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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> [<STRONG>-1CEFGILTVcdegilnpqrtu</STRONG>]
+ <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> [<STRONG>-1CEFGILTUVcdegilnpqrtux</STRONG>]
[<STRONG>-v</STRONG> <EM>n</EM>] [<STRONG>-s</STRONG> <STRONG>d</STRONG>| <STRONG>i</STRONG>| <STRONG>l</STRONG>| <STRONG>c</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <STRONG>subset</STRONG>]
[<STRONG>-w</STRONG> <EM>width</EM>] [<STRONG>-A</STRONG> <EM>directory</EM>] [<STRONG>-B</STRONG> <EM>directory</EM>]
[<EM>termname</EM>...]
<STRONG>Default</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG>
If no options are specified and zero or one <EM>termnames</EM> are
specified, the <STRONG>-I</STRONG> option will be assumed. If more than
- one <EM>termname</EM> is specified, the <STRONG>-d</STRONG> option will be assumed.
+ one <EM>termname</EM> is specified, the <STRONG>-d</STRONG> option will be assumed.
<STRONG>Comparison</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG> <STRONG>[-d]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-c]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-n]</STRONG>
- <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> compares the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> description of the first
- terminal <EM>termname</EM> with each of the descriptions given by
- the entries for the other terminal's <EM>termnames</EM>. If a
- capability is defined for only one of the terminals, the
- value returned will depend on the type of the capability:
- <STRONG>F</STRONG> for boolean variables, <STRONG>-1</STRONG> for integer variables, and
+ <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> compares the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> description of the first
+ terminal <EM>termname</EM> with each of the descriptions given by
+ the entries for the other terminal's <EM>termnames</EM>. If a
+ capability is defined for only one of the terminals, the
+ value returned will depend on the type of the capability:
+ <STRONG>F</STRONG> for boolean variables, <STRONG>-1</STRONG> for integer variables, and
<STRONG>NULL</STRONG> for string variables.
- The <STRONG>-d</STRONG> option produces a list of each capability that is
- different between two entries. This option is useful to
- show the difference between two entries, created by dif-
+ The <STRONG>-d</STRONG> option produces a list of each capability that is
+ different between two entries. This option is useful to
+ show the difference between two entries, created by dif-
ferent people, for the same or similar terminals.
- The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option produces a list of each capability that is
+ The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option produces a list of each capability that is
common between two entries. Capabilities that are not set
- are ignored. This option can be used as a quick check to
+ are ignored. This option can be used as a quick check to
see if the <STRONG>-u</STRONG> option is worth using.
- The <STRONG>-n</STRONG> option produces a list of each capability that is
+ The <STRONG>-n</STRONG> option produces a list of each capability that is
in neither entry. If no <EM>termnames</EM> are given, the environ-
ment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> will be used for both of the <EM>termnames</EM>.
- This can be used as a quick check to see if anything was
+ This can be used as a quick check to see if anything was
left out of a description.
<STRONG>Source</STRONG> <STRONG>Listing</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG> <STRONG>[-I]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-L]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-C]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-r]</STRONG>
- The <STRONG>-I</STRONG>, <STRONG>-L</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-C</STRONG> options will produce a source listing
+ The <STRONG>-I</STRONG>, <STRONG>-L</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-C</STRONG> options will produce a source listing
for each terminal named.
<STRONG>-I</STRONG> use the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> names
-
<STRONG>-L</STRONG> use the long C variable name listed in <<STRONG>term.h</STRONG>>
<STRONG>-C</STRONG> use the <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> names
<STRONG>-r</STRONG> when using <STRONG>-C</STRONG>, put out all capabilities in <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> form
- If no <EM>termnames</EM> are given, the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>
+ If no <EM>termnames</EM> are given, the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>
will be used for the terminal name.
