NAME

tic — terminfo compiler

SYNOPSIS

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. 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.

Extensions To Terminfo

When tic discovers a use=term capability, the terminal description for term is merged in. Capabilities do not overwrite previously disovered 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:

SEE ALSO

infocmp(1), tput(1), curses(3), terminfo(5)

STANDARDS

The tic utility works with terminfo files that conform to the X/Open Curses Issue 4, Version 2 (“XCURSES4.2”) standard.

AUTHORS

Roy Marples <roy@NetBSD.org>