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tic !!!tic NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION COMPATIBILITY EXTENSIONS FILES SEE ALSO ---- !!NAME __tic__ - the ''terminfo'' entry-description compiler !!SYNOPSIS __tic__ [[__-1CINRTVacfrsx__] [[__-e__ ''names''] [[__-o__ ''dir''] [[__-v__[[''n'']] [[__-w__[[''n'']] ''file'' !!DESCRIPTION The command __tic__ translates a __terminfo__ file from source format into compiled format. The compiled format is necessary for use with the library routines in __ncurses__(3X). The results are normally placed in the system terminfo directory __/usr/share/terminfo__. There are two ways to change this behavior. First, you may override the system default by setting the variable __TERMINFO__ in your shell environment to a valid (existing) directory name. Secondly, if __tic__ cannot get access to ''/usr/share/terminfo'' or your TERMINFO directory, it looks for the directory ''$HOME/.terminfo''; if that directory exists, the entry is placed there. Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check for a TERMINFO directory first, look at ''$HOME/.terminfo'' if TERMINFO is not set, and finally look in ''/usr/share/terminfo''. __-a__ tells __tic__ to retain commented-out capabilities rather than discarding them. Capabilities are commented by prefixing them with a period. This sets the __-x__ option, because it treats the commented-out entries as user-defined names. __-c__ tells __tic__ to only check ''file'' for errors, including syntax problems and bad use links. If you specify __-C__ (__-I__) with this option, the code will print warnings 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. __-v__''n'' specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error trace information showing __tic__'s progress. The optional integer ''n'' is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive, indicating the desired level of detail of information. If ''n'' is omitted, the default level is 1. If ''n'' is specified and greater than 1, the level of detail is increased. __-o__''dir'' Write compiled entries to given directory. Overrides the TERMINFO environment variable. __-w__''n'' specifies the width of the output. __-1__ restricts the output to a single column __-C__ Force source translation to termcap format. Note: this differs from the -C option of ''infocmp''(1M) 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. __-G__ Display constant literals in decimal form rather than their character equivalents. __-I__ Force source translation to terminfo format. __-L__ Force source translation to terminfo format using the long C variable names listed in term.h____ __-N__ Disable smart defaults. Normally, when translating from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a number of assumptions about the defaults of string capabilities __reset1_string__, __carriage_return__, __cursor_left__, __cursor_down__, __scroll_forward__, __tab__, __newline__, __key_backspace__, __key_left__, and __key_down__, then attempts to use obsolete termcap capabilities to deduce correct values. It also normally suppresses output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as __bs__. This option forces a more literal translation that also preserves the obsolete capabilities. __-R__''subset'' 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 outright broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own extensions incompatible with SVr4/XSI. Available subsets are terminfo__(5) for details. __-T__ 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). __-V__ reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits. __-r__ 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 termcap up to 4.3BSD) that doesn't handle multiple tc capabilities per entry. __-e__ 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 containing the list if it contains a '/'. (Note: depending on how tic was compiled, this option may require -I or -C.) __-f__ Display complex terminfo strings which contain if/then/else/endif expressions indented for readability. __-g__ Display constant character literals in quoted form rather than their decimal equivalents. __-s__ Summarize the compile by showing the directory into which entries are written, and the number of entries which are compiled. __-x__ Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That is, if you supply a capability name which __tic__ does not recognize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or string) from the syntax and make an extended table entry for that. ''file'' contains one or more __terminfo__ terminal descriptions in source format [[see terminfo(5)]. Each description 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 __tic__ are documented in terminfo(5). The exception is the __use__ capability. When a __use__=''entry''-''name'' field is discovered in a terminal entry currently being compiled, __tic__ reads in the binary from __/usr/share/terminfo__ to complete the entry. (Entries created from ''file'' will be used first. If the environment variable __TERMINFO__ is set, that directory is searched instead of __/usr/share/terminfo__.) __tic__ duplicates the capabilities in ''entry''-''name'' for the current entry, with the exception of those capabilities that explicitly are defined in the current entry. When an entry, e.g., __entry_name_1__, contains a __use=__''entry''_''name''_''2'' field, any canceled capabilities in ''entry''_''name''_''2'' must also appear in __entry_name_1__ before __use=__ for these capabilities to be canceled in __entry_name_1__. If the environment variable __TERMINFO__ is set, the compiled results are placed there instead of __/usr/share/terminfo__. 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. !!COMPATIBILITY There is some evidence that historic __tic__ implementations treated description fields with no whitespace in them as additional aliases or short names. This __tic__ does not do that, but it does warn when description fields may be treated that way and check them for dangerous characters. !!EXTENSIONS Unlike the stock SVr4 __tic__ 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 terminfo(5) 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 __use__ capabilities. This implementation of __tic__ will find __use__ targets anywhere in the source file, or anywhere in the file tree rooted at __TERMINFO__ (if __TERMINFO__ is defined), or in the user's ''$HOME/.terminfo'' directory (if it exists), or (finally) anywhere in the system's file tree of compiled entries. The error messages from this __tic__ have the same format as GNU C error messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's compile facility. The __-C__, __-G__, __-I__, __-N__, __-R__, __-T__, __-V__, __-a__, __-e__, __-f__, __-g__, __-o__, __-r__, __-s__ and __-x__ options are not supported under SVr4. The SVr4 -c mode does not report bad use links. System V does not compile entries to or read entries from your ''$HOME/.terminfo'' directory unless TERMINFO is explicitly set to it. !!FILES __/usr/share/terminfo/?/*__ Compiled terminal description database. !!SEE ALSO __infocmp__(1M), __captoinfo__(1M), __infotocap__(1M), __toe__(1M), __curses__(3X), terminfo(5). ----
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