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.Dd June 3, 2012 .Dt TIC 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm tic .Nd terminfo compiler .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm tic .Op Fl acSsx .Op Fl o Ar file .Ar source .Op Ar term1 term2 ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility compiles .Xr 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.
p The following options are available: l -tag -width Fl t Fl a Do not discard commented out capabilities. t Fl c Only check for errors, don't write the final database. t Fl o Ar file Write the database to .Ar file instead of .Ar source Ns .cdb . t Fl S For .Ar term1 , term2 , ... output a C structure containing name, compiled description, and compiled size. This can be used to embed terminal descriptions into a program. t Fl s Display the number of terminal descriptions written to the database. t Fl x Include non standard capabilities defined in the .Ar source . .El .Ss Extensions To Terminfo When .Nm discovers a .Sy use Ns = Ns Va term capability, the terminal description for .Va term is merged in. Capabilities do not overwrite previously discovered ones and capabilities ending with @ are marked as absent so the terminal does not inherit the capability from .Sy use Ns d terminals. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std tic .Sh EXAMPLES To maintain your private terminfo definitions, if the system supplied ones do not support your terminal: d -literal -offset indent c tic ~/.terminfo .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr infocmp 1 , .Xr tput 1 , .Xr curses 3 , .Xr terminfo 5 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm utility works with terminfo files that conform to the .St -xcurses4.2 standard. .Sh AUTHORS .An Roy Marples Aq Mt roy@NetBSD.org