- The source produced by the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option may be used directly
- as a <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> entry, but not all parameterized strings can
+ The source produced by the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option may be used directly
+ as a <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> entry, but not all parameterized strings can
be changed to the <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> format. <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> will attempt to
- convert most of the parameterized information, and any-
- thing not converted will be plainly marked in the output
+ convert most of the parameterized information, and any-
+ thing not converted will be plainly marked in the output
and commented out. These should be edited by hand.
- All padding information for strings will be collected
- together and placed at the beginning of the string where
- <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> expects it. Mandatory padding (padding informa-
+ All padding information for strings will be collected
+ together and placed at the beginning of the string where
+ <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> expects it. Mandatory padding (padding informa-
tion with a trailing '/') will become optional.
All <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> variables no longer supported by <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>, but
which are derivable from other <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> variables, will be
output. Not all <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> capabilities will be translated;
- only those variables which were part of <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> will nor-
- mally be output. Specifying the <STRONG>-r</STRONG> option will take off
- this restriction, allowing all capabilities to be output
+ only those variables which were part of <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> will nor-
+ mally be output. Specifying the <STRONG>-r</STRONG> option will take off
+ this restriction, allowing all capabilities to be output
in <EM>termcap</EM> form.
Note that because padding is collected to the beginning of
- the capability, not all capabilities are output. Manda-
- tory padding is not supported. Because <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> strings
- are not as flexible, it is not always possible to convert
- a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> string capability into an equivalent <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>
- format. A subsequent conversion of the <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> file back
- into <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> format will not necessarily reproduce the
+ the capability, not all capabilities are output. Manda-
+ tory padding is not supported. Because <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> strings
+ are not as flexible, it is not always possible to convert
+ a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> string capability into an equivalent <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>
+ format. A subsequent conversion of the <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> file back
+ into <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> format will not necessarily reproduce the
original <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> source.
- Some common <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> parameter sequences, their <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>
- equivalents, and some terminal types which commonly have
+ Some common <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> parameter sequences, their <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>
+ equivalents, and some terminal types which commonly have
such sequences, are:
<STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> Representative Terminals
<STRONG>%p2</STRONG> is printed before <STRONG>%p1</STRONG> <STRONG>%r</STRONG> hp
<STRONG>Use=</STRONG> <STRONG>Option</STRONG> <STRONG>[-u]</STRONG>
- The <STRONG>-u</STRONG> option produces a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> source description of
- the first terminal <EM>termname</EM> which is relative to the sum
- of the descriptions given by the entries for the other
- terminals <EM>termnames</EM>. It does this by analyzing the
- differences between the first <EM>termname</EM> and the other
+ The <STRONG>-u</STRONG> option produces a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> source description of
+ the first terminal <EM>termname</EM> which is relative to the sum
+ of the descriptions given by the entries for the other
+ terminals <EM>termnames</EM>. It does this by analyzing the dif-
+ ferences between the first <EM>termname</EM> and the other
<EM>termnames</EM> and producing a description with <STRONG>use=</STRONG> fields for
- the other terminals. In this manner, it is possible to
- retrofit generic terminfo entries into a terminal's
+ the other terminals. In this manner, it is possible to
+ retrofit generic terminfo entries into a terminal's
description. Or, if two similar terminals exist, but were
- coded at different times or by different people so that
+ coded at different times or by different people so that
each description is a full description, using <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> will
show what can be done to change one description to be rel-
ative to the other.
A capability will get printed with an at-sign (@) if it no
- longer exists in the first <EM>termname</EM>, but one of the other
- <EM>termname</EM> entries contains a value for it. A capability's
- value gets printed if the value in the first <EM>termname</EM> is
- not found in any of the other <EM>termname</EM> entries, or if the
+ longer exists in the first <EM>termname</EM>, but one of the other
+ <EM>termname</EM> entries contains a value for it. A capability's
+ value gets printed if the value in the first <EM>termname</EM> is
+ not found in any of the other <EM>termname</EM> entries, or if the
first of the other <EM>termname</EM> entries that has this capabil-
- ity gives a different value for the capability than that
+ ity gives a different value for the capability than that
in the first <EM>termname</EM>.
