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.\"***************************************************************************
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.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2004,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
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.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
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.\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the *
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.\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including *
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.\" distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell *
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.\" furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: *
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.\" *
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.\" *
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.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS *
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.\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF *
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. *
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.\" OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR *
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.\" THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. *
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.\" *
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.\" Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright *
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.\" authorization. *
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.\"***************************************************************************
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.\"
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.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.13 2006/05/13 15:35:45 tom Exp $
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.TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats"
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.ds n 5
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.ds d @TERMINFO@
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.SH NAME
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terminfo \- terminal capability data base
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\*d/*/*
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Terminfo
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is a data base describing terminals, used by screen-oriented programs such as
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\fBnvi\fR(1),
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\fBrogue\fR(1)
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and libraries such as
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\fBcurses\fR(3X).
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.I Terminfo
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describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they
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have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by
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specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences.
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This describes \fBncurses\fR
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version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
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.PP
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Entries in
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.I terminfo
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consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be
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escaped with a backslash or notated as \e054).
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White space after the `,' separator is ignored.
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The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the
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terminal, separated by `|' characters.
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The first name given is the most common abbreviation for the terminal,
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the last name given should be a long name fully identifying the terminal,
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and all others are understood as synonyms for the terminal name.
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All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
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the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability.
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.PP
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Lines beginning with a `#' in the first column are treated as comments.
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While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fIcaptoinfo\fP
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and \fIinfotocap\fP (aliases for \fItic\fP)
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will move comments so they occur only between entries.
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.PP
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Newlines and leading tabs may be used for formatting entries for readability.
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These are removed from parsed entries.
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The \fIinfocmp\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions:
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the result can be read by \fItic\fP.
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.PP
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Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should
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be chosen using the following conventions.
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The particular piece of hardware making up the terminal should
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have a root name, thus ``hp2621''.
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This name should not contain hyphens.
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Modes that the hardware can be in, or user preferences, should
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be indicated by appending a hyphen and a mode suffix.
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Thus, a vt100 in 132 column mode would be vt100-w.
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The following suffixes should be used where possible:
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.PP
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.TS
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center ;
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l c l
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l l l.
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\fBSuffix Meaning Example\fP
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-\fInn\fP Number of lines on the screen aaa-60
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-\fIn\fPp Number of pages of memory c100-4p
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-am With automargins (usually the default) vt100-am
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-m Mono mode; suppress color ansi-m
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-mc Magic cookie; spaces when highlighting wy30-mc
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-na No arrow keys (leave them in local) c100-na
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-nam Without automatic margins vt100-nam
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-nl No status line att4415-nl
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-ns No status line hp2626-ns
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-rv Reverse video c100-rv
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-s Enable status line vt100-s
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-vb Use visible bell instead of beep wy370-vb
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-w Wide mode (> 80 columns, usually 132) vt100-w
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.TE
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.PP
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For more on terminal naming conventions, see the \fBterm(7)\fR manual page.
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.SS Capabilities
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.\" Head of terminfo man page ends here
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.ps -1
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