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TIC(1) |
General Commands Manual |
TIC(1) |
NAME
tic — terminfo compiler
SYNOPSIS
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tic |
[-acSsx] [-o file] source [term1 term2 ...] |
DESCRIPTION
The
tic utility compiles
terminfo(5) source into a database for use by other programs. The created database path name is the same as the source but with .cdb appended.
The following options are available:
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-a
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Do not discard commented out capabilities.
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-c
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Only check for errors, don't write the final database.
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-o file
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Write the database to file instead of source.cdb.
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-S
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For term1, term2, ... output a C structure containing name, compiled description, and compiled size. This can be used to embed terminal descriptions into a program.
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-s
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Display the number of terminal descriptions written to the database.
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-x
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Include non standard capabilities defined in the source.
Extensions To Terminfo
When tic discovers a use=term capability, the terminal description for term is merged in. Capabilities do not overwrite previously disovered ones and capabilities ending with @ are marked as absent so the terminal does not inherit the capability from used terminals.
EXIT STATUS
The tic utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
To maintain your private terminfo definitions, if the system supplied ones do not support your terminal:
tic ~/.terminfo
STANDARDS
The tic utility works with terminfo files that conform to the X/Open Curses Issue 4, Version 2 (“XCURSES4.2”) standard.
