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tic(1)		    UNIX Programmer's Manual		   tic(1)

NAME
     tic - the terminfo entry-description compiler

SYNOPSIS
     tic [-1CGILNTVacfgrstx] [-e names] [-o dir] [-R subset] [-
     v[n]] [-w[n]] file

DESCRIPTION
     The command tic translates a terminfo file from source for-
     mat into compiled format.	The compiled format is necessary
     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/terminfo.

     -1	  restricts the output to a single column

     -a	  tells tic to retain commented-out capabilities rather
	  than discarding them.	 Capabilities are commented by
	  prefixing them with a period. This sets the -x option,
	  because it treats the commented-out entries as user-
	  defined names. If the source is termcap, accept the 2-
	  character names required by version 6. Otherwise these
	  are ignored.

     -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.  Capa-
	  bilities that are not translatable are left in the
	  entry under their terminfo names but commented out with
	  two preceding dots.

     -c	  tells tic to only check file for errors, including syn-
	  tax problems and bad use links.  If you specify -C (-I)
	  with this option, the code will print warnings about
	  entries which, after use resolution, are more than 1023

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	  (4096) bytes long.  Due to a fixed buffer length in
	  older termcap libraries (and a documented limit in ter-
	  minfo), these entries may cause core dumps.

     -e names
	  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 list, the
	  entry will be written or translated as normal. Other-
	  wise no output will be generated for it. The option
	  value is interpreted as a file containing the list if
	  it contains a '/'. (Note: depending on how tic was com-
	  piled, this option may require -I or -C.)

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

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

     -g	  Display constant character literals in quoted form
	  rather than their decimal 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 number of
	  assumptions about the defaults of string capabilities
	  reset1_string, carriage_return, cursor_left,
	  cursor_down, scroll_forward, tab, newline,
	  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.

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

     -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 do not support the full set
	  of SVR4/XSI Curses terminfo; and outright broken ports
	  like AIX 3.x that have their own extensions incompati-
	  ble with SVr4/XSI.  Available subsets are "SVr1",

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	  "Ultrix", "HP", "BSD" and "AIX"; see terminfo(5) for
	  details.

     -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
	  through version 1.3 or BSD termcap through 4.3BSD) that
	  does not handle multiple tc capabilities per entry.

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

     -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).

     -t	  tells tic to discard commented-out capabilities. Nor-
	  mally when translating from terminfo to termcap,
	  untranslatable capabilities are commented-out.

     -V	  reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
	  program, and exits.

     -vn  specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard
	  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.

     -wn  specifies the width of the output.

     -x	  Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined. That is, if
	  you supply a capability name which tic does not recog-
	  nize, it will infer its type (boolean, number or
	  string) from the syntax and make an extended table
	  entry for that. User-defined capability strings whose
	  name begins with ``k'' are treated as function keys.

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

     The debug flag levels are as follows:

     1	  Names of files created and linked

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     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 the debug level n is not given, it is taken to be one.

     All but one of the capabilities recognized by tic are docu-
     mented in terminfo(5).  The exception is the use capability.

     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 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 ter-
     minfo and termcap syntax can be mixed in a single source

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     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 anywhere 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 -C, -G, -I, -N, -R, -T, -V, -a, -e, -f, -g, -o, -r, -s,
     -t 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 explicitly
     set to it.

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

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

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