156 lines
3.8 KiB
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156 lines
3.8 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: termcap.3,v 1.9 2017/10/22 16:44:51 abhinav Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 2009 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Roy Marples.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd March 14, 2011
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.Dt TERMCAP 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm tgetent ,
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.Nm tgetnum ,
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.Nm tgetflag ,
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.Nm tgetstr ,
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.Nm tgoto
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.Nd terminal independent operation routines
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libtermcap
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In termcap.h
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.Vt char PC ;
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.Vt char *BC ;
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.Vt char *UP ;
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.Ft int
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.Fn tgetent "char *bp" "const char *name"
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.Ft int
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.Fn tgetnum "const char *id"
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.Ft int
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.Fn tgetflag "const char *id"
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.Ft char *
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.Fn tgetstr "const char *id" "char **area"
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.Ft char *
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.Fn tgoto "const char *cm" "int destcol" "int destline"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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These functions extract and use capabilities from a terminal capability
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database.
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They exist as wrappers around equivalent
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.Xr terminfo 3
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functions, which new code should use.
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These are low level routines; see
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.Xr curses 3
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for a higher level package.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn tgetent
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function calls
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.Fn setupterm
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and configures
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.Va PC ,
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.Va UP
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and
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.Va BC .
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Only
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.Va PC
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is actually used internally.
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The
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.Fn tgetent
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function returns \-1 if none of the
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.Nm terminfo
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data base files could be opened,
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0 if the terminal name given does not match an entry,
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and 1 if all goes well.
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The
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.Fa bp
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argument is not used.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn tgetnum
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function gets the numeric value of the capability
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.Fa id ,
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returning \-1 if it is not given for the terminal.
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The
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.Fn tgetflag
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function returns 1 if the specified capability is present in the terminal's
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entry, 0 if it is not.
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The
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.Fn tgetstr
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function returns the string value of the capability
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.Fa id .
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This is a
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.Xr terminfo 5
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string and not a
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.Nm termcap
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string;
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as such it should only be processed by
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.Fn tgoto .
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The
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.Fn tgetstr
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function returns
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.Dv NULL
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if the capability was not found.
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The
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.Fa area
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argument is unused.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn tgoto
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function returns a cursor addressing string decoded from
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.Fa cm
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to go to column
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.Fa destcol
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in line
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.Fa destline ,
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or
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.Dv NULL
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on error conditions such as out of memory.
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Please note that
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.Fn tgoto
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can return an incomplete value on a malformed input sequence.
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Historically
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.Fn tgoto
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used to return
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.Dq OOPS
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on those conditions, so newer programs should now be checking the return
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value.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr terminfo 3 ,
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.Xr terminfo 5
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm termcap
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first appeared in 4.0BSD.
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.Nx 1.5
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introduced some
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.Nm termcap
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.Fn t_*
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extensions which were removed in
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.Nx 6.0
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when
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.Xr terminfo 3
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was introduced.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Roy Marples Aq Mt roy@NetBSD.org
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