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  43 <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>                                                         <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
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  49 <H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
  50        <STRONG>tic</STRONG> - the <EM>terminfo</EM> entry-description compiler
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  54 <H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
  55        <STRONG>tic</STRONG>  [<STRONG>-1CGILNTUVacfgrstx</STRONG>]  [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>] [<STRONG>-o</STRONG> <EM>dir</EM>] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <EM>subset</EM>]
  56        [<STRONG>-v</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] [<STRONG>-w</STRONG>[<EM>n</EM>]] <EM>file</EM>
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  60 <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
  61        The command <STRONG>tic</STRONG> translates a  <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  file  from  source
  62        format  into compiled format.  The compiled format is nec-
  63        essary for use with the library routines in <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
  64
  65        The results are normally placed  in  the  system  terminfo
  66        directory  <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>.   There  are  two  ways to
  67        change this behavior.
  68
  69        First, you may override the system default by setting  the
  70        variable  <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>  in  your  shell environment to a valid
  71        (existing) directory name.
  72
  73        Secondly, if <STRONG>tic</STRONG> cannot get access to  <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM>
  74        or  your  TERMINFO  directory,  it looks for the directory
  75        <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM>; if that directory exists,  the  entry  is
  76        placed there.
  77
  78        Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check
  79        for a TERMINFO directory first, look at <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> if
  80        TERMINFO  is  not set, and finally look in <EM>/usr/share/ter-</EM>
  81        <EM>minfo</EM>.
  82
  83        <STRONG>-1</STRONG>     restricts the output to a single column
  84
  85        <STRONG>-a</STRONG>     tells  <STRONG>tic</STRONG>  to  retain  commented-out  capabilities
  86               rather than discarding them.  Capabilities are com-
  87               mented by prefixing them with a period.  This  sets
  88               the  <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option, because it treats the commented-out
  89               entries as user-defined names.  If  the  source  is
  90               termcap,  accept  the 2-character names required by
  91               version 6.  Otherwise these are ignored.
  92
  93        <STRONG>-C</STRONG>     Force source translation to termcap format.   Note:
  94               this  differs  from the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> in
  95               that it does not merely translate capability names,
  96               but  also  translates  terminfo  strings to termcap
  97               format.  Capabilities that are not translatable are
  98               left  in  the  entry under their terminfo names but
  99               commented out with two preceding dots.
 100
 101        <STRONG>-c</STRONG>     tells <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to only check <EM>file</EM> for errors,  including
 102               syntax  problems and bad use links.  If you specify
 103               <STRONG>-C</STRONG> (<STRONG>-I</STRONG>) with this option, the code will print warn-
 104               ings about entries which, after use resolution, are
 105               more than 1023 (4096) bytes long.  Due to  a  fixed
 106               buffer  length  in  older  termcap libraries (and a
 107               documented limit in terminfo),  these  entries  may
 108               cause core dumps.
 109
 110        <STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>names</EM>
 111               Limit  writes  and  translations  to  the following
 112               comma-separated list of terminals.  If any name  or
 113               alias of a terminal matches one of the names in the
 114               list, the entry will be written  or  translated  as
 115               normal.   Otherwise no output will be generated for
 116               it.  The option value is interpreted as a file con-
 117               taining  the  list  if  it  contains a '/'.  (Note:
 118               depending on how tic was compiled, this option  may
 119               require <STRONG>-I</STRONG> or <STRONG>-C</STRONG>.)
 120
 121        <STRONG>-f</STRONG>     Display  complex  terminfo  strings  which  contain
 122               if/then/else/endif expressions indented  for  read-
 123               ability.
 124
 125        <STRONG>-G</STRONG>     Display  constant  literals  in decimal form rather
 126               than their character equivalents.
 127
 128        <STRONG>-g</STRONG>     Display constant character literals in quoted  form
 129               rather than their decimal equivalents.
 130
 131        <STRONG>-I</STRONG>     Force source translation to terminfo format.
