tic |
[-acSsx ] [-o
file] source
[term1 term2 ...] |
The tic
utility compiles
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.
The following options are available:
-a
- Do not discard commented out capabilities.
-c
- Only check for errors, don't write the final database.
-o
file
- Write the database to file instead of
source.cdb.
-S
- For term1, term2,
... output a C structure containing name, compiled
description, and compiled size. This can be used to embed terminal
descriptions into a program.
-s
- Display the number of terminal descriptions written to the database.
-x
- Include non standard capabilities defined in the
source.
When tic
discovers a
use=term capability, the terminal
description for 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
used terminals.
The tic
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
To maintain your private terminfo definitions, if the system supplied ones do
not support your terminal:
The tic
utility works with terminfo files that conform
to the X/Open Curses Issue 4, Version 2
(“XCURSES4.2”) standard.