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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000
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<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>