 132
 133        <STRONG>-L</STRONG>     Force  source  translation to terminfo format using
 134               the long C variable names listed in &lt;<STRONG>term.h</STRONG>&gt;
 135
 136        <STRONG>-N</STRONG>     Disable smart defaults.  Normally, when translating
 137               from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a num-
 138               ber of assumptions about  the  defaults  of  string
 139               capabilities  <STRONG>reset1_string</STRONG>,  <STRONG>carriage_return</STRONG>, <STRONG>cur-</STRONG>
 140               <STRONG>sor_left</STRONG>, <STRONG>cursor_down</STRONG>,  <STRONG>scroll_forward</STRONG>,  <STRONG>tab</STRONG>,  <STRONG>new-</STRONG>
 141               <STRONG>line</STRONG>,  <STRONG>key_backspace</STRONG>,  <STRONG>key_left</STRONG>, and <STRONG>key_down</STRONG>, then
 142               attempts to use obsolete  termcap  capabilities  to
 143               deduce correct values.  It also normally suppresses
 144               output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as <STRONG>bs</STRONG>.
 145               This  option forces a more literal translation that
 146               also preserves the obsolete capabilities.
 147
 148        <STRONG>-o</STRONG><EM>dir</EM>  Write compiled entries to given  directory.   Over-
 149               rides the TERMINFO environment variable.
 150
 151        <STRONG>-R</STRONG><EM>subset</EM>
 152               Restrict  output to a given subset.  This option is
 153               for use with  archaic  versions  of  terminfo  like
 154               those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that do not support
 155               the full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and  out-
 156               right broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own
 157               extensions incompatible with  SVr4/XSI.   Available
 158               subsets  are  "SVr1",  "Ultrix",  "HP",  "BSD"  and
 159               "AIX"; see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> for details.
 160
 161        <STRONG>-r</STRONG>     Force entry resolution (so there are  no  remaining
 162               tc  capabilities)  even  when  doing translation to
 163               termcap format.  This may  be  needed  if  you  are
 164               preparing  a  termcap  file  for  a termcap library
 165               (such as GNU termcap through  version  1.3  or  BSD
 166               termcap through 4.3BSD) that does not handle multi-
 167               ple tc capabilities per entry.
 168
 169        <STRONG>-s</STRONG>     Summarize the compile by showing the directory into
 170               which  entries  are  written,  and  the  number  of
 171               entries which are compiled.
 172
 173        <STRONG>-T</STRONG>     eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text.
 174               This  is  mainly  useful  for testing and analysis,
 175               since the compiled descriptions are limited  (e.g.,
 176               1023 for termcap, 4096 for terminfo).
 177
 178        <STRONG>-t</STRONG>     tells  <STRONG>tic</STRONG>  to  discard commented-out capabilities.
 179               Normally when translating from terminfo to termcap,
 180               untranslatable capabilities are commented-out.
 181
 182        <STRONG>-U</STRONG>   tells  <STRONG>tic</STRONG> to not post-process the data after parsing
 183             the source file.  Normally, it infers data  which  is
 184             commonly  missing in older terminfo data, or in term-
 185             caps.
 186
 187        <STRONG>-V</STRONG>   reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
 188             program, and exits.
 189
 190        <STRONG>-v</STRONG><EM>n</EM>  specifies  that  (verbose) output be written to stan-
 191             dard error trace information showing <STRONG>tic</STRONG>'s  progress.
 192             The  optional  parameter  <EM>n</EM> is a number from 1 to 10,
 193             inclusive, indicating the desired level of detail  of
 194             information.   If  <EM>n</EM> is omitted, the default level is
 195             1.  If <EM>n</EM> is specified and greater than 1,  the  level
 196             of detail is increased.
 197
 198        <STRONG>-w</STRONG><EM>n</EM>  specifies  the width of the output.  The parameter is
 199             optional.  If it is omitted, it defaults to 60.
 200
 201        <STRONG>-x</STRONG>   Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined.  That is,
 202             if  you  supply  a capability name which <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does not
 203             recognize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or
 204             string)  from  the  syntax and make an extended table
 205             entry  for  that.   User-defined  capability  strings
 206             whose  name begins with ``k'' are treated as function
 207             keys.
 208
 209        <EM>file</EM> contains one or more <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  terminal  descriptions
 210             in source format [see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>].  Each description
 211             in the file describes the capabilities of a  particu-
 212             lar terminal.
 213
 214        The debug flag levels are as follows:
 215
 216        1      Names of files created and linked
 217
 218        2      Information related to the ``use'' facility
 219
 220        3      Statistics from the hashing algorithm
 221
 222        5      String-table memory allocations
 223
 224        7      Entries into the string-table
 225
 226        8      List of tokens encountered by scanner
 227
 228        9      All values computed in construction of the hash ta-
 229               ble
 230
 231        If the debug level <EM>n</EM> is not given, it is taken to be  one.
 232
 233        All but one of the capabilities recognized by <STRONG>tic</STRONG> are doc-
 234        umented in <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.  The exception is the <STRONG>use</STRONG> capabil-
 235        ity.
