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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcurses/curs_addch.3tbl')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcurses/curs_addch.3tbl b/lib/libcurses/curs_addch.3tbl index a6547e7521d..cd67028ef9a 100644 --- a/lib/libcurses/curs_addch.3tbl +++ b/lib/libcurses/curs_addch.3tbl @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ '\" t -.\" $OpenBSD: curs_addch.3tbl,v 1.7 1999/01/18 19:07:11 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: curs_addch.3tbl,v 1.8 1999/02/11 00:09:36 millert Exp $ .\" .\"*************************************************************************** .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $From: curs_addch.3x,v 1.15 1998/11/29 01:03:52 Rick.Ohnemus Exp $ +.\" $From: curs_addch.3x,v 1.16 1999/02/07 03:47:42 tom Exp $ .TH curs_addch 3 "" .SH NAME \fBaddch\fR, \fBwaddch\fR, \fBmvaddch\fR, \fBmvwaddch\fR, @@ -136,30 +136,19 @@ descriptions. .SH NOTES Note that \fBaddch\fR, \fBmvaddch\fR, \fBmvwaddch\fR, and \fBechochar\fR may be macros. -.SH EXTENSIONS -The following extended \fBcurses\fR features are available only on PC-clone -consoles and compatible terminals obeying the ANSI.SYS de-facto standard for -terminal control sequences. They are not part of XSI curses. - -The attribute A_ALTCHARSET actually forces literal display of PC ROM characters -including the high-half graphics. Your console driver may still capture or -translate a few (such as ESC) but this feature should give you access to the -card-suit characters, up and down-arrow, and most others in the range 0-32. -(In a terminfo entry designed for use with \fBncurses\fR, the high-half -characters are obtained using this attribute with an \fBacsc\fR string in -which the second of each pair is a high-half character.) - -Giving \fBwechochar\fR an argument with its high bit set will produce the -corresponding high-half ASCII graphic (SVr4 curses also has this feature but -does not document it). A control-character argument, however, will not -typically produce the corresponding graphic; characters such as CR, NL, FF and -TAB are typically interpreted by the console driver itself, and ESC will be -interpreted as the leader of a control sequence. .SH PORTABILITY All these functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. The defaults specified for forms-drawing characters apply in the POSIX locale. -The seven ACS symbols starting with \fBACS_S3\fR were not documented in +Some ACS symbols +(ACS_S3, +ACS_S7, +ACS_LEQUAL, +ACS_GEQUAL, +ACS_PI, +ACS_NEQUAL, +ACS_STERLING) +were not documented in any publicly released System V. However, many publicly available terminfos include \fBacsc\fR strings in which their key characters (pryz{|}) are embedded, and a second-hand list of their character descriptions has come |