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tic(1)							   tic(1)

NAME
       tic - the terminfo entry-description compiler

SYNOPSIS
       tic  [-1CINRTcfrsx]  [-e	 names]	 [-o dir] [-v[n]] [-w[n]]
       file

DESCRIPTION
       The command tic translates a  terminfo  file  from  source
       format  into compiled format.  The compiled format is nec-
       essary for use with the library routines in ncurses(3).

       The results are normally placed	in  the	 system	 terminfo
       directory  /usr/share/terminfo.	 There	are  two  ways to
       change this behavior.

       First, you may override the system default by setting  the
       variable	 TERMINFO  in  your  shell environment to a valid
       (existing) directory name.

       Secondly, if tic cannot get access to  /usr/share/terminfo
       or  your	 TERMINFO  directory,  it looks for the directory
       $HOME/.terminfo; if that directory exists,  the	entry  is
       placed there.

       Libraries that read terminfo entries are expected to check
       for a TERMINFO directory first, look at $HOME/.terminfo if
       TERMINFO	 is  not set, and finally look in /usr/share/ter-
       minfo.

       -c     specifies to only check file for errors,	including
	      syntax  problems and bad use links.  If you specify
	      -C (-I) with this option, the code will print warn-
	      ings about entries which, after use resolution, are
	      more than 1023 (4096) bytes long.	 Due to	 a  fixed
	      buffer  length  in  older	 termcap libraries (and a
	      documented limit in terminfo),  these  entries  may
	      cause core dumps.

       -vn    specifies that (verbose) output be written to stan-
	      dard  error   trace   information	  showing   tic's
	      progress.	  The optional integer n is a number from
	      1 to 10, inclusive, indicating the desired level of
	      detail  of  information.	 If  n	is  omitted,  the
	      default level is 1.  If n is specified and  greater
	      than 1, the level of detail is increased.

       -odir  Write  compiled  entries to given directory.  Over-
	      rides the TERMINFO environment variable.

       -wn    specifies the width of the output.

       -1     restricts the output to a single column

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       -C     Force source translation to termcap format.   Note:
	      this  differs  from  the -C option of infocmp(1) in
	      that it does not merely translate capability names,
	      but  also	 translates  terminfo  strings to termcap
	      format.  Capabilities that are not translatable are
	      left  in	the  entry under their terminfo names but
	      commented out with two preceding dots.

       -G     Display constant literals in  decimal  form  rather
	      than their character equivalents.

       -I     Force source translation to terminfo format.

       -L     Force  source  translation to terminfo format using
	      the long C variable names listed in <term.h>

       -N     Disable smart defaults.  Normally, when translating
	      from termcap to terminfo, the compiler makes a num-
	      ber of assumptions about	the  defaults  of  string
	      capabilities  reset1_string,  carriage_return, cur-
	      sor_left, cursor_down,  scroll_forward,  tab,  new-
	      line,  key_backspace,  key_left, and key_down, then
	      attempts to use obsolete	termcap	 capabilities  to
	      deduce correct values.  It also normally suppresses
	      output of obsolete termcap capabilities such as bs.
	      This  option forces a more literal translation that
	      also preserves the obsolete capabilities.

       -Rsubset
	      Restrict output to a given subset.  This option  is
	      for  use	with  archaic  versions	 of terminfo like
	      those on SVr1, Ultrix, or HP/UX that don't  support
	      the  full set of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and out-
	      right broken ports like AIX 3.x that have their own
	      extensions  incompatible	with SVr4/XSI.	Available
	      subsets  are  "SVr1",  "Ultrix",	"HP",  "BSD"  and
	      "AIX"; see terminfo(5) for details.

       -T     eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text.
	      This is mainly useful  for  testing  and	analysis,
	      since  the compiled descriptions are limited (e.g.,
	      1023 for termcap, 4096 for terminfo).

       -r     Force entry resolution (so there are  no	remaining
	      tc  capabilities)	 even  when  doing translation to
	      termcap format.  This may	 be  needed  if	 you  are
	      preparing	 a  termcap  file  for	a termcap library
	      (such as GNU termcap up to version 1.3 or BSD term-
	      cap  up  to 4.3BSD) that doesn't handle multiple tc
	      capabilities per entry.

