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31 .\" $Id: captoinfo.1m,v 1.50 2023/10/01 22:22:00 tom Exp $
32 .TH @CAPTOINFO@ 1M 2023-10-01 "ncurses 6.4" "User commands"
44 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP \-
45 convert a \fItermcap\fR description into a \fIterminfo\fR description
54 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP looks in each given text
55 \fIfile\fP for \fItermcap\fP descriptions.
57 it writes an equivalent \fIterminfo\fP description to the standard
59 \fItermcap\fP \fBtc\fP capabilities are translated directly to
60 \fIterminfo\fP \*(``\fBuse\fP\*('' capabilities.
62 If no \fIfile\fPs are specified,
63 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP interprets the content of the environment variable
64 \fB\%TERMCAP\fP as a file name,
65 and extracts only the entry for the terminal named in the environment
66 variable \fB\%TERM\fP from it.
67 If the environment variable \fB\%TERMCAP\fP is not set,
68 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP reads \fI\%\*d\fP.
70 This utility is implemented as a link to \fB\%@TIC@\fP(1M),
74 You can use other \fB\%@TIC@\fP options such as
81 .SS "Translations from nonstandard capabilities"
82 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP translates some obsolete,
83 nonstandard capabilities into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) \fIterminfo\fP
85 It issues a diagnostic to the standard error stream for each,
86 inviting the user to check that it has not mistakenly translated an
87 unknown or mistyped capability name.
93 Nonstandard Standard \& \f(BIterminfo\fP
94 name name From capability
96 BO mr AT&T enter_reverse_mode
97 CI vi AT&T cursor_invisible
98 CV ve AT&T cursor_normal
99 DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode
100 EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode
103 XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode
105 GE ae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode
106 GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode
109 PD kN XENIX key_npage
112 PU kP XENIX key_ppage
121 BC Sb Tek set_background
122 FC Sf Tek set_foreground
123 HS mh Iris enter_dim_mode
126 XENIX \fItermcap\fP had a set of extension capabilities,
127 corresponding to box drawing characters of CCSID
128 (\*(``code page\*('') 437,
140 G1 upper right corner
141 G4 lower right corner
142 GR tee pointing right
149 G6 double upper left corner
150 G7 double lower left corner
151 G5 double upper right corner
152 G8 double lower right corner
153 Gr double tee pointing right
154 Gr double tee pointing left
155 Gu double tee pointing up
156 Gd double tee pointing down
157 Gh double horizontal line
158 Gv double vertical line
159 Gc double intersection
160 .\" TODO: There are about 40 box drawing code points in CCSID 437;
161 .\" were there no XENIX capabilities for the mixed single- and double-
162 .\" line intersections?
164 .\" TODO: GG doesn't seem to fit with the others; explain it.
165 GG ACS magic cookie count
168 If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry,
169 they are composed into an \fBacsc\fP string.
170 The double-line capabilities and
171 \fBGG\fP are discarded with a warning message.
173 IBM's AIX has a \fIterminfo\fP facility descended from SVr1
175 but which is incompatible with the SVr4 format.
176 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP translates the following AIX extensions.
192 this program translates the AIX \fBbox1\fP capability to an \fBacsc\fP
195 The HP-UX \fIterminfo\fP library supports two nonstandard \fIterminfo\fP
197 \fBmeml\fP (memory lock) and \fBmemu\fP (memory unlock).
198 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP discards these with a warning message.
202 default \fItermcap\fP terminal capability database
204 The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's.
205 Under SVr4, instead of following
206 the \fB\-v\fP with a trace level \fIn\fP,
207 you repeat it \fIn\fP times.
209 X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes \fBtic\fP briefly,
210 but omits this program.
211 SVr4 systems provide \fB\%captoinfo\fP as a separate application from
214 NetBSD does not provide this application.
216 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
219 Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
221 \fB\%@INFOCMP@\fP(1M),
224 \fB\%terminfo\fP(\*n)