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<title>Contents</title>
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<para>
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The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form
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libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toe and tset
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programs.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Description</title>
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<sect3><title>The libraries</title>
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<para>
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The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text
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(often in a fancy way) on your screen. An example where ncurses is used
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is in the kernel's <quote>make menuconfig</quote> process. The libraries
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contain routines to create panels, menu's, form and general text display
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routines.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>Tic</title>
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<para>
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Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a
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terminfo file from source format into the binary format for use with the
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ncurses library routines. Terminfo files contain information about the
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capabilities of your terminal.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>Infocmp</title>
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<para>
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The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with
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other
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terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of
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the
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use= terminfo field, or print out a terminfo description from the
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binary
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file (term) in a variety of formats (the opposite of what tic does).
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>clear</title>
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<para>
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The clear program clears your screen if this is possible. It looks in
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the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database
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to
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figure out how to clear the screen.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>tput</title>
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<para>
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The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of
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terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell,
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to
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initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the
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requested
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terminal type.
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</para>
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<sect3><title>toe</title>
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<para>
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The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with
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descriptions.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>tset</title>
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<para>
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The Tset program initializes terminals so they can be used, but it's not
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widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.
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</para>
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