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tion, <EM>getty</EM> does this job by setting <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> according to the
type passed to it by <EM>/etc/inittab</EM>.)
- 4. The default terminal type, ``unknown''.
+ 4. The default terminal type, "unknown".
If the terminal type was not specified on the command-
line, the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option mappings are then applied (see the
section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more information).
Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark
- (``?''), the user is prompted for confirmation of the ter-
- minal type. An empty response confirms the type, or,
+ ("?"), the user is prompted for confirmation of the termi-
+ nal type. An empty response confirms the type, or,
another type can be entered to specify a new type. Once
the terminal type has been determined, the terminfo entry
for the terminal is retrieved. If no terminfo entry is
@@ -116,8 +116,9 @@
The options are as follows:
- <STRONG>-c</STRONG> Set control characters and modes. <STRONG>-e</STRONG> Set the erase
- character to <EM>ch</EM>.
+ <STRONG>-c</STRONG> Set control characters and modes.
+
+ <STRONG>-e</STRONG> Set the erase character to <EM>ch</EM>.
<STRONG>-I</STRONG> Do not send the terminal or tab initialization
strings to the terminal.
@@ -126,36 +127,35 @@
<STRONG>-k</STRONG> Set the line kill character to <EM>ch</EM>.
- <STRONG>-m</STRONG> Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
+ <STRONG>-m</STRONG> Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
See the section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more infor-
mation.
- <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt
+ <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt
and line kill characters. Normally <STRONG>tset</STRONG> displays the
- values for control characters which differ from the
+ values for control characters which differ from the
system's default values.
- <STRONG>-q</STRONG> The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
- put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
+ <STRONG>-q</STRONG> The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
+ put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
The option `-' by itself is equivalent but archaic.
<STRONG>-r</STRONG> Print the terminal type to the standard error output.
<STRONG>-s</STRONG> Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize
the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> to the standard output.
- See the section <STRONG>SETTING</STRONG> <STRONG>THE</STRONG> <STRONG>ENVIRONMENT</STRONG> for details.
+ See the section <STRONG>SETTING</STRONG> <STRONG>THE</STRONG> <STRONG>ENVIRONMENT</STRONG> for details.
<STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
program, and exits.
- <STRONG>-w</STRONG> Resize the window to match the size deduced via
+ <STRONG>-w</STRONG> Resize the window to match the size deduced via
<STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>. Normally this has no effect, unless
<STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> is not able to detect the window size.
The arguments for the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG> options may either be
- entered as actual characters or by using the `hat' nota-
- tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as ``^H'' or
- ``^h''.
+ entered as actual characters or by using the `hat' nota-
+ tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as "^H" or "^h".
</PRE>
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
When the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option is specified, the commands to enter the
information into the shell's environment are written to
the standard output. If the <STRONG>SHELL</STRONG> environmental variable
- ends in ``csh'', the commands are for <STRONG>csh</STRONG>, otherwise, they
+ ends in "csh", the commands are for <STRONG>csh</STRONG>, otherwise, they
are for <STRONG>sh</STRONG>. Note, the <STRONG>csh</STRONG> commands set and unset the
shell variable <STRONG>noglob</STRONG>, leaving it unset. The following
line in the <STRONG>.login</STRONG> or <STRONG>.profile</STRONG> files will initialize the
@@ -187,21 +187,21 @@
terminal used on such ports.
The purpose of the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option is to map from some set of
- conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell <STRONG>tset</STRONG> ``If
+ conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell <STRONG>tset</STRONG> "If
I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on
- that kind of terminal''.
+ that kind of terminal".
The argument to the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option consists of an optional port
type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specifi-
- cation, an optional colon (``:'') character and a terminal
+ cation, an optional colon (":") character and a terminal
type. The port type is a string (delimited by either the
operator or the colon character). The operator may be any
- combination of ``&gt;'', ``&lt;'', ``@'', and ``!''; ``&gt;'' means
- greater than, ``&lt;'' means less than, ``@'' means equal to
- and ``!'' inverts the sense of the test. The baud rate is
- specified as a number and is compared with the speed of
- the standard error output (which should be the control
- terminal). The terminal type is a string.
+ combination of "&gt;", "&lt;", "@", and "!"; "&gt;" means greater
+ than, "&lt;" means less than, "@" means equal to and "!"
+ inverts the sense of the test. The baud rate is specified
+ as a number and is compared with the speed of the standard
+ error output (which should be the control terminal). The
+ terminal type is a string.
If the terminal type is not specified on the command line,
the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> mappings are applied to the terminal type. If the
@@ -232,8 +232,8 @@
argument. Also, to avoid problems with meta-characters,
it is suggested that the entire <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option argument be
placed within single quote characters, and that <STRONG>csh</STRONG> users
- insert a backslash character (``\'') before any exclama-
- tion marks (``!'').
+ insert a backslash character ("\") before any exclamation
+ marks ("!").
</PRE>
@@ -248,14 +248,14 @@
<H2>COMPATIBILITY</H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility has been provided for backward-compati-
bility with BSD environments (under most modern UNIXes,
- <STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> and <STRONG><A HREF="getty.1.html">getty(1)</A></STRONG> can set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> appropriately for
+ <STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> and <STRONG>getty(1)</STRONG> can set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> appropriately for
each dial-up line; this obviates what was <STRONG>tset</STRONG>'s most
important use). This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD
tset, with a few exceptions specified here.
The <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option of BSD tset no longer works; it prints an
error message to stderr and dies. The <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option only sets
- <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, not <STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG>. Both these changes are because the
+ <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, not <STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG>. Both of these changes are because the
<STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG> variable is no longer supported under terminfo-
based <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG>, which makes <STRONG>tset</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> useless (we made it die
noisily rather than silently induce lossage).
@@ -316,19 +316,16 @@
</PRE>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="csh.1.html">csh(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="sh.1.html">sh(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="stty.1.html">stty(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tty.4.html">tty(4)</A></STRONG>, ter-
- <STRONG><A HREF="minfo.5.html">minfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ttys.5.html">ttys(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="environ.7.html">environ(7)</A></STRONG>
+ <STRONG>csh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>sh(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG>stty(1)</STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>tty(4)</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ttys(5)</STRONG>, <STRONG>environ(7)</STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20141220).
<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
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