The -h option can be helpful to observe where toe is looking for terminal descriptions. Other options support maintainers of terminfo terminal descriptions.

-a

lists entries from all terminal database directories that terminfo would search, instead of only the first that it finds.

If -s is also given, toe additionally reports, like conflict(1), which entries correspond to a given terminal database. An * marks entries that differ, and + marks equivalent entries.

Without the -s option, toe does not attempt to merge duplicates in its report.

-h

writes a heading naming each directory as it is accessed.

-s

sorts the output by the entry names.

-u file

lists terminal type dependencies in file, a terminfo entry source or termcap database file. The report summarizes the use (terminfo) and tc (termcap) relations: each line comprises the primary name of a terminal type employing use/tc capabilities, a colon, a space- and tab-separated list of primary names of terminal types thus named, and a newline.

-U file

lists terminal type reverse dependencies in file, a terminfo entry source or termcap database file. The report summarizes the use (terminfo) and tc (termcap) reverse relations: each line comprises the primary name of a terminal type occurring in use/tc capabilities, a colon, a space- and tab-separated list of primary names of terminal types naming them thus, and a newline.

-v [

n] reports verbose status information to the standard error stream, showing toe's progress.

The optional parameter n is an integer between 1 and 10 inclusive, interpreted as for tic(1). If ncurses is built without tracing support, n is ignored.

-V

reports the version of ncurses associated with this program and exits with a successful status.

/etc/terminfo

compiled terminal description database

toe is not provided by other implementations. There is no applicable X/Open or POSIX standard for it.

toe replaces a -T option that was briefly supported by the ncurses infocmp utility in 1995.

The -a and -s options were added in 2006 and 2011, respectively.

The program's name originates with a developer's pun:

• tic,

• tac (now tack),

• toe.