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+.\"***************************************************************************
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+.\"
+.\" $Id: tset.1,v 1.79 2023/12/23 16:20:07 tom Exp $
+.TH tset 1 2023-12-23 "ncurses 6.4" "User commands"
+.ie \n(.g \{\
+.ds `` \(lq
+.ds '' \(rq
+.ds ^ \(ha
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.ie t .ds `` ``
+.el .ds `` ""
+.ie t .ds '' ''
+.el .ds '' ""
+.ds ^ ^
+.\}
+.
+.de bP
+.ie n .IP \(bu 4
+.el .IP \(bu 2
+..
+.
+.ds d /usr/share/terminfo
+.SH NAME
+\fB\%tset\fP,
+\fB\%reset\fP \-
+initialize or reset terminal state
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBtset\fP [\fB\-IQVcqrsw\fP] [\fB\-\fP] [\fB\-e\fP \fIch\fP] [\fB\-i\fP \fIch\fP] [\fB\-k\fP \fIch\fP] [\fB\-m\fP \fImapping\fP] [\fIterminal-type\fP]
+.br
+\fBreset\fP [\fB\-IQVcqrsw\fP] [\fB\-\fP] [\fB\-e\fP \fIch\fP] [\fB\-i\fP \fIch\fP] [\fB\-k\fP \fIch\fP] [\fB\-m\fP \fImapping\fP] [\fIterminal-type\fP]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.SS "\fItset\fP \(em initialization"
+This program initializes terminals.
+.PP
+First, \fBtset\fP retrieves the current terminal mode settings
+for your terminal.
+It does this by successively testing
+.bP
+the standard error,
+.bP
+standard output,
+.bP
+standard input and
+.bP
+ultimately \*(``/dev/tty\*(''
+.PP
+to obtain terminal settings.
+Having retrieved these settings, \fBtset\fP remembers which
+file descriptor to use when updating settings.
+.PP
+Next, \fBtset\fP determines the type of terminal that you are using.
+This determination is done as follows, using the first terminal type found.
+.PP
+1. The \fBterminal\fP argument specified on the command line.
+.PP
+2. The value of the \fITERM\fP environment variable.
+.PP
+3. (BSD systems only.) The terminal type associated with the standard
+error output device in the \fI/etc/ttys\fP file.
+(On System\ V hosts and systems using that convention,
+\fI\%getty\fP(8) does this job by setting
+\fITERM\fP according to the type passed to it by \fI\%/etc/inittab\fP.)
+.PP
+4. The default terminal type, \*(``unknown\*('',
+is not suitable for curses applications.
+.PP
+If the terminal type was not specified on the command-line, the \fB\-m\fP
+option mappings are then applied;
+see subsection \*(``Terminal Type Mapping\*(''.
+Then, if the terminal type begins with a question mark (\*(``?\*(''), the
+user is prompted for confirmation of the terminal 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 terminal description for the terminal is retrieved.
+If no terminal description is found
+for the type, the user is prompted for another terminal type.
+.PP
+Once the terminal description is retrieved,
+.bP
+if the \*(``\fB\-w\fP\*('' option is enabled, \fBtset\fP may update
+the terminal's window size.
+.IP
+If the window size cannot be obtained from the operating system,
+but the terminal description
+(or environment,
+e.g.,
+\fILINES\fP and \fI\%COLUMNS\fP variables specify this),
+use this to set the operating system's notion of the window size.
+.bP
+if the \*(``\fB\-c\fP\*('' option is enabled,
+the backspace, interrupt and line kill characters
+(among many other things) are set
+.bP
+unless the \*(``\fB\-I\fP\*('' option is enabled,
+the terminal
+and tab \fIinitialization\fP strings are sent to the standard error output,
+and \fBtset\fP waits one second (in case a hardware reset was issued).
+.bP
+Finally, if the erase, interrupt and line kill characters have changed,
+or are not set to their default values, their values are displayed to the
+standard error output.
+.SS "\fIreset\fP \(em reinitialization"
+When invoked as \fBreset\fP, \fBtset\fP sets the terminal
+modes to \*(``sane\*('' values:
+.bP
+sets cooked and echo modes,
+.bP
+turns off cbreak and raw modes,
+.bP
+turns on newline translation and
+.bP
+resets any unset special characters to their default values
+.PP
+before
+doing the terminal initialization described above.
