setupterm(3cur)setupterm(3cur)Namesetupterm - perform low level terminal setup
Syntax
setupterm(term, filenum, errret)
char *term;
int filenum;
int *errret;
Description
This function sets up the terminal from the database. The parameter is
the terminal type. If this parameter is set to then the environment
variable will be used. The parameter is an ULTRIX file descriptor, not
a pointer. It is used for all the output generated by
The boolean, numeric and string values are stored in a structure of
type
After returns successfully the variable is initialized. This variable
points to the structure. The pointer can be saved before calling again
as further calls to allocate new space; the space pointed to by is not
overwritten.
See Alsorestartterm(3cur)setupterm(3cur)