + bel=^G, clear= 32$<1>, cr=^M, cub1=^H, cud1=^J, + cuf1=^L, cup=\E=%p1%{32}%+%c%p2%{32}%+%c, cuu1=^K, + home=^^, ind=^J, + + 0000 1a 01 10 00 02 00 03 00 82 00 31 00 61 64 6d 33 ........ ..1.adm3 + 0010 61 7c 6c 73 69 20 61 64 6d 33 61 00 00 01 50 00 a|lsi ad m3a...P. + 0020 ff ff 18 00 ff ff 00 00 02 00 ff ff ff ff 04 00 ........ ........ + 0030 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 0a 00 25 00 27 00 ff ff ........ ..%.'... + 0040 29 00 ff ff ff ff 2b 00 ff ff 2d 00 ff ff ff ff ).....+. ..-..... + 0050 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 0060 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 0070 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 0080 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 0090 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 00a0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 00b0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 00c0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 00d0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 00e0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 00f0 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 0100 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 0110 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ ........ + 0120 ff ff ff ff ff ff 2f 00 07 00 0d 00 1a 24 3c 31 ....../. .....$<1 + 0130 3e 00 1b 3d 25 70 31 25 7b 33 32 7d 25 2b 25 63 >..=%p1% {32}%+%c + 0140 25 70 32 25 7b 33 32 7d 25 2b 25 63 00 0a 00 1e %p2%{32} %+%c.... + 0150 00 08 00 0c 00 0b 00 0a 00 ........ . + + + Some limitations: total compiled entries cannot exceed + 4096 bytes. The name field cannot exceed 128 bytes. + + +</PRE> +<H2>FILES</H2><PRE> + /usr/share/terminfo/*/* compiled terminal capability data + base + + +</PRE> +<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE> + <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>. + + + + + + + + + + + +</PRE> +<HR> +<ADDRESS> +Man(1) output converted with +<a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html">man2html</a> +</ADDRESS> +</BODY> +</HTML> |