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<H1 class="no-header">tset 1</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
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<H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
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<STRONG>tset</STRONG>, <STRONG>reset</STRONG> - terminal initialization
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<H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
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<STRONG>tset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
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[<EM>terminal</EM>]
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<STRONG>reset</STRONG> [<STRONG>-IQVcqrsw</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-e</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-i</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-k</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM>] [<STRONG>-m</STRONG> <EM>mapping</EM>]
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[<EM>terminal</EM>]
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<H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
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<STRONG>Tset</STRONG> initializes terminals. <STRONG>Tset</STRONG> first determines the
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type of terminal that you are using. This determination
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is done as follows, using the first terminal type found.
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1. The <STRONG>terminal</STRONG> argument specified on the command line.
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2. The value of the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environmental variable.
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3. (BSD systems only.) The terminal type associated with
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the standard error output device in the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file.
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(On System-V-like UNIXes and systems using that conven-
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tion, <EM>getty</EM> does this job by setting <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> according to the
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type passed to it by <EM>/etc/inittab</EM>.)
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4. The default terminal type, "unknown".
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If the terminal type was not specified on the command-
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line, the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option mappings are then applied (see the
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section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more information).
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Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark
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("?"), the user is prompted for confirmation of the termi-
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nal type. An empty response confirms the type, or,
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another type can be entered to specify a new type. Once
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the terminal type has been determined, the terminfo entry
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for the terminal is retrieved. If no terminfo entry is
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found for the type, the user is prompted for another ter-
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minal type.
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Once the terminfo entry is retrieved, the window size,
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backspace, interrupt and line kill characters (among many
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other things) are set and the terminal and tab initializa-
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tion strings are sent to the standard error output.
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Finally, if the erase, interrupt and line kill characters
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have changed, or are not set to their default values,
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their values are displayed to the standard error output.
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Use the <STRONG>-c</STRONG> or <STRONG>-w</STRONG> option to select only the window sizing
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versus the other initialization. If neither option is
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given, both are assumed.
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When invoked as <STRONG>reset</STRONG>, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> sets cooked and echo modes,
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turns off cbreak and raw modes, turns on newline transla-
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tion and resets any unset special characters to their
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default values before doing the terminal initialization
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described above. This is useful after a program dies
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leaving a terminal in an abnormal state. Note, you may
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have to type
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<STRONG><LF>reset<LF></STRONG>
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(the line-feed character is normally control-J) to get the
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terminal to work, as carriage-return may no longer work in
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the abnormal state. Also, the terminal will often not
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echo the command.
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The options are as follows:
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<STRONG>-c</STRONG> Set control characters and modes.
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<STRONG>-e</STRONG> Set the erase character to <EM>ch</EM>.
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<STRONG>-I</STRONG> Do not send the terminal or tab initialization
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strings to the terminal.
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<STRONG>-i</STRONG> Set the interrupt character to <EM>ch</EM>.
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<STRONG>-k</STRONG> Set the line kill character to <EM>ch</EM>.
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<STRONG>-m</STRONG> Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal.
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See the section <STRONG>TERMINAL</STRONG> <STRONG>TYPE</STRONG> <STRONG>MAPPING</STRONG> for more infor-
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mation.
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<STRONG>-Q</STRONG> Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt
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and line kill characters. Normally <STRONG>tset</STRONG> displays the
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values for control characters which differ from the
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system's default values.
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<STRONG>-q</STRONG> The terminal type is displayed to the standard out-
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put, and the terminal is not initialized in any way.
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The option `-' by itself is equivalent but archaic.
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<STRONG>-r</STRONG> Print the terminal type to the standard error output.
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<STRONG>-s</STRONG> Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize
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the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> to the standard output.
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See the section <STRONG>SETTING</STRONG> <STRONG>THE</STRONG> <STRONG>ENVIRONMENT</STRONG> for details.
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<STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
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program, and exits.
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<STRONG>-w</STRONG> Resize the window to match the size deduced via
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<STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>. Normally this has no effect, unless
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<STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> is not able to detect the window size.
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The arguments for the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG> options may either be
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entered as actual characters or by using the `hat' nota-
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tion, i.e., control-h may be specified as "^H" or "^h".
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<H2><a name="h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
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It is often desirable to enter the terminal type and
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information about the terminal's capabilities into the
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shell's environment. This is done using the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option.
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When the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option is specified, the commands to enter the
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information into the shell's environment are written to
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the standard output. If the <STRONG>SHELL</STRONG> environmental variable
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ends in "csh", the commands are for <STRONG>csh</STRONG>, otherwise, they
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are for <STRONG>sh</STRONG>. Note, the <STRONG>csh</STRONG> commands set and unset the
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shell variable <STRONG>noglob</STRONG>, leaving it unset. The following
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line in the <STRONG>.login</STRONG> or <STRONG>.profile</STRONG> files will initialize the
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environment correctly:
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eval `tset -s options ... `
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<H2><a name="h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></H2><PRE>
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When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the
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current system information is incorrect) the terminal type
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derived from the <EM>/etc/ttys</EM> file or the <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> environmental
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variable is often something generic like <STRONG>network</STRONG>, <STRONG>dialup</STRONG>,
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or <STRONG>unknown</STRONG>. When <STRONG>tset</STRONG> is used in a startup script it is
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often desirable to provide information about the type of
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terminal used on such ports.
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The purpose of the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option is to map from some set of
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conditions to a terminal type, that is, to tell <STRONG>tset</STRONG> "If
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I'm on this port at a particular speed, guess that I'm on
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that kind of terminal".