       -e     Limit writes  and	 translations  to  the	following
	      comma-separated  list of terminals.  If any name or
	      alias of a terminal matches one of the names in the

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	      list,  the  entry	 will be written or translated as
	      normal.  Otherwise no output will be generated  for
	      it.  The option value is interpreted as a file con-
	      taining the list if  it  contains	 a  '/'.   (Note:
	      depending	 on how tic was compiled, this option may
	      require -I or -C.)

       -f     Display  complex	terminfo  strings  which  contain
	      if/then/else/endif  expressions  indented for read-
	      ability.

       -g     Display constant character literals in quoted  form
	      rather than their decimal equivalents.

       -s     Summarize the compile by showing the directory into
	      which  entries  are  written,  and  the  number  of
	      entries which are compiled.

       -x     Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined.

       file   contains one or more terminfo terminal descriptions
	      in source format [see terminfo(5)].  Each	 descrip-
	      tion  in	the  file describes the capabilities of a
	      particular terminal.

       The debug flag levels are as follows:

       1      Names of files created and linked

       2      Information related to the ``use'' facility

       3      Statistics from the hashing algorithm

       5      String-table memory allocations

       7      Entries into the string-table

       8      List of tokens encountered by scanner

       9      All values computed in  construction  of	the  hash
	      table

       If n is not given, it is taken to be one.

       All but one of the capabilities recognized by tic are doc-
       umented in terminfo(5).	The exception is the use capabil-
       ity.

       When  a	use=entry-name	field is discovered in a terminal
       entry currently being compiled, tic reads  in  the  binary
       from  /usr/share/terminfo to complete the entry.	 (Entries
       created from file will be used first.  If the  environment
       variable	 TERMINFO  is  set,  that  directory  is searched
       instead	of  /usr/share/terminfo.)   tic	 duplicates   the

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       capabilities in entry-name for the current entry, with the
       exception  of  those  capabilities  that	 explicitly   are
       defined in the current entry.

       When    an   entry,   e.g.,   entry_name_1,   contains	a
       use=entry_name_2	 field,	 any  canceled	capabilities   in
       entry_name_2  must also appear in entry_name_1 before use=
       for these capabilities to be canceled in entry_name_1.

       If the environment variable TERMINFO is set, the	 compiled
       results are placed there instead of /usr/share/terminfo.

       Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes.	 The name
       field cannot exceed 512 bytes.  Terminal	 names	exceeding
       the  maximum  alias  length (32 characters on systems with
       long filenames, 14 characters otherwise) will be truncated
       to  the maximum alias length and a warning message will be
       printed.

COMPATIBILITY
       There is some evidence that historic  tic  implementations
       treated	description  fields with no whitespace in them as
       additional aliases or short names.  This tic does  not  do
       that,  but  it  does  warn  when description fields may be
       treated that way and check them for dangerous  characters.

EXTENSIONS
       Unlike the stock SVr4 tic command, this implementation can
       actually compile termcap sources.   In  fact,  entries  in
       terminfo	 and  termcap  syntax  can  be	mixed in a single
       source file.  See terminfo(5)  for  the	list  of  termcap
       names taken to be equivalent to terminfo names.

       The  SVr4  manual  pages	 are  not clear on the resolution
       rules for use capabilities.  This  implementation  of  tic
       will find use targets anywhere in the source file, or any-
       where in the file tree rooted at TERMINFO (if TERMINFO  is
       defined),  or  in the user's $HOME/.terminfo directory (if
       it exists), or (finally) anywhere  in  the  system's  file
       tree of compiled entries.

       The  error  messages from this tic have the same format as
       GNU C error messages, and can be	 parsed	 by  GNU  Emacs's
       compile facility.

       The  -o, -G, -I, -C, -N, -R, -e, -f, -g, -T, -r, -s and -x
       options are not supported under SVr4.  The  SVr4	 -c  mode
       does not report bad use links.

       System  V does not compile entries to or read entries from
       your $HOME/.terminfo directory unless TERMINFO is  explic-
       itly set to it.

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FILES
       /usr/share/terminfo/?/*
	    Compiled terminal description database.

SEE ALSO
       infocmp(1),    captoinfo(1M),	infotocap(1M),	 toe(1M),
       curses(3), terminfo(5).

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