[PATCH 065/100] man/ncurses.3x: Recast "ENVIRONMENT" section, TERMPATH (20/21).

[G. Branden Robinson]

---
 man/ncurses.3x | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x
index 0d0467309..4d2d337c2 100644
--- a/man/ncurses.3x
+++ b/man/ncurses.3x
@@ -1601,20 +1601,33 @@ .SS "\fITERMINFO_DIRS\fP"
 .I \%ncurses
 extension.
 .SS "\fITERMPATH\fP"
-If \fI\%TERMCAP\fP does not hold a file name then \fI\%ncurses\fP checks
-the \fI\%TERMPATH\fP environment variable.
-This is a list of filenames separated by spaces or colons (i.e., ":") on Unix,
-semicolons on OS/2 EMX.
-.PP
-If the \fI\%TERMPATH\fP environment variable is not set,
-\fI\%ncurses\fP looks in the files
-.PP
-.RS 4
-.EX
-/etc/termcap, /usr/share/misc/termcap and $HOME/.termcap,
-.EE
-.RE
+If
+.I \%TERMCAP
+does not hold a terminal type description or file name,
+then
+.I \%ncurses
+checks the contents of
+.IR \%TERMPATH ,
+a list of locations,
+akin to
+.IR PATH ,
+in which it searches for
+.I termcap
+terminal type descriptions.
+The list items are separated by colons on Unix
+and semicolons on OS/2 EMX.
 .PP
+If both
+.I \%TERMCAP
+and
+.I \%TERMPATH
+are unset or invalid,
+.I \%ncurses
+searches for the files
+.IR \%/etc/termcap ,
+.IR \%/usr/share/misc/termcap ,
+and
+.IR \%$HOME/.termcap ,
 in that order.
 .SH "ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS"
 Many different
-- 
2.30.2

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