- captoinfo looks in file for termcap descriptions. For
- each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is
- written to standard output. Termcap tc capabilities are
- translated directly to terminfo 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
+ captoinfo looks in each given text file for termcap
+ descriptions. For each one found, an equivalent terminfo
+ description is written to standard output. Termcap tc
+ capabilities are translated directly to terminfo use capa-
+ bilities.
+
+ 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 speci-
+ fied 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.
- -V print out the version of the program in use on
- standard error and exit.
+ -V print out the version of the program in use on stan-
+ dard 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.
+ -1 cause the fields to print out one to a line. Other-
+ wise, the fields will be printed several to a line to
+ a maximum width of 60 characters.
- -w change the output to width 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
+ Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically
+ be translated into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo
+ capabilities by captoinfo. Whenever one of these auto-
+ matic 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
+ has not mistakenly translated a completely unknown and
random capability and/or syntax error.
+
Nonstd Std From Terminfo
name name capability
-----------------------------------------------
@@ -65,13 +110,13 @@
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
@@ -90,9 +135,10 @@
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:
+ XENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capa-
+ bilities for forms drawing, designed to take advantage of
+ the IBM PC high-half graphics. They were as follows:
+
Cap Graphic
-----------------------------
@@ -120,14 +166,14 @@
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.
+ 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 warn-
+ ing 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's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 ter-
+ minfo but incompatible with the SVr4 format. The follow-
+ ing AIX extensions are automatically translated:
IBM XSI
-------------
@@ -136,50 +182,43 @@
font0 s0ds
font1 s1ds
font2 s2ds
+
font3 s3ds
- Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be
- automatically translated to an acsc string.
+ Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automati-
+ cally 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.
+ Hewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstan-
+ dard terminfo capabilities meml (memory lock) and memu
+ (memory unlock). These will be discarded with a warning
+ message.
NOTES
- This utility is actually a link to tic(1m), running in -I
- mode. You can use other tic options such as -f and -x.
+ 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 isn't identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4,
- instead of following the -v with a trace level n, you
+ 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.
- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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+ Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
+ Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
+ captoinfo(1m)