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author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000 |
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committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000 |
commit | 53ad30a63b4d5f80f713963835dee995f9546071 (patch) | |
tree | f304bfa899e693aa1f7de368f8e49ffe46477334 /appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml | |
parent | eb33fb1cad428658dafc39e87d0c57ae479def5f (diff) |
[Bug 190] Put descs in alphabetical order
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1249 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml b/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml index 2824c6a10..9e8b99ac2 100644 --- a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <title>Contents</title> <para>The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form -libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toe and tset +libraries. It also contains the clear, infocmp, tic, toe, tput and tset programs.</para> </sect2> @@ -10,69 +10,43 @@ programs.</para> <sect2><title>Description</title> <sect3><title>The libraries</title> - <para>The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text (often in a fancy way) on the screen. An example where ncurses is used is in the kernel's <quote>make menuconfig</quote> process. The libraries contain routines to create panels, menu's, form and general text display -routines.</para> +routines.</para></sect3> + +<sect3><title>clear</title> +<para>The clear program clears the screen if this is possible. It looks in +the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database +to figure out how to clear the screen.</para></sect3> -</sect3> +<sect3><title>Infocmp</title> +<para>The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with +other terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to +take advantage of the use= terminfo field, or print out a +terminfo description from the binary file (term) in a variety of +formats (the opposite of what tic does).</para></sect3> <sect3><title>Tic</title> - <para>Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a terminfo file from source format into the binary format for use with the ncurses library routines. Terminfo files contain information about the -capabilities of a terminal.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>Infocmp</title> - -<para>The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with -other -terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of -the -use= terminfo field, or print out a terminfo description from the -binary -file (term) in a variety of formats (the opposite of what tic does).</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>clear</title> - -<para>The clear program clears the screen if this is possible. It looks in -the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database -to -figure out how to clear the screen.</para> +capabilities of a terminal.</para></sect3> -</sect3> +<sect3><title>toe</title> +<para>The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with +descriptions.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>tput</title> - <para>The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell, -to -initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the -requested -terminal type.</para> - -</sect3> - -<sect3><title>toe</title> - -<para>The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with -descriptions.</para> - -</sect3> +to initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the +requested terminal type.</para></sect3> <sect3><title>tset</title> - <para>The Tset program initializes terminals so they can be used, but it's not -widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.</para> - -</sect3> +widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.</para></sect3> </sect2> |