tic -- Command

Compile a terminfo description
tic [-v[n]] sourcefile

The command tic compiles a sourcefile of terminfo information into a binary
object.

sourcefile must be self-contained, i.e., it may not contain ``use'' entries
that refer to terminals not described fully in the same file.

The object  files generated by tic are  normally placed into subdirectories
of the directory /usr/lib/terminfo. If the environment variable TERMINFO is
defined, it is assumed to name an alternative directory to use.

The flag -vn tells tic to output debugging and tracing information.  n sets
the amount of debugging information to produce, as follows:

    1   Names of files created
    2   Information related to the ``use'' facility
    3   Statistics from the hashing algorithm
    5   String-table memory allocations
    7   Entries into the string-table
    8   List of tokens encountered by scanner
    9   All values computed in construction of the hash table

n is set to one by default.

Files

/usr/lib/terminfo/* -- Default location of object files

See Also

commands,
infocmp,
terminfo,
term
Strang, J.,  Mui, L., O'Reilly, T.: termcap  and terminfo.  Sebastopol, CA:
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.

Notes

tic was  written by Pavel Curtis  of Cornell University.  It  was ported to
COHERENT by Udo Munk.

© 2012 by Stephen A. Ness