From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:57:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the new setupterm() function
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~726
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=620ec9d1ca1081177066e962fca18c6cf20b8aea;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Document the new setupterm() function
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcurses.tex b/Doc/lib/libcurses.tex
index 20c2717d57d7..c82bed2e9aab 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcurses.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcurses.tex
@@ -421,6 +421,13 @@ Sets the virtual screen cursor to \var{y}, \var{x}.
 If \var{y} and \var{x} are both -1, then leaveok is set.  
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{setupterm}{\optional{termstr, fd}}
+Initializes the terminal.  \var{termstr} is a string giving the
+terminal name; if omitted, the value of the TERM environment variable
+will be used.  \var{fd} is the file descriptor to which any initialization sequences will be sent; if not supplied, the file descriptor for 
+\code{sys.stdout} will be used.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{start_color}{}
 Must be called if the programmer wants to use colors, and before any
 other color manipulation routine is called.  It is good