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$Id: captoinfo.1m,v 1.25 2010/12/04 18:36:44 tom Exp $
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.
The trace option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of following the -v with a trace level n, you repeat it n times.
This describes ncurses version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>