- The order of the other <EM>termname</EM> entries is significant.
- Since the terminfo compiler <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does a left-to-right scan
+ The order of the other <EM>termname</EM> entries is significant.
+ Since the terminfo compiler <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does a left-to-right scan
of the capabilities, specifying two <STRONG>use=</STRONG> entries that con-
tain differing entries for the same capabilities will pro-
- duce different results depending on the order that the
- entries are given in. <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> will flag any such incon-
- sistencies between the other <EM>termname</EM> entries as they are
+ duce different results depending on the order that the
+ entries are given in. <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> will flag any such incon-
+ sistencies between the other <EM>termname</EM> entries as they are
found.
- Alternatively, specifying a capability <EM>after</EM> a <STRONG>use=</STRONG> entry
+ Alternatively, specifying a capability <EM>after</EM> a <STRONG>use=</STRONG> entry
that contains that capability will cause the second speci-
- fication to be ignored. Using <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> to recreate a
+ fication to be ignored. Using <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> to recreate a
description can be a useful check to make sure that every-
- thing was specified correctly in the original source
+ thing was specified correctly in the original source
description.
- Another error that does not cause incorrect compiled
- files, but will slow down the compilation time, is speci-
- fying extra <STRONG>use=</STRONG> fields that are superfluous. <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>
- will flag any other <EM>termname</EM> <EM>use=</EM> fields that were not
+ Another error that does not cause incorrect compiled
+ files, but will slow down the compilation time, is speci-
+ fying extra <STRONG>use=</STRONG> fields that are superfluous. <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>
+ will flag any other <EM>termname</EM> <EM>use=</EM> fields that were not
needed.
<STRONG>Changing</STRONG> <STRONG>Databases</STRONG> <STRONG>[-A</STRONG> <EM>directory</EM>] [-B <EM>directory</EM>]
- The location of the compiled <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database is taken
- from the environment variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> . If the variable
+ The location of the compiled <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database is taken
+ from the environment variable <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG> . If the variable
is not defined, or the terminal is not found in that loca-
- tion, the system <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database, in <STRONG>/usr/share/ter-</STRONG>
+ tion, the system <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database, in <STRONG>/usr/share/ter-</STRONG>
<STRONG>minfo</STRONG>, will be used. The options <STRONG>-A</STRONG> and <STRONG>-B</STRONG> may be used to
- override this location. The <STRONG>-A</STRONG> option will set <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>
+ override this location. The <STRONG>-A</STRONG> option will set <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>
for the first <EM>termname</EM> and the <STRONG>-B</STRONG> option will set <STRONG>TERMINFO</STRONG>
- for the other <EM>termnames</EM>. With this, it is possible to
- compare descriptions for a terminal with the same name
- located in two different databases. This is useful for
- comparing descriptions for the same terminal created by
+ for the other <EM>termnames</EM>. With this, it is possible to
+ compare descriptions for a terminal with the same name
+ located in two different databases. This is useful for
+ comparing descriptions for the same terminal created by
different people.
<STRONG>Other</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG>
- <STRONG>-1</STRONG> causes the fields to be printed out one to a line.
- Otherwise, the fields will be printed several to a
+ <STRONG>-1</STRONG> causes the fields to be printed out one to a line.
+ Otherwise, the fields will be printed several to a
line to a maximum width of 60 characters.
- <STRONG>-a</STRONG> tells <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> to retain commented-out capabilities
- rather than discarding them. Capabilities are com-
+ <STRONG>-a</STRONG> tells <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> to retain commented-out capabilities
+ rather than discarding them. Capabilities are com-
mented by prefixing them with a period.