+Also, rather than using the terminal \fIinitialization\fP strings,
+it uses the terminal \fIreset\fP strings.
+.PP
+The \fBreset\fP command is useful
+after a program dies leaving a terminal in an abnormal state:
+.bP
+you may have to type
+.sp
+ \fI<LF>\fBreset\fI<LF>\fR
+.sp
+(the line-feed character is normally control-J) to get the terminal
+to work, as carriage-return may no longer work in the abnormal state.
+.bP
+Also, the terminal will often not echo the command.
+.SS "Setting the Environment"
+It is often desirable to enter the terminal type and information about
+the terminal's capabilities into the shell's environment.
+This is done using the \fB\-s\fP option.
+.PP
+When the \fB\-s\fP option is specified, the commands to enter the information
+into the shell's environment are written to the standard output.
+If the \fISHELL\fP environment variable ends in \*(``csh\*('',
+the commands
+are for \fIcsh\fP(1),
+otherwise,
+they are for \fIsh\fP(1).
+The \fIcsh\fP commands set and unset the shell variable \fBnoglob\fP,
+leaving it unset.
+The following line in the \fB.login\fP
+or \fB.profile\fP files will initialize the environment correctly:
+.sp
+ eval \(gatset \-s options ... \(ga
+.
+.SS "Terminal Type Mapping"
+When the terminal is not hardwired into the system (or the current
+system information is incorrect) the terminal type derived from the
+\fI/etc/ttys\fP file or the \fITERM\fP environment variable is often
+something generic like \fBnetwork\fP, \fBdialup\fP, or \fBunknown\fP.
+When \fBtset\fP is used in a startup script it is often desirable to
+provide information about the type of terminal used on such ports.
+.PP
+The \fB\-m\fP options maps
+from some set of conditions to a terminal type, that is, to
+tell \fBtset\fP
+\*(``If I'm on this port at a particular speed,
+guess that I'm on that kind of terminal\*(''.
+.PP
+The argument to the \fB\-m\fP option consists of an optional port type, an
+optional operator, an optional baud rate specification, 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
+\*(``>\*('',
+\*(``<\*('',
+\*(``@\*('',
+and \*(``!\*('';
+\*(``>\*('' means greater than,
+\*(``<\*('' 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.
+.PP
+If the terminal type is not specified on the command line, the \fB\-m\fP
+mappings are applied to the terminal type.
+If the port type and baud
+rate match the mapping, the terminal type specified in the mapping
+replaces the current type.
+If more than one mapping is specified, the
+first applicable mapping is used.
+.PP
+For example, consider the following mapping: \fBdialup>9600:vt100\fP.
+The port type is dialup , the operator is >, the baud rate
+specification is 9600, and the terminal type is vt100.
+The result of
+this mapping is to specify that if the terminal type is \fBdialup\fP,
+and the baud rate is greater than 9600 baud, a terminal type of
+\fBvt100\fP will be used.
+.PP
+If no baud rate is specified, the terminal type will match any baud rate.
+If no port type is specified, the terminal type will match any port type.
+For example, \fB\-m dialup:vt100 \-m :?xterm\fP
+will cause any dialup port, regardless of baud rate, to match the terminal
+type vt100, and any non-dialup port type to match the terminal type ?xterm.
+Note, because of the leading question mark, the user will be
+queried on a default port as to whether they are actually using an xterm
+terminal.
+.PP
+No whitespace characters are permitted in the \fB\-m\fP option argument.
+Also, to avoid problems with meta-characters, it is suggested that the
+entire \fB\-m\fP option argument be placed within single quote characters,
+and that \fIcsh\fP users insert a backslash character (\*(``\e\*('')
+before any exclamation marks (\*(``!\*('').
+.SH OPTIONS
+The options are as follows:
+.TP 5
+.B \-c
+Set control characters and modes.
+.TP 5
+.BI \-e\ ch
+Set the erase character to \fIch\fP.
+.TP
+.B \-I
+Do not send the terminal or tab initialization strings to the terminal.
+.TP
+.BI \-i\ ch
+Set the interrupt character to \fIch\fP.
+.TP
+.BI \-k\ ch
+Set the line kill character to \fIch\fP.
+.TP
+.BI \-m\ mapping
+Specify a mapping from a port type to a terminal;
+see subsection \*(``Terminal Type Mapping\*(''.
