Sortix nightly manual
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NAME
tic — terminfo compilerSYNOPSIS
| tic | [-acSsx] [-o file] source [term1 term2 ...] |
DESCRIPTION
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.- -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.
Extensions To Terminfo
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.EXIT STATUS
The tic utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.EXAMPLES
To maintain your private terminfo definitions, if the system supplied ones do not support your terminal:tic ~/.terminfo