Linux Application Development

Michael K. Johnson Erik W. Troan

The Termcap Manual

The Termcap Library and Data Base

Second Edition

December 1992

• Introduction
• The Termcap Library
  • Preparing to Use the Termcap Library
  • Finding a Terminal Description: tgetent
  • Interrogating the Terminal Description
  • Initialization for Use of Termcap
  • Padding
    • Why Pad, and How
    • When There Is Not Enough Padding
    • Specifying Padding in a Terminal Description
    • Performing Padding with tputs
  • Filling In Parameters
    • Describing the Encoding
    • Sending Display Commands with Parameters
      • tparam
      • tgoto
• The Format of the Data Base
  • Terminal Description Format
  • Writing the Capabilities
  • Terminal Type Name Conventions
  • Inheriting from Related Descriptions
  • When Changes in the Data Base Take Effect
• Definitions of the Terminal Capabilities
  • Basic Characteristics
  • Screen Size
  • Cursor Motion
  • Wrapping
  • Scrolling
  • Windows
  • Clearing Parts of the Screen
  • Insert/Delete Line
  • Insert/Delete Character
  • Standout and Appearance Modes
  • Underlining
  • Cursor Visibility
  • Bell
  • Keypad and Function Keys
  • Meta Key
  • Initialization
  • Padding Capabilities
  • Status Line
  • Half-Line Motion
  • Controlling Printers Attached to Terminals
• Summary of Capability Names
• Variable and Function Index
• Capability Index
• Concept Index

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