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Other options support maintainers of <EM>terminfo</EM> 72 terminal descriptions. 73 74 <STRONG>-a</STRONG> lists entries from all terminal database directories that 75 <EM>terminfo</EM> would search, instead of only the first that it 76 finds. 77 78 If <STRONG>-s</STRONG> is also given, <STRONG>toe</STRONG> additionally reports, like 79 <STRONG>conflict(1)</STRONG>, which entries correspond to a given terminal 80 database. An "*" marks entries that differ, and "+" marks 81 equivalent entries. 82 83 Without the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option, <STRONG>toe</STRONG> does not attempt to merge 84 duplicates in its report. 85 86 <STRONG>-h</STRONG> writes a heading naming each each directory as it is accessed. 87 88 <STRONG>-s</STRONG> sorts the output by the entry names. 89 90 <STRONG>-u</STRONG> <EM>file</EM> lists terminal type dependencies in <EM>file</EM>, a <EM>terminfo</EM> entry 91 source or <EM>termcap</EM> database file. The report summarizes the 92 "<STRONG>use</STRONG>" (<EM>terminfo</EM>) and <STRONG>tc</STRONG> (<EM>termcap</EM>) relations: each line 93 comprises the primary name of a terminal type employing <STRONG>use</STRONG>/<STRONG>tc</STRONG> 94 capabilities, a colon, a space- and tab-separated list of 95 primary names of terminal types thus named, and a newline. 96 97 <STRONG>-U</STRONG> <EM>file</EM> lists terminal type reverse dependencies in <EM>file</EM>, a <EM>terminfo</EM> 98 entry source or <EM>termcap</EM> database file. The report summarizes 99 the "<STRONG>use</STRONG>" (<EM>terminfo</EM>) and <STRONG>tc</STRONG> (<EM>termcap</EM>) reverse relations: each 100 line comprises the primary name of a terminal type occurring 101 in <STRONG>use</STRONG>/<STRONG>tc</STRONG> capabilities, a colon, a space- and tab-separated 102 list of primary names of terminal types naming them thus, and 103 a newline. 104 105 <STRONG>-v</STRONG> [<EM>n</EM>] reports verbose status information to the standard error 106 stream, showing <STRONG>toe</STRONG>'s progress. 107 108 The optional parameter <EM>n</EM> is an integer between 1 and 10 109 inclusive, interpreted as for <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>. If <EM>ncurses</EM> is built 110 without tracing support, <EM>n</EM> is ignored. 111 112 <STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of <EM>ncurses</EM> associated with this program 113 and exits with a successful status. 114 115 116</PRE><H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE> 117 <EM>/usr/share/terminfo</EM> 118 compiled terminal description database 119 120 121</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE> 122 <STRONG>toe</STRONG> is not provided by other implementations. There is no applicable 123 X/Open or POSIX standard for it. 124 125 126</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE> 127 <STRONG>toe</STRONG> replaces a <STRONG>-T</STRONG> option that was briefly supported by the <EM>ncurses</EM> 128 <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> utility in 1995. 129 130 The <STRONG>-a</STRONG> and <STRONG>-s</STRONG> options were added in 2006 and 2011, respectively. 131 132 The program's name originates with a developer's pun: 133 134 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tic</STRONG>, 135 136 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>tac</STRONG> (now <STRONG>tack</STRONG>), 137 138 <STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>toe</STRONG>. 139 140 141</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></H2><PRE> 142 When not sorting with the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option, the <STRONG>-a</STRONG> option reports all of the 143 names found in all of the terminal database directories named in the 144 <EM>TERMINFO</EM> and <EM>TERMINFO</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>DIRS</EM> environment variables. 145 146 xterm-color generic color xterm 147 xterm-xfree86 xterm terminal emulator (XFree86) 148 xterm-vt220 xterm emulating vt220 149 xterm-256color xterm with 256 colors 150 xterm-r6 xterm X11R6 version 151 xterm-r5 xterm R5 version 152 xterm-mono monochrome xterm 153 xterm xterm terminal emulator (X Window System) 154 vt220 dec vt220 155 vt102 dec vt102 156 vt100 dec vt100 (w/advanced video) 157 vt52 dec vt52 158 ... 159 160 Use the <STRONG>-a</STRONG> and <STRONG>-s</STRONG> options together to show where each terminal 161 description was found. 162 163 --> /etc/terminfo 164 ----> /lib/terminfo 165 ------> /usr/share/terminfo 166 167 --*---: vt100 dec vt100 (w/advanced video) 168 --*---: vt102 dec vt102 169 --*---: vt220 dec vt220 170 --*---: vt52 dec vt52 171 --*---: xterm xterm terminal emulator (X Window System) 172 --*---: xterm-256color xterm with 256 colors 173 --*---: xterm-color generic color xterm 174 --*---: xterm-mono monochrome xterm 175 --*---: xterm-r5 xterm R5 version 176 --*---: xterm-r6 xterm X11R6 version 177 --*---: xterm-vt220 xterm emulating vt220 178 --*---: xterm-xfree86 xterm terminal emulator (XFree86) 179 ... 180 181 182</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE> 183 <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, 184 <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG> 185 186 187 188ncurses 6.5 2024-04-20 <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG> 189</PRE> 190<div class="nav"> 191<ul> 192<li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li> 193<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li> 194<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li> 195<li><a href="#h2-OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></li> 196<li><a href="#h2-FILES">FILES</a></li> 197<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li> 198<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li> 199<li><a href="#h2-EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></li> 200<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li> 201</ul> 202</div> 203</BODY> 204</HTML> 205