each capability name. It determines the types of each capability by the syntax:
* string capabilities have an "=" between the capability name and its value,
* numeric capabilities have a "#" between the capability name and its value, and
* boolean capabilities have no associated value (they are always true if specified).

Applications which use termcap do expect specific types for the commonly used capabilities, and obtain the values of capabilities from the termcap database using library calls that return successfully only