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The argument to the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option consists of an optional port
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type, an optional operator, an optional baud rate specifi-
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cation, an optional colon (":") character and a terminal
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type. The port type is a string (delimited by either the
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operator or the colon character). The operator may be any
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combination of ">", "<", "@", and "!"; ">" means greater
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than, "<" means less than, "@" means equal to and "!"
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inverts the sense of the test. The baud rate is specified
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as a number and is compared with the speed of the standard
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error output (which should be the control terminal). The
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terminal type is a string.
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If the terminal type is not specified on the command line,
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the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> mappings are applied to the terminal type. If the
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port type and baud rate match the mapping, the terminal
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type specified in the mapping replaces the current type.
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If more than one mapping is specified, the first applica-
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ble mapping is used.
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For example, consider the following mapping:
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<STRONG>dialup>9600:vt100</STRONG>. The port type is dialup , the operator
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is >, the baud rate specification is 9600, and the termi-
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nal type is vt100. The result of this mapping is to spec-
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ify that if the terminal type is <STRONG>dialup</STRONG>, and the baud rate
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is greater than 9600 baud, a terminal type of <STRONG>vt100</STRONG> will
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be used.
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If no baud rate is specified, the terminal type will match
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any baud rate. If no port type is specified, the terminal
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type will match any port type. For example, <STRONG>-m</STRONG>
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<STRONG>dialup:vt100</STRONG> <STRONG>-m</STRONG> <STRONG>:?xterm</STRONG> will cause any dialup port,
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regardless of baud rate, to match the terminal type vt100,
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and any non-dialup port type to match the terminal type
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?xterm. Note, because of the leading question mark, the
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user will be queried on a default port as to whether they
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are actually using an xterm terminal.
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No whitespace characters are permitted in the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option
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argument. Also, to avoid problems with meta-characters,
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it is suggested that the entire <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option argument be
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placed within single quote characters, and that <STRONG>csh</STRONG> users
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insert a backslash character ("\") before any exclamation
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marks ("!").
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<H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
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The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command appeared in BSD 3.0. The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> imple-
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mentation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD sources for
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a terminfo environment by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyr-
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sus.com>.
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<H2><a name="h2-COMPATIBILITY">COMPATIBILITY</a></H2><PRE>
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The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility has been provided for backward-compati-
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bility with BSD environments (under most modern UNIXes,
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<STRONG>/etc/inittab</STRONG> and <STRONG>getty(1)</STRONG> can set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> appropriately for
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each dial-up line; this obviates what was <STRONG>tset</STRONG>'s most
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important use). This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD
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tset, with a few exceptions specified here.
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The <STRONG>-S</STRONG> option of BSD tset no longer works; it prints an
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error message to stderr and dies. The <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option only sets
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<STRONG>TERM</STRONG>, not <STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG>. Both of these changes are because the
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<STRONG>TERMCAP</STRONG> variable is no longer supported under terminfo-
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based <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG>, which makes <STRONG>tset</STRONG> <STRONG>-S</STRONG> useless (we made it die
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noisily rather than silently induce lossage).
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There was an undocumented 4.4BSD feature that invoking
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tset via a link named `TSET` (or via any other name begin-
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ning with an upper-case letter) set the terminal to use
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upper-case only. This feature has been omitted.
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The <STRONG>-A</STRONG>, <STRONG>-E</STRONG>, <STRONG>-h</STRONG>, <STRONG>-u</STRONG> and <STRONG>-v</STRONG> options were deleted from the
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<STRONG>tset</STRONG> utility in 4.4BSD. None of them were documented in
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4.3BSD and all are of limited utility at best. The <STRONG>-a</STRONG>,
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<STRONG>-d</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-p</STRONG> options are similarly not documented or useful,
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but were retained as they appear to be in widespread use.
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It is strongly recommended that any usage of these three
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options be changed to use the <STRONG>-m</STRONG> option instead. The <STRONG>-n</STRONG>
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option remains, but has no effect. The <STRONG>-adnp</STRONG> options are
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therefore omitted from the usage summary above.
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It is still permissible to specify the <STRONG>-e</STRONG>, <STRONG>-i</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-k</STRONG>
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options without arguments, although it is strongly recom-
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mended that such usage be fixed to explicitly specify the
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character.
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As of 4.4BSD, executing <STRONG>tset</STRONG> as <STRONG>reset</STRONG> no longer implies
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the <STRONG>-Q</STRONG> option. Also, the interaction between the - option
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and the <EM>terminal</EM> argument in some historic implementations
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of <STRONG>tset</STRONG> has been removed.
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<H2><a name="h2-ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></H2><PRE>
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The <STRONG>tset</STRONG> command uses these environment variables:
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SHELL
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tells <STRONG>tset</STRONG> whether to initialize <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> using <STRONG>sh</STRONG> or <STRONG>csh</STRONG>
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syntax.
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TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is
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distinct, though many are similar.
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TERMCAP
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may denote the location of a termcap database. If it
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is not an absolute pathname, e.g., begins with a `/',
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<STRONG>tset</STRONG> removes the variable from the environment before
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looking for the terminal description.
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<H2><a name="h2-FILES">FILES</a></H2><PRE>
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/etc/ttys
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system port name to terminal type mapping database
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(BSD versions only).
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/usr/share/terminfo
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terminal capability database
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<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
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<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>,
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<STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>ttys(5)</STRONG>, <STRONG>environ(7)</STRONG>
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This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20150808).
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<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
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<li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
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<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
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<li><a href="#h2-SETTING-THE-ENVIRONMENT">SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
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<li><a href="#h2-TERMINAL-TYPE-MAPPING">TERMINAL TYPE MAPPING</a></li>
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