.TH TERMCAP 3X "9 February 1983"
tgetent, tgetnum, tgetflag, tgetstr, tgoto, tputs \- terminal independent operation routines
.B tgoto(cm, destcol, destline)
.B tputs(cp, affcnt, outc)
These functions extract and use capabilities from the terminal capability data
These are low level routines;
for a higher level package.
extracts the entry for terminal
should be a character buffer of size
1024 and must be retained through all subsequent calls
returns \-1 if it cannot open the
file, 0 if the terminal name given does not have an entry,
It will look in the environment for a TERMCAP variable.
If found, and the value does not begin with a slash,
is the same as the environment string TERM,
the TERMCAP string is used instead of reading the termcap file.
If it does begin with a slash, the string is used as a path name rather than
This can speed up entry into programs that call
as well as to help debug new terminal descriptions
or to make one for your terminal if you can't write the file
gets the numeric value of capability
returning \-1 if is not given for the terminal.
returns 1 if the specified capability is present in
the terminal's entry, 0 if it is not.
gets the string value of capability
placing it in the buffer at
It decodes the abbreviations for this field described in
except for cursor addressing and padding information.
returns a cursor addressing string decoded from
It uses the external variables
(from the \fBup\fR capability)
(if \fBbc\fR is given rather than \fBbs\fR)
if necessary to avoid placing \fB\en\fR, \fB^D\fR or \fB^@\fR in
(Programs which call tgoto should be sure to turn off the XTABS bit(s),
Note that programs using termcap should in general turn off XTABS
anyway since some terminals use control I for other functions,
such as nondestructive space.)
If a \fB%\fR sequence is given which is not understood, then
decodes the leading padding information of the string
gives the number of lines affected by the operation, or 1 if this is
is a routine which is called with each character in turn.
should contain the output speed of the terminal as encoded by
should contain a pad character to be used (from the \fBpc\fR capability)
if a null (\fB^@\fR) is inappropriate.
.ta \w'/usr/lib/libtermcap.a 'u
/usr/lib/libtermcap.a \-ltermcap library
ex(1), curses(3X), termcap(5)