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diff --git a/ncurses-5.3/man/terminfo.head b/ncurses-5.3/man/terminfo.head new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a71f73b --- /dev/null +++ b/ncurses-5.3/man/terminfo.head @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +.\"*************************************************************************** +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2002 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. * +.\"*************************************************************************** +.\" +.\" $Id$ +.TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats" +.ds n 5 +.ds d @TERMINFO@ +.SH NAME +terminfo \- terminal capability data base +.SH SYNOPSIS +\*d/*/* +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Terminfo +is a data base describing terminals, used by screen-oriented programs such as +\fBnvi\fR(1), +\fBrogue\fR(1) +and libraries such as +\fBcurses\fR(3X). +.I Terminfo +describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they +have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by +specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences. +.PP +Entries in +.I terminfo +consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be +escaped with a backslash or notated as \e054). +White space after the `,' separator is ignored. +The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the +terminal, separated by `|' characters. +The first name given is the most common abbreviation for the terminal, +the last name given should be a long name fully identifying the terminal, +and all others are understood as synonyms for the terminal name. +All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks; +the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability. +.PP +Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should +be chosen using the following conventions. +The particular piece of hardware making up the terminal should +have a root name, thus ``hp2621''. +This name should not contain hyphens. +Modes that the hardware can be in, or user preferences, should +be indicated by appending a hyphen and a mode suffix. +Thus, a vt100 in 132 column mode would be vt100-w. +The following suffixes should be used where possible: +.PP +.TS +center ; +l c l +l l l. +\fBSuffix Meaning Example\fP +-\fInn\fP Number of lines on the screen aaa-60 +-\fIn\fPp Number of pages of memory c100-4p +-am With automargins (usually the default) vt100-am +-m Mono mode; suppress color ansi-m +-mc Magic cookie; spaces when highlighting wy30-mc +-na No arrow keys (leave them in local) c100-na +-nam Without automatic margins vt100-nam +-nl No status line att4415-nl +-ns No status line hp2626-ns +-rv Reverse video c100-rv +-s Enable status line vt100-s +-vb Use visible bell instead of beep wy370-vb +-w Wide mode (> 80 columns, usually 132) vt100-w +.TE +.PP +For more on terminal naming conventions, see the \fBterm(7)\fR manual page. +.SS Capabilities +.\" Head of terminfo man page ends here +.ps -1 |