- captoinfo looks in each given text file for termcap descriptions. For
- each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is written to stan-
- dard output. Termcap tc capabilities are translated directly to ter-
- minfo 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 /usr/share/terminfo is read.
-
- -v print out tracing information on standard error as the program
- runs.
+ captoinfo [tic-option] [file ...]
- -V print out the version of the program in use on standard error and
- exit.
+ captoinfo-V
- -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.
- -w change the output to width characters.
-
-
-
- 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 automati-
- cally 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
+
+ captoinfo translates terminal descriptions. It looks in each given
+ text file for termcap entries and, for each one found, writes an
+ equivalent terminfo description to the standard output stream. termcap
+ tc capabilities translate to terminfo "use" capabilities.
+
+ If no files are specified, captoinfo interprets the content of the
+ environment variable TERMCAP as a file name, and extracts only the
+ entry for the terminal named in the environment variable TERM from it.
+ If the environment variable TERMCAP is not set, captoinfo reads
+ /etc/termcap.
+
+ This utility is implemented as a link to tic(1m), with the latter's -I
+ option implied. You can use other tic options such as -1, -f, -v, -w,
+ and -x. The -V option reports the version of ncurses associated with
+ this program and exits with a successful status.
+
+
+
+ captoinfo translates some obsolete, nonstandard capabilities into
+ standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo capabilities. It issues a
+ diagnostic to the standard error stream for each, inviting the user to
+ check that it has not mistakenly translated an unknown or mistyped
+ capability name.
+
+ Name
+ ObsoleteStandardOrigintteerrmmiinnffoo capability
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ BOmr AT&T enter_reverse_mode
+ CIvi AT&T cursor_invisible
+ CVve AT&T cursor_normal
+ DSmh AT&T enter_dim_mode
+ EEme AT&T exit_attribute_mode
+ FELF AT&T label_on
+ FLLO AT&T label_off
+ XSmk AT&T enter_secure_mode
+ EN@7 XENIX key_end
+ GEae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode
+ GSas XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode
+ HMkh XENIX key_home
+ LDkL XENIX key_dl
+ PDkN XENIX key_npage
+ PNpo XENIX prtr_off
+ PSpf XENIX prtr_on
+ PUkP XENIX key_ppage
+ RT@8 XENIX kent
+ UPku XENIX kcuu1
+ KAk; Tektronix key_f10
+ KBF1 Tektronix key_f11
+ KCF2 Tektronix key_f12
+ KDF3 Tektronix key_f13
+ KEF4 Tektronix key_f14
+ KFF5 Tektronix key_f15
+ BCSb Tektronix set_background
+
+ FCSf Tektronix set_foreground
+ HSmh IRIX enter_dim_mode
+
+ XENIX termcap had a set of extension capabilities, corresponding to box
+ drawing characters of CCSID ("code page") 437, as follows.
+
+ tteerrmmccaapp NameGraphic
+ -----------------------------------------
+ G2 upper left corner
+ G3 lower left corner
+ G1 upper right corner
+ G4 lower right corner
+ GR tee pointing right
+ GL tee pointing left
+ GU tee pointing up
+ GD tee pointing down
+ GH horizontal line
+ GV vertical line
+ GC intersection
+ G6 double upper left corner
+ G7 double lower left corner
+ G5 double upper right corner
+ G8 double lower right corner
+ Gr double tee pointing right
+ Gr double tee pointing left
+ Gu double tee pointing up
+ Gd double tee pointing down
+ Gh double horizontal line
+ Gv double vertical line
+ Gc double intersection
+ GG ACS magic cookie count
+
+ captoinfo composes single-line capabilities into an acsc string, and
+ discards GG and double-line capabilities with a warning diagnostic.
+
+ IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 terminfo, but
+ which is incompatible with the SVr4 format. captoinfo translates the
+ following AIX extensions.
+
+ IBMXSI
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- Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automatically translated
- to an acsc string.
+ Additionally, this program translates the AIX box1 capability 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 HP-UX terminfo library supports two nonstandard terminfo
+ capabilities, meml (memory lock) and memu (memory unlock). captoinfo
+ discards these with a warning message.
-
+ /etc/termcap
+ default termcap terminal capability database
- 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
+ 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.
-