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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-09-22 16:09:47 +0000
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<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>