+.TP
+.B \-Q
+Do not display any values for the erase, interrupt and line kill characters.
+Normally \fBtset\fP displays the values for control characters which
+differ from the system's default values.
+.TP
+.B \-q
+The terminal type is displayed to the standard output, and the terminal is
+not initialized in any way.
+The option \*(``\-\*('' by itself is equivalent but archaic.
+.TP
+.B \-r
+Print the terminal type to the standard error output.
+.TP
+.B \-s
+Print the sequence of shell commands to initialize the environment variable
+\fITERM\fP to the standard output;
+see subsection \*(``Setting the Environment\*(''.
+.TP
+.B \-V
+reports the version of \fI\%ncurses\fP which was used in this program,
+and exits.
+.TP
+.B \-w
+Resize the window to match the size deduced via \fB\%setupterm\fP(3NCURSES).
+Normally this has no effect,
+unless \fBsetupterm\fP is not able to detect the window size.
+.PP
+The arguments for the \fB\-e\fP, \fB\-i\fP, and \fB\-k\fP
+options may either be entered as actual characters
+or by using the \*(``hat\*(''
+notation, i.e., control-h may be specified as \*(``\*^H\*('' or \*(``\*^h\*(''.
+.PP
+If neither \fB\-c\fP or \fB\-w\fP is given, both options are assumed.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+The \fBtset\fP command uses these environment variables:
+.TP 5
+.I SHELL
+tells \fBtset\fP whether to initialize \fITERM\fP using \fIsh\fP(1) or
+\fIcsh\fP(1) syntax.
+.TP 5
+.I TERM
+Denotes your terminal type.
+Each terminal type is distinct, though many are similar.
+.TP 5
+.I TERMCAP
+may denote the location of a termcap database.
+If it is not an absolute pathname, e.g., begins with a \*(``/\*('',
+\fBtset\fP removes the variable from the environment before looking
+for the terminal description.
+.SH FILES
+.TP
+.I /etc/ttys
+system port name to terminal type mapping database (BSD versions only).
+.TP
+.I \*d
+compiled terminal description database directory
+.SH PORTABILITY
+Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
+(POSIX.1-2008) nor
+X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents \fBtset\fP or \fBreset\fP.
+.PP
+The AT&T \fBtput\fP utility (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris)
+incorporated the terminal-mode manipulation as well as termcap-based features
+such as resetting tabstops from \fBtset\fP in BSD (4.1c),
+presumably with the intention of making \fBtset\fP obsolete.
+However, each of those systems still provides \fBtset\fP.
+In fact, the commonly-used \fBreset\fP utility
+is always an alias for \fBtset\fP.
+.PP
+The \fB\%tset\fP utility provides backward compatibility with BSD
+environments;
+under most modern Unices,
+\fI\%/etc/inittab\fP and \fI\%getty\fP(8) can set \fITERM\fP
+appropriately for each dial-up line,
+obviating what was \fB\%tset\fP's most important use.
+This implementation behaves like 4.4BSD \fBtset\fP,
+with a few exceptions we shall consider now.
+.PP
+A few options are different
+because the \fI\%TERMCAP\fP variable
+is no longer supported under terminfo-based \fI\%ncurses\fP:
+.bP
+The \fB\-S\fP option of BSD \fBtset\fP no longer works;
+it prints an error message to the standard error and dies.
+.bP
+The \fB\-s\fP option only sets \fITERM\fP,
+not \fI\%TERMCAP\fP.
+.PP
+There was an undocumented 4.4BSD feature
+that invoking \fBtset\fP via a link named
+\*(``TSET\*('' (or via any other name beginning with an upper-case letter)
+set the terminal to use upper-case only.
+This feature has been omitted.
+.PP
+The \fB\-A\fP, \fB\-E\fP, \fB\-h\fP, \fB\-u\fP and \fB\-v\fP
+options were deleted from the \fBtset\fP
+utility in 4.4BSD.
+None of them were documented in 4.3BSD and all are
+of limited utility at best.
+The \fB\-a\fP, \fB\-d\fP, and \fB\-p\fP options are similarly
+not documented or useful, but were retained as they appear to be in
+widespread use.
+It is strongly recommended that any usage of these
+three options be changed to use the \fB\-m\fP option instead.
+The \fB\-a\fP, \fB\-d\fP, and \fB\-p\fP options
+are therefore omitted from the usage summary above.
