.TH tset "" "" "/rdb Command"
.PC "Fetch termcap entry for a terminal type"
\fBtset [ \fITERM \fB]\fR
.PP
.II "termcap^find entry for TERM"
.II TERM^find termcap entry"
The command
.B tset
duplicates the Berkeley UNIX program by the same name.
It finds the entry in file
.B /etc/termcap
for terminal type
.IR TERM .
If no terminal type is named on the command line, it returns the
.B termcap
entry for the type of terminal you are now using.
.PP
You can use
.B tset
to initialize an environmental variable, which you then filter with other
.B /rdb
or COHERENT commands.
.SH Example
If you are working on your computer's console, your terminal type is
probably
.BR ansipc .
In that case, the command
.B tset
prints the following on the standard output:
.DM
:al=\eE[L:am:bs:bt=\eE[Z:bw:cd=\eE[O:ce=\eE[K:ch=\eE[%i%d`:cl=\eE[2O:\e
:cm=\eE[%i%d;%dH:co#80:cs=\eE[%i%d;%dr:cv=\eE[%i%dd:dl=\eE[M:ho=\eE[H:\e
:is=\eE[25f\eE[7m 1=Line_L 2=Line_R 3=D_Ln 4=Und_Ln 5=Undo 6=Und_Blk 7=Tag\e
 8=Join 9=Rptx 10=Rptd \eE[m\eE[H:\e
:k0=\eE[0x:k1=\eE[1x:k2=\eE[2x:k3=\eE[3x:k4=\eE[4x:\e
:k5=\eE[5x:k6=\eE[6x:k7=\eE[7x:k8=\eE[8x:k9=\eE[9x:\e
:kb=^h:kd=\eE[B:kh=\eE[H:kl=\eE[D:kr=\eE[C:ku=\eE[A:\e
:li#24:ll=\eE[24;1H:hd=\eE[C:se=\eE[m:sf=\eE[S:sg#0:so=\eE[7m:sr=\eE[T:\e
:te=\eEc:ue=\eE[m:up=\eE[A:us=\eE[4m:\e
:KI=\eE[5x:KD=\eE[3x:Kd=\eE[P:KB=\eE[6x:KU=\eE[4x:Ku=\eE[@:KM=\eE[7x:KJ=\eE[8x:\e
:Kt=\eE[Z:KT=\et:KL=\eE[1x:KR=\eE[2x:KP=\eE[U:Kp=\eE[V:KX=\eE[9x:KC=\eE[0x:\e
:KE=\eE[24H:KW=^F:Kw=^R:Kr=^N:do=\eE[B:
.DE
.PP
The command
.DM
	TERMCAP=`tset`
.DE
.PP
initializes the environmental variable
.B TERMCAP
to your terminal's
.B termcap
entry.
Storing this information in an environmental variable greatly speeds
processing of programs that manipulate the screen.
.SH "See Also"
.B
termput
.R
.br
COHERENT Lexicon:
.B
termcap
.R
.SO tset