<STRONG>-E</STRONG> Dump the capabilities of the given terminal as
- tables, needed in the C initializer for a TERMTYPE
- structure (the terminal capability structure in the
- <STRONG><term.h></STRONG>). This option is useful for preparing ver-
- sions of the curses library hardwired for a given
- terminal type. The tables are all declared static,
- and are named according to the type and the name of
+ tables, needed in the C initializer for a TERMTYPE
+ structure (the terminal capability structure in the
+ <STRONG><term.h></STRONG>). This option is useful for preparing ver-
+ sions of the curses library hardwired for a given
+ terminal type. The tables are all declared static,
+ and are named according to the type and the name of
the corresponding terminal entry.
- Before ncurses 5.0, the split between the <STRONG>-e</STRONG> and <STRONG>-E</STRONG>
- options was not needed; but support for extended
+ Before ncurses 5.0, the split between the <STRONG>-e</STRONG> and <STRONG>-E</STRONG>
+ options was not needed; but support for extended
names required making the arrays of terminal capabil-
ities separate from the TERMTYPE structure.
- <STRONG>-e</STRONG> Dump the capabilities of the given terminal as a C
- initializer for a TERMTYPE structure (the terminal
- capability structure in the <STRONG><term.h></STRONG>). This option
+ <STRONG>-e</STRONG> Dump the capabilities of the given terminal as a C
+ initializer for a TERMTYPE structure (the terminal
+ capability structure in the <STRONG><term.h></STRONG>). This option
is useful for preparing versions of the curses
library hardwired for a given terminal type.
- <STRONG>-F</STRONG> compare terminfo files. This assumes that two fol-
- lowing arguments are filenames. The files are
- searched for pairwise matches between entries, with
+ <STRONG>-F</STRONG> compare terminfo files. This assumes that two fol-
+ lowing arguments are filenames. The files are
+ searched for pairwise matches between entries, with
two entries considered to match if any of their names
- do. The report printed to standard output lists
- entries with no matches in the other file, and
- entries with more than one match. For entries with
- exactly one match it includes a difference report.
- Normally, to reduce the volume of the report, use
- references are not resolved before looking for dif-
+ do. The report printed to standard output lists
+ entries with no matches in the other file, and
+ entries with more than one match. For entries with
+ exactly one match it includes a difference report.
+ Normally, to reduce the volume of the report, use
+ references are not resolved before looking for dif-
ferences, but resolution can be forced by also speci-
fying <STRONG>-r</STRONG>.
- <STRONG>-f</STRONG> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
+ <STRONG>-f</STRONG> Display complex terminfo strings which contain
if/then/else/endif expressions indented for readabil-
ity.
<STRONG>-G</STRONG> Display constant literals in decimal form rather than
their character equivalents.
- <STRONG>-g</STRONG> Display constant character literals in quoted form
+ <STRONG>-g</STRONG> Display constant character literals in quoted form
rather than their decimal equivalents.
<STRONG>-i</STRONG> Analyze the initialization (<STRONG>is1</STRONG>, <STRONG>is2</STRONG>, <STRONG>is3</STRONG>), and reset
- (<STRONG>rs1</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs2</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs3</STRONG>), strings in the entry. For each
- string, the code tries to analyze it into actions in
+ (<STRONG>rs1</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs2</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs3</STRONG>), strings in the entry. For each
+ string, the code tries to analyze it into actions in
terms of the other capabilities in the entry, certain
- X3.64/ISO 6429/ECMA-48 capabilities, and certain DEC
- VT-series private modes (the set of recognized spe-
- cial sequences has been selected for completeness
- over the existing terminfo database). Each report
- line consists of the capability name, followed by a
+ X3.64/ISO 6429/ECMA-48 capabilities, and certain DEC
+ VT-series private modes (the set of recognized spe-
+ cial sequences has been selected for completeness
+ over the existing terminfo database). Each report
+ line consists of the capability name, followed by a
colon and space, followed by a printable expansion of
- the capability string with sections matching recog-
- nized actions translated into {}-bracketed descrip-
- tions. Here is a list of the DEC/ANSI special
- sequences recognized:
+ the capability string with sections matching recog-
+ nized actions translated into {}-bracketed descrip-
+ tions. Here is a list of the DEC/ANSI special
+ sequences recognized: i.
