- 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.
+ captoinfo [tic-option] [file ...]
- 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.
+ captoinfo-V
- -v print out tracing information on standard error as the program
- runs.
- -V print out the version of the program in use on standard error and
- exit.
-
- -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.
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
- 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
- -------------
- 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 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.
+ /etc/termcap
+ default termcap terminal capability database
-
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes tic briefly, but omits this
+ program.
+
+ SVr4 systems provide captoinfo as a separate application from tic. Its
+ -v option does not accept a trace level argument n; repeat -vn times
+ instead.
- This describes ncurses version 6.1 (patch 20190316).
+ NetBSD does not provide this application.
-