[PATCH 02/20] man/tput.1: Revise "longname" operand description.

[G. Branden Robinson]

I blundered in my previous patch set.  I have been pursuing a
terminological reform such that a terminal type's "description" is its
entire "entry" (be it in source or compiled format).  It is confusing to
re-use the term "description" for the lengthy, mixed-case,
space-including last field of the first line of a termcap or terminfo
description.

Also redirect man page cross reference from term(5), which describes the
_compiled_ terminfo entry format, to terminfo(5), which documents the
terminal type description in human-maintainable form.
---
 man/tput.1 | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/tput.1 b/man/tput.1
index e1e9d9d41..8189cf974 100644
--- a/man/tput.1
+++ b/man/tput.1
@@ -255,11 +255,12 @@ .SS Commands
 .B \-T
 .I type
 above),
-\fB\%@TPUT@\fP reports the terminal's description
+\fB\%@TPUT@\fP reports an intelligible characterization of the
+terminal's identity
 (or \*(``long name\*('')
 to the standard output,
 without a trailing newline.
-See \fBterm\fP(5).
+See \fB\%term\%info\fP(5).
 .SS Aliases
 \fB@TPUT@\fP handles the \fBclear\fP, \fBinit\fP and \fBreset\fP
 commands specially:
-- 
2.30.2

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