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toe(1) General Commands Manual toe(1)
NAME
toe - table of (terminfo) entries
SYNOPSIS
toe [-v[n]] [-ahsuUV] file...
DESCRIPTION
With no options, toe lists all available terminal types by primary name with descriptions.
File arguments specify the directories to be scanned; if no such arguments are given, your
default terminfo directory is scanned. If you also specify the -h option, a directory
header will be issued as each directory is entered.
There are other options intended for use by terminfo file maintainers:
-a report on all of the terminal databases which ncurses would search, rather than
only the first one that it finds.
If the -s is also given, toe adds a column to the report, showing (like con-
flict(1)) which entries which belong to a given terminal database. An "*" marks
entries which differ, and "+" marks equivalent entries.
Without the -s option, toe does not attempt to merge duplicates in its report
-s sort the output by the entry names.
-u file
says to write a report to the standard output, listing dependencies in the given
terminfo/termcap source file. The report condenses the "use" relation: each line
consists of the primary name of a terminal that has use capabilities, followed by a
colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names of all terminals which
occur in those use capabilities, followed by a newline
-U file
says to write a report to the standard output, listing reverse dependencies in the
given terminfo/termcap source file. The report reverses the "use" relation: each
line consists of the primary name of a terminal that occurs in use capabilities,
followed by a colon, followed by the whitespace-separated primary names of all ter-
minals which depend on it, followed by a newline.
-vn specifies that (verbose) output be written to standard error, showing toe's
progress.
The optional parameter n is a number from 1 to 10, interpreted as for tic(1). If
ncurses is built without tracing support, the optional parameter is ignored.
-V reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits.
EXAMPLES
Without sorting, the -a option reports all of the names found in all of the terminal data-
bases found by the TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables:
MtxOrb162 16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
MtxOrb204 20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
MtxOrb Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
qvt101+ qume qvt 101 PLUS product
qvt119+-25 QVT 119 PLUS with 25 data lines
qansi-g QNX ANSI
qvt103 qume qvt 103
qnxw QNX4 windows
qansi-w QNX ansi for windows
qnxm QNX4 with mouse events
qvt203-25-w QVT 203 PLUS with 25 by 132 columns
qansi-t QNX ansi without console writes
. . .
Use the -a and -s options together to show where each terminal description was found:
--> /usr/local/ncurses/share/terminfo
----> /usr/share/terminfo
*-+-: 9term Plan9 terminal emulator for X
*---: Eterm Eterm with xterm-style color support (X Window System)
*-*-: Eterm-256color Eterm with xterm 256-colors
*-*-: Eterm-88color Eterm with 88 colors
*-+-: MtxOrb Generic Matrix Orbital LCD display
*-+-: MtxOrb162 16x2 Matrix Orbital LCD display
*-+-: MtxOrb204 20x4 Matrix Orbital LCD display
*-*-: NCR260VT300WPP NCR 2900_260 vt300 wide mode pc+ kybd
*-+-: aaa ann arbor ambassador/30 lines
*-+-: aaa+dec ann arbor ambassador in dec vt100 mode
*-+-: aaa+rv ann arbor ambassador in reverse video
. . .
FILES
/etc/terminfo/?/*
Compiled terminal description database.
HISTORY
This utility is not provided by other implementations. There is no relevant X/Open or
POSIX standard for toe.
The program name refers to a developer's pun:
o tic,
o tac (now tack),
o toe.
It replaced a -T option which was briefly supported by the ncurses infocmp utility in
1995.
The -a and -s options were added to toe several years later (2006 and 2011, respectively).
SEE ALSO
captoinfo(1), infocmp(1), infotocap(1), tic(1), ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5).
This describes ncurses version 6.3 (patch 20211021).
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