From de9cbef68d4c3ea6cd003ce086e2d3487600ace7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rafan Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:32:02 +0000 Subject: Import ncurses 5.6-20061217 onto the vender branch Approved by: delphij --- contrib/ncurses/man/term.7 | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'contrib/ncurses/man/term.7') diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/man/term.7 b/contrib/ncurses/man/term.7 index 5d51e92..0a77cf6 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/man/term.7 +++ b/contrib/ncurses/man/term.7 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2006 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 * @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.13 2002/04/20 16:50:47 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: term.7,v 1.15 2006/02/25 21:47:06 tom Exp $ .TH TERM 7 .ds n 5 .ds d @TERMINFO@ @@ -65,16 +65,16 @@ which you wish to override the system default type for your line. .PP Terminal type descriptions are stored as files of capability data underneath \*d. To browse a list of all terminal names recognized by the system, do - +.sp toe | more - +.sp from your shell. These capability files are in a binary format optimized for retrieval speed (unlike the old text-based \fBtermcap\fR format they replace); to examine an entry, you must use the \fBinfocmp\fR(1) command. Invoke it as follows: - +.sp infocmp \fIentry-name\fR - +.sp where \fIentry-name\fR is the name of the type you wish to examine (and the name of its capability file the subdirectory of \*d named for its first letter). This command dumps a capability file in the text format described by @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ terminals that also explains how to parse them: First, choose a root name. The root will consist of a lower-case letter followed by up to seven lower-case letters or digits. You need to avoid using punctuation characters in root names, because they are used and interpreted as -filenames and shell meta-characters (such as !, $, *, ? etc.) embedded in them +filenames and shell meta-characters (such as !, $, *, ?, etc.) embedded in them may cause odd and unhelpful behavior. The slash (/), or any other character that may be interpreted by anyone's file system (\e, $, [, ]), is especially dangerous (terminfo is platform-independent, and choosing names with special @@ -136,29 +136,29 @@ with another that has this suffix and uses magic cookies to support multiple attributes. .TP 5 -am -Enable auto-margin (right-margin wraparound) +Enable auto-margin (right-margin wraparound). .TP 5 -m -Mono mode - suppress color support +Mono mode - suppress color support. .TP 5 -na No arrow keys - termcap ignores arrow keys which are actually there on the terminal, so the user can use the arrow keys locally. .TP 5 -nam -No auto-margin - suppress am capability +No auto-margin - suppress am capability. .TP 5 -nl -No labels - suppress soft labels +No labels - suppress soft labels. .TP 5 -nsl -No status line - suppress status line +No status line - suppress status line. .TP 5 -pp Has a printer port which is used. .TP 5 -rv -Terminal in reverse video mode (black on white) +Terminal in reverse video mode (black on white). .TP 5 -s Enable status line. @@ -190,10 +190,10 @@ should be unique within the first 14 characters. compiled terminal capability data base .TP 5 /etc/inittab -tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes). +tty line initialization (AT&T-like UNIXes) .TP 5 /etc/ttys -tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes). +tty line initialization (BSD-like UNIXes) .SH SEE ALSO \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n), \fBterm\fR(\*n). .\"# -- cgit v1.1