+.PP
+Very old systems, e.g., 3BSD, used a different terminal driver which
+was replaced in 4BSD in the early 1980s.
+To accommodate these older systems, the 4BSD \fBtset\fP provided a
+\fB\-n\fP option to specify that the new terminal driver should be used.
+This implementation does not provide that choice.
+.PP
+It is still permissible to specify the \fB\-e\fP, \fB\-i\fP,
+and \fB\-k\fP options without arguments,
+although it is strongly recommended that such usage be fixed to
+explicitly specify the character.
+.PP
+As of 4.4BSD,
+executing \fBtset\fP as \fBreset\fP no longer implies the \fB\-Q\fP option.
+Also, the interaction between the \- option and the \fIterminal\fP
+argument in some historic implementations of \fBtset\fP has been removed.
+.PP
+The \fB\-c\fP and \fB\-w\fP options are not found in earlier implementations.
+However, a different window size-change feature was provided in 4.4BSD.
+.bP
+In 4.4BSD, \fBtset\fP uses the window size from the termcap description
+to set the window size if \fBtset\fP is not able to obtain the window
+size from the operating system.
+.bP
+In \fI\%ncurses\fP, \fBtset\fP obtains the window size using
+\fBsetupterm\fP, which may be from
+the operating system,
+the \fILINES\fP and \fICOLUMNS\fP environment variables or
+the terminal description.
+.PP
+Obtaining the window size from the terminal description is common to
+both implementations, but considered obsolescent.
+Its only practical use is for hardware terminals.
+Generally speaking, a window size would be unset only if there were
+some problem obtaining the value from the operating system
+(and \fBsetupterm\fP would still fail).
+For that reason,
+the \fILINES\fP and \fI\%COLUMNS\fP environment variables
+may be useful for working around window-size problems.
+Those have the drawback that if the window is resized,
+those variables must be recomputed and reassigned.
+To do this more easily, use the \fBresize\fP(1) program.
+.SH HISTORY
+A \fB\%reset\fP command written by Kurt Shoens appeared in 1BSD
+(March 1978).
+.\" https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=1BSD/s6/reset.c
+It set the \fIerase\fP and \fIkill\fP characters
+to \fB\*^H\fP (backspace) and \fB@\fP respectively.
+Mark Horton improved this \fB\%reset\fP in 3BSD
+(October 1979),
+adding \fIintr\fP,
+\fIquit\fP,
+\fIstart\fP/\fIstop\fP,
+and \fIeof\fP
+characters as well as changing the program to avoid modifying any user
+settings.
+.\" https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=3BSD/usr/src/cmd/\
+.\" reset.c
+That version of \fB\%reset\fP did not use \fI\%termcap\fP.
+.PP
+Eric Allman wrote a distinct \fBtset\fP command for 1BSD,
+using a forerunner of \fI\%termcap\fP called \fI\%ttycap\fP.
+.\" https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=1BSD/s6/tset.c
+.\" https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=1BSD/man7/ttycap.7
+Allman's comments in the source code indicate
+that he began work in October 1977,
+continuing development over the next few years.
+By late 1979,
+it had migrated to \fI\%termcap\fP and handled the \fI\%TERMCAP\fP
+variable.
+.\" https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=3BSD/usr/src/cmd/\
+.\" tset/tset.c
+Later comments indicate that \fBtset\fP was modified in September 1980
+to use logic copied from the 3BSD \*(``reset\*('' program when it was
+invoked as \fB\%reset\fP.
+.\" https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.9BSD/usr/src/ucb/\
+.\" tset/tset.c
+This version appeared in 4.1cBSD, \" and backported to 2.9BSD
+late in 1982.
+Other developers such as Keith Bostic and Jim Bloom continued to modify
+\fBtset\fP until 4.4BSD was released in 1993.
+.PP
+The \fI\%ncurses\fP implementation was lightly adapted from the 4.4BSD
+sources to use the \fI\%terminfo\fP API by Eric S.\& Raymond
+<esr@snark.thyrsus.com>.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+\fB\%csh\fP(1),
+\fB\%sh\fP(1),
+\fB\%stty\fP(1),
+\fB\%terminfo\fP(3NCURSES),
+\fB\%tty\fP(4),
+\fB\%terminfo\fP(5),
+\fB\%ttys\fP(4),
+\fB\%environ\fP(7)