| tic | [ -acSsx] [-ofile] source
      [term1 term2 ...] | 
The tic utility compiles
  terminfo(5) source into a
  database for use by other programs. The created database path name is the same
  as the source but with .cdb appended.
The following options are available:
  - -a
- Do not discard commented out capabilities.
- -c
- Only check for errors, don't write the final database.
- -ofile
- Write the database to file instead of
      source.cdb.
- -S
- For term1, term2,
      ... output a C structure containing name, compiled
      description, and compiled size. This can be used to embed terminal
      descriptions into a program.
- -s
- Display the number of terminal descriptions written to the database.
- -x
- Include non standard capabilities defined in the
      source.
Whentic discovers a
  use=term capability, the terminal
  description for term is merged in. Capabilities do not
  overwrite previously discovered ones and capabilities ending with @ are marked
  as absent so the terminal does not inherit the capability from
  used terminals.
The tic utility exits 0 on success,
  and >0 if an error occurs.
To maintain your private terminfo definitions, if the system supplied ones do
  not support your terminal:
The tic utility works with terminfo files that conform
  to the X/Open Curses Issue 4, Version 2
  (“XCURSES4.2”) standard.