Action Meaning
-----------------------------------------
RC restore cursor
LL home-down
RSR reset scroll region
-
+ -----------------------------------------
+ DECSTR soft reset (VT320)
+ S7C1T 7-bit controls (VT220)
+ -----------------------------------------
ISO DEC G0 enable DEC graphics for G0
ISO UK G0 enable UK chars for G0
ISO US G0 enable US chars for G0
ISO DEC G1 enable DEC graphics for G1
ISO UK G1 enable UK chars for G1
ISO US G1 enable US chars for G1
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+ -----------------------------------------
DECPAM application keypad mode
DECPNM normal keypad mode
DECANSI enter ANSI mode
-
+ -----------------------------------------
+ ECMA[+-]AM keyboard action mode
+ ECMA[+-]IRM insert replace mode
+ ECMA[+-]SRM send receive mode
+ ECMA[+-]LNM linefeed mode
+ -----------------------------------------
DEC[+-]CKM application cursor keys
DEC[+-]ANM set VT52 mode
DEC[+-]COLM 132-column mode
+
DEC[+-]SCLM smooth scroll
DEC[+-]SCNM reverse video mode
DEC[+-]OM origin mode
DEC[+-]AWM wraparound mode
DEC[+-]ARM auto-repeat mode
- It also recognizes a SGR action corresponding to
- ANSI/ISO 6429/ECMA Set Graphics Rendition, with the
- values NORMAL, BOLD, UNDERLINE, BLINK, and REVERSE.
- All but NORMAL may be prefixed with `+' (turn on) or
+ It also recognizes a SGR action corresponding to
+ ANSI/ISO 6429/ECMA Set Graphics Rendition, with the
+ values NORMAL, BOLD, UNDERLINE, BLINK, and REVERSE.
+ All but NORMAL may be prefixed with `+' (turn on) or
`-' (turn off).
- An SGR0 designates an empty highlight sequence
- (equivalent to {SGR:NORMAL}).
- -
- l Set output format to terminfo.
+ An SGR0 designates an empty highlight sequence (equivalent
+ to {SGR:NORMAL}).
+
+ <STRONG>-l</STRONG> Set output format to terminfo.
<STRONG>-p</STRONG> Ignore padding specifications when comparing strings.
Normally when translating from terminfo to termcap,
untranslatable capabilities are commented-out.
+ <STRONG>-U</STRONG> tells <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> to not post-process the data after
+ parsing the source file. This feature helps when
+ comparing the actual contents of two source files,
+ since it excludes the inferences that <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> makes
+ to fill in missing data.
+
<STRONG>-V</STRONG> reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
program, and exits.
<STRONG>-w</STRONG> <EM>width</EM>
changes the output to <EM>width</EM> characters.
+ <STRONG>-x</STRONG> print information for user-defined capabilities.
+ These are extensions to the terminfo repertoire which
+ can be loaded using the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option of <STRONG>tic</STRONG>.
+
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<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
- /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description
- database.
+ /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description data-
+ base.
</PRE>
The <STRONG>-r</STRONG> option's notion of `termcap' capabilities is System
V Release 4's. Actual BSD curses versions will have a
- more restricted set. To see only the 4.4BSD set, use -r
- -RBSD.
+ more restricted set. To see only the 4.4BSD set, use <STRONG>-r</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>-RBSD</STRONG>.
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<H2>BUGS</H2><PRE>
- The
-F option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> should be a <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG> mode.
+ The
<STRONG>-F</STRONG> option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> should be a <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG> mode.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>,
- <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+ <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>,
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.7 (patch 20100918).
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
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