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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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| [b822811] | 4 | <para>The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form
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| [6370fa6] | 5 | libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toe and tset
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| [b822811] | 6 | programs.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 7 |
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| 8 | </sect2>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <sect3><title>The libraries</title>
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| 13 |
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| [b822811] | 14 | <para>The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text
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| [7d90bd3] | 15 | (often in a fancy way) on the screen. An example where ncurses is used
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| [6370fa6] | 16 | is in the kernel's <quote>make menuconfig</quote> process. The libraries
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| 17 | contain routines to create panels, menu's, form and general text display
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| [b822811] | 18 | routines.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 19 |
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| 20 | </sect3>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect3><title>Tic</title>
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| 23 |
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| [b822811] | 24 | <para>Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a
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| [6370fa6] | 25 | terminfo file from source format into the binary format for use with the
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| 26 | ncurses library routines. Terminfo files contain information about the
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| [b822811] | 27 | capabilities of a terminal.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 28 |
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| 29 | </sect3>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect3><title>Infocmp</title>
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| 32 |
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| [b822811] | 33 | <para>The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with
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| [6370fa6] | 34 | other
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| 35 | terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of
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| 36 | the
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| 37 | use= terminfo field, or print out a terminfo description from the
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| 38 | binary
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| [b822811] | 39 | file (term) in a variety of formats (the opposite of what tic does).</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 40 |
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| 41 | </sect3>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect3><title>clear</title>
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| 44 |
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| [b822811] | 45 | <para>The clear program clears the screen if this is possible. It looks in
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| [6370fa6] | 46 | the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database
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| 47 | to
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| [b822811] | 48 | figure out how to clear the screen.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 49 |
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| 50 | </sect3>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <sect3><title>tput</title>
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| 53 |
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| [b822811] | 54 | <para>The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of
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| [6370fa6] | 55 | terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell,
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| 56 | to
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| 57 | initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the
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| 58 | requested
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| [b822811] | 59 | terminal type.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 60 |
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| 61 | </sect3>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <sect3><title>toe</title>
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| 64 |
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| [b822811] | 65 | <para>The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with
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| 66 | descriptions.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 67 |
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| 68 | </sect3>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <sect3><title>tset</title>
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| 71 |
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| [b822811] | 72 | <para>The Tset program initializes terminals so they can be used, but it's not
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| 73 | widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 74 |
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| 75 | </sect3>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | </sect2>
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| 78 |
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