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+.\"***************************************************************************
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+.\" $Id: term.5,v 1.9 1998/03/11 21:12:53 juergen Exp $
+.TH TERM 5
+.ds n 5
+.ds d @DATADIR@/terminfo
+.SH NAME
+term \- format of compiled term file.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B term
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+Compiled terminfo descriptions are placed under the directory \fB\*d\fP.
+In order to avoid a linear search of a huge \s-1UNIX\s+1 system directory, a
+two-level scheme is used: \fB\*b/c/name\fP
+where
+.I name
+is the name of the terminal, and
+.I c
+is the first character of
+.IR name .
+Thus,
+.I act4
+can be found in the file \fB\*d/a/act4\fP.
+Synonyms for the same terminal are implemented by multiple
+links to the same compiled file.
+.PP
+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.
+.PP
+The compiled file is created with the
+.I tic
+program, and read by the routine
+.IR setupterm .
+The file is divided into six parts:
+the header,
+terminal names,
+boolean flags,
+numbers,
+strings,
+and
+string table.
+.PP
+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.
+.PP
+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 hardware of the \s-1VAX\s+1
+and \s-1PDP\s+1-11 (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.
+.PP
+The terminal names section comes next.
+It contains the first line of the terminfo description,
+listing the various names for the terminal,
+separated by the `|' character.
+The section is terminated with an \s-1ASCII NUL\s+1 character.
+.PP
+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>.
+.PP
+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.
+.PP
+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.
+.PP
+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 \ec notation are stored in their
+interpreted form, not the printing representation.
+Padding information $<nn> and parameter information %x are
+stored intact in uninterpreted form.
+.PP
+The final section is the string table.
+It contains all the values of string capabilities referenced in
+the string section.
+Each string is null terminated.
+.PP
+Note that it is possible for
+.I setupterm
+to expect a different set of capabilities
+than are actually present in the file.
+Either the database may have been updated since
+.I setupterm
+has been recompiled
+(resulting in extra unrecognized entries in the file)
+or the program may have been recompiled more recently
+than the database was updated
+(resulting in missing entries).
+The routine
+.I setupterm
+must be prepared for both possibilities \-
+this is why the numbers and sizes are included.
+Also, new capabilities must always be added at the end of the lists
+of boolean, number, and string capabilities.
+.PP
+Despite the consistent use of little-endian for numbers and the otherwise
+self-describing format, it is not wise to count on portability of binary
+terminfo entries between commercial UNIX versions. The problem is that there
+are at least three versions of terminfo (under HP-UX, AIX, and OSF/1) which
+diverged from System V terminfo after SVr1, and have added extension
+capabilities to the string table that (in the binary format) collide with
+System V and XSI Curses extensions. See \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) for detailed
+discussion of terminfo source compatibility issues.
+.PP
+As an example, here is a hex dump of the description for the Lear-Siegler
+ADM-3, a popular though rather stupid early terminal:
+.nf
+.sp
+adm3a|lsi adm3a,
+ am,
+ cols#80, lines#24,
+ bel=^G, clear=\032$<1>, cr=^M, cub1=^H, cud1=^J,
+ cuf1=^L, cup=\E=%p1%{32}%+%c%p2%{32}%+%c, cuu1=^K,
+ home=^^, ind=^J,
+.sp
+.ft CW
+\s-20000 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 ........ .\s+2
+.ft R
+.fi
+.sp
+.PP
+Some limitations: total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes.
+The name field cannot exceed 128 bytes.
+.SH FILES
+\*d/*/* compiled terminal capability data base
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+\fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n).
+.\"#
+.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
+.\"# Local Variables:
+.\"# mode:nroff
+.\"# fill-column:79
+.\"# End:
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