The Termcap Manual

The Termcap Library and Data Base

Second Edition

December 1992

• Introduction
• 1. The Termcap Library
  • 1.1 Preparing to Use the Termcap Library
  • 1.2 Finding a Terminal Description: tgetent
  • 1.3 Interrogating the Terminal Description
  • 1.4 Initialization for Use of Termcap
  • 1.5 Padding
    • 1.5.1 Why Pad, and How
    • 1.5.2 When There Is Not Enough Padding
    • 1.5.3 Specifying Padding in a Terminal Description
    • 1.5.4 Performing Padding with tputs
  • 1.6 Filling In Parameters
    • 1.6.1 Describing the Encoding
    • 1.6.2 Sending Display Commands with Parameters
      • 1.6.2.1 tparam
      • 1.6.2.2 tgoto
• 2. The Format of the Data Base
  • 2.1 Terminal Description Format
  • 2.2 Writing the Capabilities
  • 2.3 Terminal Type Name Conventions
  • 2.4 Inheriting from Related Descriptions
  • 2.5 When Changes in the Data Base Take Effect
• 3. Definitions of the Terminal Capabilities
  • 3.1 Basic Characteristics
  • 3.2 Screen Size
  • 3.3 Cursor Motion
  • 3.4 Wrapping
  • 3.5 Scrolling
  • 3.6 Windows
  • 3.7 Clearing Parts of the Screen
  • 3.8 Insert/Delete Line
  • 3.9 Insert/Delete Character
  • 3.10 Standout and Appearance Modes
  • 3.11 Underlining
  • 3.12 Cursor Visibility
  • 3.13 Bell
  • 3.14 Keypad and Function Keys
  • 3.15 Meta Key
  • 3.16 Initialization
  • 3.17 Padding Capabilities
  • 3.18 Status Line
  • 3.19 Half-Line Motion
  • 3.20 Controlling Printers Attached to Terminals
• 4. Summary of Capability Names
• Variable and Function Index
• Capability Index
• Concept Index

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