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$Id: captoinfo.1m,v 1.30 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
@CAPTOINFO@ - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description @CAPTOINFO@ [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file ... @CAPTOINFO@ looks in each given text file for termcap descriptions. For each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is written to standard output. Termcap tc capabilities are translated directly to terminfo use capabilities.

If no file is given, then the environment variable TERMCAP is used for the filename or entry. If TERMCAP is a full pathname to a file, only the terminal whose name is specified in the environment variable TERM is extracted from that file. If the environment variable TERMCAP is not set, then the file \*d is read.

5 -v print out tracing information on standard error as the program runs.

5 -V print out the version of the program in use on standard error and exit.

5 -1 cause the fields to print out one to a line. Otherwise, the fields will be printed several to a line to a maximum width of 60 characters.

5 -w change the output to width characters.

20 \*d Compiled terminal description database.

Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically be translated into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo capabilities by @CAPTOINFO@. Whenever one of these automatic translations is done, the program will issue an notification to stderr, inviting the user to check that it has not mistakenly translated a completely unknown and random capability and/or syntax error.

Nonstd Std From Terminfo

name name capability

BO mr AT&T enter_reverse_mode

CI vi AT&T cursor_invisible

CV ve AT&T cursor_normal

DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode

EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode

FE LF AT&T label_on

FL LO AT&T label_off

XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode

EN @7 XENIX key_end

GE ae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode

GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode

HM kh XENIX key_home

LD kL XENIX key_dl

PD kN XENIX key_npage

PN po XENIX prtr_off

PS pf XENIX prtr_on

PU kP XENIX key_ppage

RT @8 XENIX kent

UP ku XENIX kcuu1

KA k; Tek key_f10

KB F1 Tek key_f11

KC F2 Tek key_f12

KD F3 Tek key_f13

KE F4 Tek key_f14

KF F5 Tek key_f15

BC Sb Tek set_background

FC Sf Tek set_foreground

HS mh Iris enter_dim_mode

XENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capabilities for forms drawing, designed to take advantage of the IBM PC high-half graphics. They were as follows:

Cap Graphic

G2 upper left

G3 lower left

G1 upper right

G4 lower right

GR pointing right

GL pointing left

GU pointing up

GD pointing down

GH horizontal line

GV vertical line

GC intersection

G6 upper left

G7 lower left

G5 upper right

G8 lower right

Gr tee pointing right

Gr tee pointing left

Gu tee pointing up

Gd tee pointing down

Gh horizontal line

Gv vertical line

Gc intersection

GG acs magic cookie count

If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they will automatically be composed into an acsc string. The double-line capabilities and GG are discarded with a warning message.

IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 terminfo but incompatible with the SVr4 format. The following AIX extensions are automatically translated:

IBM XSI

ksel kslt

kbtab kcbt

font0 s0ds

font1 s1ds

font2 s2ds

font3 s3ds

Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automatically translated to an acsc string.

Hewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstandard terminfo capabilities meml (memory lock) and memu (memory unlock). These will be discarded with a warning message.

This utility is actually a link to @TIC@(1M), running in -I mode. You can use other @TIC@ options such as -f and -x.

The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of following the -v with a trace level n, you repeat it n times.

X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes tic briefly, but omits this program. SVr4 systems provide captoinfo as a separate application from tic.

NetBSD does not provide this application.

@INFOCMP@(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(\*n)

This describes ncurses version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and

Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>