TIC(1) BSD General Commands Manual TIC(1)NAMEtic — terminfo compiler
SYNOPSIStic [-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 .db 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.db instead of source.db.
-S For term1, term2, ... output a C structure containing name,
compiled description, and compiled size. This can be used to
embed terminal descriptons into a program.
-s Display the number of terminal descritions 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:
tic ~/.terminfo
SEE ALSOinfocmp(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⟩
BSD February 11, 2010 BSD
