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| 29 | .\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.12 2004/09/25 19:07:11 tom Exp $
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| 30 | .TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats"
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| 31 | .ds n 5
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| 32 | .ds d @TERMINFO@
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| 33 | .SH NAME
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| 34 | terminfo \- terminal capability data base
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| 35 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 36 | \*d/*/*
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| 37 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 38 | .I Terminfo
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| 39 | is a data base describing terminals, used by screen-oriented programs such as
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| 40 | \fBnvi\fR(1),
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| 41 | \fBrogue\fR(1)
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| 42 | and libraries such as
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| 43 | \fBcurses\fR(3X).
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| 44 | .I Terminfo
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| 45 | describes terminals by giving a set of capabilities which they
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| 46 | have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by
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| 47 | specifying padding requirements and initialization sequences.
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| 48 | .PP
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| 49 | Entries in
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| 50 | .I terminfo
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| 51 | consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be
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| 52 | escaped with a backslash or notated as \e054).
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| 53 | White space after the `,' separator is ignored.
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| 54 | The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the
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| 55 | terminal, separated by `|' characters.
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| 56 | The first name given is the most common abbreviation for the terminal,
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| 57 | the last name given should be a long name fully identifying the terminal,
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| 58 | and all others are understood as synonyms for the terminal name.
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| 59 | All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
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| 60 | the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability.
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| 61 | .PP
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| 62 | Lines beginning with a `#' in the first column are treated as comments.
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| 63 | While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fIcaptoinfo\fP
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| 64 | and \fIinfotocap\fP (aliases for \fItic\fP)
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| 65 | will move comments so they occur only between entries.
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| 66 | .PP
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| 67 | Newlines and leading tabs may be used for formatting entries for readability.
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| 68 | These are removed from parsed entries.
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| 69 | The \fIinfocmp\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions:
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| 70 | the result can be read by \fItic\fP.
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| 71 | .PP
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| 72 | Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should
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| 73 | be chosen using the following conventions.
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| 74 | The particular piece of hardware making up the terminal should
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| 75 | have a root name, thus ``hp2621''.
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| 76 | This name should not contain hyphens.
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| 77 | Modes that the hardware can be in, or user preferences, should
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| 78 | be indicated by appending a hyphen and a mode suffix.
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| 79 | Thus, a vt100 in 132 column mode would be vt100-w.
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| 80 | The following suffixes should be used where possible:
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| 81 | .PP
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| 82 | .TS
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| 83 | center ;
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| 84 | l c l
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| 85 | l l l.
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| 86 | \fBSuffix Meaning Example\fP
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| 87 | -\fInn\fP Number of lines on the screen aaa-60
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| 88 | -\fIn\fPp Number of pages of memory c100-4p
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| 89 | -am With automargins (usually the default) vt100-am
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| 90 | -m Mono mode; suppress color ansi-m
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| 91 | -mc Magic cookie; spaces when highlighting wy30-mc
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| 92 | -na No arrow keys (leave them in local) c100-na
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| 93 | -nam Without automatic margins vt100-nam
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| 94 | -nl No status line att4415-nl
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| 95 | -ns No status line hp2626-ns
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| 96 | -rv Reverse video c100-rv
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| 97 | -s Enable status line vt100-s
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| 98 | -vb Use visible bell instead of beep wy370-vb
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| 99 | -w Wide mode (> 80 columns, usually 132) vt100-w
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| 100 | .TE
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| 101 | .PP
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| 102 | For more on terminal naming conventions, see the \fBterm(7)\fR manual page.
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| 103 | .SS Capabilities
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| 104 | .\" Head of terminfo man page ends here
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| 105 | .ps -1
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