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author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
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committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml b/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml index a8e2c3b9a..2824c6a10 100644 --- a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml @@ -1,11 +1,9 @@ <sect2> <title>Contents</title> -<para> -The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form +<para>The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toe and tset -programs. -</para> +programs.</para> </sect2> @@ -13,80 +11,66 @@ programs. <sect3><title>The libraries</title> -<para> -The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text +<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>Tic</title> -<para> -Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a +<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> +capabilities of a terminal.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>Infocmp</title> -<para> -The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with +<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> +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 +<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> +figure out how to clear the screen.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>tput</title> -<para> -The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of +<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> +terminal type.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>toe</title> -<para> -The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with -descriptions. -</para> +<para>The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with +descriptions.</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> +<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> |