TIC(1) BSD General Commands Manual TIC(1)
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:
tic ~/.terminfo
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>
BSD
June 3, 2012 BSD
