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MPE/iX Developer's Kit Reference Manual Volume II

tigetflag, tigetnum, tigetstr 

The tigetflag, tigetnum, and tigetstr routines are used to return the
value of terminfo capability (interface to terminfo).

Syntax 

     #include <curses.h>

     int tigetflag (char *capname);
     int tigetnum (char *capname);
     char *tigetstr (char *capname);

Parameters 

capname               The name of the terminfo capability for which the
                      value is required.

Return Values 

The tigetflag() routine returns -1 if capname is not a Boolean
capability.  The tigetnum() routine returns -1 if capname is not a
numeric capability.  The tigetstr() routine returns (char  *)-1 if
capname is not a string capability.

Description 

The tigetflag(), tigetnum(), and tigetstr() routines return values for
terminfo capabilities passed to them.

The following null-terminated arrays contain the capnames, the termcap 
codes and full C names for each of the terminfo variables.

      char *boolnames, *boolcodes, *boolfnames
      char *numnames, *numcodes, *numfnames
      char *strnames, *strcodes, *strfnames

Implementation Considerations 

UNIX System V implementation

See Also 

terminfo

Portability 

UNIX System V

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