"tput init" fails - TERMINFO

Fri Feb 10 09:32:00 GMT 2006

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> in man 5 terminfo, there is no init string indeed. There is is1, is2 and
> is3 however. See further in man page for details.

Yes, but "man tput" says that "tput init" should work:
 init If the terminfo database is present and an entry for the
 user's terminal exists (see -Ttype, above), the following
 will occur: (1) if present, the terminal's initialization
 strings will be output (is1, is2, is3, if, iprog), (2) any
 delays (e.g., newline) specified in the entry will be set
 in the tty driver, (3) tabs expansion will be turned on or
 off according to the specification in the entry, and (4)
 if tabs are not expanded, standard tabs will be set (every
 8 spaces). If an entry does not contain the information
 needed for any of the four above activities, that activity
 will silently be skipped.
I'm not sure why it's trying to treat "init" as a capname and failing. It would
seem the documentation is out of sync with the code, or there is a bug
somewhere.
Brian
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