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31 .\" $Id: captoinfo.1m,v 1.54 2023/11/25 14:32:36 tom Exp $
32 .TH @CAPTOINFO@ 1M 2023-11-25 "ncurses 6.4" "User commands"
49 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP \-
50 convert a \fItermcap\fR description into a \fIterminfo\fR description
59 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP translates terminal descriptions.
60 It looks in each given text \fIfile\fP for \fI\%termcap\fP entries and,
62 writes an equivalent \fI\%terminfo\fP description to the standard output
64 \fI\%termcap\fP \fBtc\fP capabilities translate to \fI\%terminfo\fP
65 \*(``\fBuse\fP\*('' capabilities.
67 If no \fIfile\fPs are specified,
68 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP interprets the content of the environment variable
69 \fI\%TERMCAP\fP as a file name,
70 and extracts only the entry for the terminal named in the environment
71 variable \fITERM\fP from it.
72 If the environment variable \fI\%TERMCAP\fP is not set,
73 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP reads \fI\%\*d\fP.
75 This utility is implemented as a link to \fB\%@TIC@\fP(1M),
79 You can use other \fB\%@TIC@\fP options such as
86 The \fB\-V\fP option reports the version of \fI\%ncurses\fP associated
87 with this program and exits with a successful status.
88 .SS "Translations from nonstandard capabilities"
89 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP translates some obsolete,
90 nonstandard capabilities into standard
92 \fI\%terminfo\fP capabilities.
93 It issues a diagnostic to the standard error stream for each,
94 inviting the user to check that it has not mistakenly translated an
95 unknown or mistyped capability name.
102 Obsolete Standard Origin \f(BIterminfo\fP capability
104 BO mr AT&T enter_reverse_mode
105 CI vi AT&T cursor_invisible
106 CV ve AT&T cursor_normal
107 DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode
108 EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode
111 XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode
113 GE ae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode
114 GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode
117 PD kN XENIX key_npage
120 PU kP XENIX key_ppage
123 KA k; Tektronix key_f10
124 KB F1 Tektronix key_f11
125 KC F2 Tektronix key_f12
126 KD F3 Tektronix key_f13
127 KE F4 Tektronix key_f14
128 KF F5 Tektronix key_f15
129 BC Sb Tektronix set_background
130 FC Sf Tektronix set_foreground
131 HS mh IRIX enter_dim_mode
134 XENIX \fI\%termcap\fP had a set of extension capabilities,
135 corresponding to box drawing characters of CCSID
136 (\*(``code page\*('') 437,
142 \f(BItermcap\fP Name Graphic
146 G1 upper right corner
147 G4 lower right corner
148 GR tee pointing right
155 G6 double upper left corner
156 G7 double lower left corner
157 G5 double upper right corner
158 G8 double lower right corner
159 Gr double tee pointing right
160 Gr double tee pointing left
161 Gu double tee pointing up
162 Gd double tee pointing down
163 Gh double horizontal line
164 Gv double vertical line
165 Gc double intersection
166 .\" TODO: There are about 40 box drawing code points in CCSID 437;
167 .\" were there no XENIX capabilities for the mixed single- and double-
168 .\" line intersections?
170 .\" TODO: GG doesn't seem to fit with the others; explain it.
171 GG ACS magic cookie count
174 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP composes single-line capabilities into an \fBacsc\fP
176 and discards \fBGG\fP and double-line capabilities with a warning
179 IBM's AIX has a \fI\%terminfo\fP facility descended from SVr1
181 but which is incompatible with the SVr4 format.
182 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP translates the following AIX extensions.
198 this program translates the AIX \fBbox1\fP capability to an \fBacsc\fP
201 The HP-UX \fI\%terminfo\fP library supports two nonstandard
202 \fI\%terminfo\fP capabilities,
203 \fBmeml\fP (memory lock) and \fBmemu\fP (memory unlock).
204 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP discards these with a warning message.
208 default \fI\%termcap\fP terminal capability database
210 The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's.
212 instead of following the \fB\-v\fP with a trace level \fIn\fP,
213 you repeat it \fIn\fP times.
216 Issue 7 (2009) describes \fBtic\fP briefly,
217 but omits this program.
218 SVr4 systems provide \fB\%captoinfo\fP as a separate application from
221 NetBSD does not provide this application.
223 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
226 Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible\-island.net>
228 \fB\%@INFOCMP@\fP(1M),