terminfo.4 (2010 09)

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terminfo(4) terminfo(4)
(ENHANCED CURSES)
applications can use Curses to invoke those features, and can take advantages of optimizations within
Curses and thus operate more efficiently. For most terminals, an optimal terminfo entry has already
been written.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
CC Specifies a substitute character for a prototype command character. See cmdch in the Miscel-
laneous subsection of the Insert/Delete Line section.
COLUMNS Specifies column information that can override the column information in terminfo. See the
Selecting a Terminal section.
LINES Specifies lines information that can override the lines information in terminfo. See the
Selecting a Terminal section.
TERM Specifies the name of the current terminal. See the Selecting a Terminal section.
TERMINFO
Specifies an alternate location for a local terminal definition. If the value in TERM is not found
in $TERMINFO/?/* or if TERMINFO is not set, the value is sought in the default location,
/usr/lib/terminfo/?/*. See the Selecting a Terminal section.
SEE ALSO
tic(1), untic(1), tgetent(3X), tigetflag(3X), term(4), term(5).
ANSI Standard X3.64-1979.
X/Open System Interface Definitions, Issue 4, Version 2.
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