Update man page to document new tgetent behaviour.

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.\" $NetBSD: termcap.3,v 1.17 2000/04/19 13:41:28 blymn Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: termcap.3,v 1.18 2000/05/10 11:13:35 blymn Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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It will look in the environment for a
.Ev TERMCAP
variable.
If found, and the value does not begin with a slash,
If found, and the value does not begin with a slash, the value does
not contain the ZZ capability (see
.Em NOTES
for a description of this capability),
and the terminal type
.Fa name
is the same as the environment string
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.Ev TERMCAP
string is used instead of reading a
.Nm termcap
file.
If it does begin with a slash, the string is used as a path name
file. If the value does contain the ZZ capability then the
.Ev TERM
environment string is used to read
.Nm termcap ,
if the read fails for any reason the value of
.Ev TERMCAP
will be used despite it containing ZZ.
If
.Ev TERMCAP
does begin with a slash, the string is used as a path name
of the
.Nm termcap
file to search.