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RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/tic/tic.1,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.9 -r1.10
--- src/usr.bin/tic/tic.1	2000/01/08 06:26:24	1.9
+++ src/usr.bin/tic/tic.1	2000/03/26 16:45:04	1.10
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tic.1,v 1.9 2000/01/08 06:26:24 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tic.1,v 1.10 2000/03/26 16:45:04 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998,1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998,1999,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $From: tic.1m,v 1.25 1999/03/07 02:07:06 tom Exp $
+.\" $From: tic.1m,v 1.26 2000/03/19 02:18:18 tom Exp $
 .TH tic 1 ""
 .ds n 5
 .ds d /usr/share/terminfo
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 N\
 R\
 T\
+a\
 c\
 f\
 r\
@@ -74,8 +75,14 @@
 directory first, look at \fI$HOME/.terminfo\fR if TERMINFO is not set, and
 finally look in \fI\*d\fR.
 .TP
+\fB-a\fR
+tells \fBtic\fP to retain commented-out capabilities rather than discarding
+them.  Capabilities are commented by prefixing them with a period.
+This sets the \fB-x\fR option, because it treats the commented-out
+entries as user-defined names.
+.TP
 \fB-c\fR
-specifies to only check \fIfile\fR for errors, including syntax problems and
+tells \fBtic\fP to only check \fIfile\fR for errors, including syntax problems and
 bad use links.  If you specify \fB-C\fR (\fB-I\fR) with this option, the code
 will print warnings about entries which, after use resolution, are more than
 1023 (4096) bytes long.  Due to a fixed buffer length in older termcap
@@ -173,6 +180,9 @@
 .TP
 \fB-x\fR
 Treat unknown capabilities as user-defined.
+That is, if you supply a capability name which \fBtic\fP does not recognize,
+it will infer its type (boolean, number or string) from the syntax and
+make an extended table entry for that.
 .TP
 \fIfile\fR
 contains one or more \fBterminfo\fR terminal descriptions in source
@@ -253,16 +263,17 @@
 error messages, and can be parsed by GNU Emacs's compile facility.
 
 The
-\fB-o\fR,
+\fB-C\fR,
 \fB-G\fR,
 \fB-I\fR,
-\fB-C\fR,
 \fB-N\fR,
 \fB-R\fR,
+\fB-T\fR,
+\fB-a\fR,
 \fB-e\fR,
 \fB-f\fR,
 \fB-g\fR,
-\fB-T\fR,
+\fB-o\fR,
 \fB-r\fR,
 \fB-s\fR and
 \fB-x\fR