 236
 237        When  a  <STRONG>use</STRONG>=<EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM>  field is discovered in a terminal
 238        entry currently being compiled, <STRONG>tic</STRONG> reads  in  the  binary
 239        from  <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG> to complete the entry.  (Entries
 240        created from <EM>file</EM> will be used first.  If the  environment
 241        variable  <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>  is  set,  that  directory  is searched
 242        instead of <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>.)  <STRONG>tic</STRONG> duplicates the capa-
 243        bilities  in  <EM>entry</EM>-<EM>name</EM>  for  the current entry, with the
 244        exception  of  those  capabilities  that  explicitly   are
 245        defined in the current entry.
 246
 247        When    an   entry,   e.g.,   <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>,   contains   a
 248        <STRONG>use=</STRONG><EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM>  field,  any  canceled  capabilities   in
 249        <EM>entry</EM>_<EM>name</EM>_<EM>2</EM>  must also appear in <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG> before <STRONG>use=</STRONG>
 250        for these capabilities to be canceled in <STRONG>entry_name_1</STRONG>.
 251
 252        If the environment variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> is set, the  compiled
 253        results are placed there instead of <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo</STRONG>.
 254
 255        Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes.  The name
 256        field cannot exceed 512 bytes.  Terminal  names  exceeding
 257        the  maximum  alias  length (32 characters on systems with
 258        long filenames, 14 characters otherwise) will be truncated
 259        to  the maximum alias length and a warning message will be
 260        printed.
 261
 262
 263 </PRE>
 264 <H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
 265        There is some evidence that historic  <STRONG>tic</STRONG>  implementations
 266        treated  description  fields with no whitespace in them as
 267        additional aliases or short names.  This <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does  not  do
 268        that,  but  it  does  warn  when description fields may be
 269        treated that way and check them for dangerous  characters.
 270
 271
 272 </PRE>
 273 <H2>EXTENSIONS</H2><PRE>
 274        Unlike the stock SVr4 <STRONG>tic</STRONG> command, this implementation can
 275        actually compile termcap sources.   In  fact,  entries  in
 276        terminfo  and  termcap  syntax  can  be  mixed in a single
 277        source file.  See <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>  for  the  list  of  termcap
 278        names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.
 279
 280        The  SVr4  manual  pages  are  not clear on the resolution
 281        rules for <STRONG>use</STRONG> capabilities.  This  implementation  of  <STRONG>tic</STRONG>
 282        will find <STRONG>use</STRONG> targets anywhere in the source file, or any-
 283        where in the file tree rooted at <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> (if <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>  is
 284        defined),  or  in the user's <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> directory (if
 285        it exists), or (finally) anywhere  in  the  system's  file
 286        tree of compiled entries.
 287
 288        The  error  messages from this <STRONG>tic</STRONG> have the same format as
 289        GNU C error messages, and can be  parsed  by  GNU  Emacs's
 290        compile facility.
 291
 292        The  <STRONG>-C</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-G</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-I</STRONG>, <STRONG>-N</STRONG>, <STRONG>-R</STRONG>, <STRONG>-T</STRONG>, <STRONG>-V</STRONG>, <STRONG>-a</STRONG>, <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-f</STRONG>, <STRONG>-g</STRONG>, <STRONG>-o</STRONG>, <STRONG>-r</STRONG>,
 293        <STRONG>-s</STRONG>, <STRONG>-t</STRONG> and <STRONG>-x</STRONG> options are not supported under  SVr4.   The
 294        SVr4 <STRONG>-c</STRONG> mode does not report bad use links.
 295
 296        System  V does not compile entries to or read entries from
 297        your <EM>$HOME/.terminfo</EM> directory unless TERMINFO is  explic-
 298        itly set to it.
 299
 300
 301 </PRE>
 302 <H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
 303        <STRONG>/usr/share/terminfo/?/*</STRONG>
 304             Compiled terminal description database.
 305
 306
 307 </PRE>
 308 <H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
 309        <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>,    <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>,   <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>,   <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>,
 310        <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
 311
 312        This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
 313
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 316 <H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
 317        Eric S. Raymond &lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt; and
 318        Thomas E. Dickey &lt;dickey@invisible-island.net&gt;
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 322                                                                 <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>
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