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- <sect2>
- <title>Contents</title>
- <para>The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form
- libraries. It also contains the clear, infocmp, tic, toe, tput and tset
- programs.</para>
- </sect2>
- <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></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><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>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>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>
- </sect2>
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