Changeset 53ad30a for appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml
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reb33fb1 r53ad30a 3 3 4 4 <para>The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form 5 libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toeand tset5 libraries. It also contains the clear, infocmp, tic, toe, tput and tset 6 6 programs.</para> 7 7 … … 11 11 12 12 <sect3><title>The libraries</title> 13 14 13 <para>The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text 15 14 (often in a fancy way) on the screen. An example where ncurses is used 16 15 is in the kernel's <quote>make menuconfig</quote> process. The libraries 17 16 contain routines to create panels, menu's, form and general text display 18 routines.</para> 17 routines.</para></sect3> 19 18 20 </sect3> 19 <sect3><title>clear</title> 20 <para>The clear program clears the screen if this is possible. It looks in 21 the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database 22 to figure out how to clear the screen.</para></sect3> 23 24 <sect3><title>Infocmp</title> 25 <para>The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with 26 other terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to 27 take advantage of the use= terminfo field, or print out a 28 terminfo description from the binary file (term) in a variety of 29 formats (the opposite of what tic does).</para></sect3> 21 30 22 31 <sect3><title>Tic</title> 23 24 32 <para>Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a 25 33 terminfo file from source format into the binary format for use with the 26 34 ncurses library routines. Terminfo files contain information about the 27 capabilities of a terminal.</para> 35 capabilities of a terminal.</para></sect3> 28 36 29 </sect3> 30 31 <sect3><title>Infocmp</title> 32 33 <para>The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with 34 other 35 terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of 36 the 37 use= terminfo field, or print out a terminfo description from the 38 binary 39 file (term) in a variety of formats (the opposite of what tic does).</para> 40 41 </sect3> 42 43 <sect3><title>clear</title> 44 45 <para>The clear program clears the screen if this is possible. It looks in 46 the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database 47 to 48 figure out how to clear the screen.</para> 49 50 </sect3> 37 <sect3><title>toe</title> 38 <para>The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with 39 descriptions.</para></sect3> 51 40 52 41 <sect3><title>tput</title> 53 54 42 <para>The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of 55 43 terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell, 56 to 57 initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the 58 requested 59 terminal type.</para> 60 61 </sect3> 62 63 <sect3><title>toe</title> 64 65 <para>The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with 66 descriptions.</para> 67 68 </sect3> 44 to initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the 45 requested terminal type.</para></sect3> 69 46 70 47 <sect3><title>tset</title> 71 72 48 <para>The Tset program initializes terminals so they can be used, but it's not 73 widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.</para> 74 75 </sect3> 49 widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.</para></sect3> 76 50 77 51 </sect2>
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