toe(1m) - f31

1toe(1M)                                                                toe(1M)
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NAME

6       toe - table of (terminfo) entries
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SYNOPSIS

9       toe [-v[n]] [-ahsuUV] file...
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DESCRIPTION

12       With no options, toe lists all available terminal types by primary name
13       with descriptions.   File  arguments  specify  the  directories  to  be
14       scanned;  if  no such arguments are given, your default terminfo direc‐
15       tory is scanned.  If you also specify the -h option, a directory header
16       will be issued as each directory is entered.
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18       There are other options intended for use by terminfo file maintainers:
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20       -a     report  on  all  of  the  terminal databases which ncurses would
21              search, rather than only the first one that it finds.
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23              If the -s is also given, toe adds a column to the report,  show‐
24              ing  (like  conflict(1))  which  entries which belong to a given
25              terminal database.  An "*" marks entries which differ,  and  "+"
26              marks equivalent entries.
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28              Without  the -s option, toe does not attempt to merge duplicates
29              in its report
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31       -s     sort the output by the entry names.
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33       -u file
34              says to write a report to the standard output, listing dependen‐
35              cies in the given terminfo/termcap source file.  The report con‐
36              denses the “use” relation: each line  consists  of  the  primary
37              name  of  a  terminal  that  has use capabilities, followed by a
38              colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names of all
39              terminals  which  occur in those use capabilities, followed by a
40              newline
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42       -U file
43              says to write a report to the standard output,  listing  reverse
44              dependencies  in  the  given  terminfo/termcap source file.  The
45              report reverses the “use” relation: each line  consists  of  the
46              primary name of a terminal that occurs in use capabilities, fol‐
47              lowed by a colon, followed by the  whitespace-separated  primary
48              names  of  all  terminals which depend on it, followed by a new‐
49              line.
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51       -vn    specifies that (verbose) output be written  to  standard  error,
52              showing toe's progress.
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54              The  optional  parameter n is a number from 1 to 10, interpreted
55              as for tic(1M).  If ncurses is built  without  tracing  support,
56              the optional parameter is ignored.
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58       -V     reports  the  version of ncurses which was used in this program,
59              and exits.
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EXAMPLES

62       Without sorting, the -a option reports all of the names found in all of
63       the terminal databases found by the TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS environ‐
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66           MtxOrb162      16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
67           MtxOrb204      20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
68           MtxOrb         Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
69           qvt101+        qume qvt 101 PLUS product
70           qvt119+-25     QVT 119 PLUS with 25 data lines
71           qansi-g        QNX ANSI
72           qvt103         qume qvt 103
73           qnxw           QNX4 windows
74           qansi-w        QNX ansi for windows
75           qnxm           QNX4 with mouse events
76           qvt203-25-w    QVT 203 PLUS with 25 by 132 columns
77           qansi-t        QNX ansi without console writes
78           . . .
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80       Use the -a and -s options together to show where each terminal descrip‐
81       tion was found:
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83           --> /usr/local/ncurses/share/terminfo
84           ----> /usr/share/terminfo
85           *-+-:     9term          Plan9 terminal emulator for X
86           *---:     Eterm          Eterm with xterm-style color support (X Window System)
87           *-*-:     Eterm-256color Eterm with xterm 256-colors
88           *-*-:     Eterm-88color  Eterm with 88 colors
89           *-+-:     MtxOrb         Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
90           *-+-:     MtxOrb162      16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
91           *-+-:     MtxOrb204      20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
92           *-*-:     NCR260VT300WPP NCR 2900_260 vt300 wide mode pc+  kybd
93           *-+-:     aaa            ann arbor ambassador/30 lines
94           *-+-:     aaa+dec        ann arbor ambassador in dec vt100 mode
95           *-+-:     aaa+rv         ann arbor ambassador in reverse video
96           . . .
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FILES

99       /usr/share/terminfo/?/*
100            Compiled terminal description database.
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HISTORY

103       This  utility  is  not  provided by other implementations.  There is no
104       relevant X/Open or POSIX standard for toe.
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106       The program name refers to a developer's pun:
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108       ·   tic,
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110       ·   tac (now tack),
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112       ·   toe.
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114       It replaced a -T option which was  briefly  supported  by  the  ncurses
115       infocmp utility in 1995.
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117       The  -a  and -s options were added to toe several years later (2006 and
118       2011, respectively).
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