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30 # $Id: capconvert,v 1.12 2022/07/16 21:00:27 tom Exp $
32 # capconvert -- automated conversion from termcap to terminfo
35 echo "This script tries to automatically set you up so that your applications"
36 echo "that now use termcap can use terminfo and the ncurses library."
39 # Note, except for telling if we're running under xterm we don't use TERM at
40 # all. This is because BSD users not infrequently have multiple termtypes
41 # selected by conditionals in tset -- unless they're xterm users, in which
42 # case they're on a workstation and probably don't.
44 # Check to make sure TERMINFO is not already defined
45 if test -n "$TERMINFO"
47 echo "TERMINFO is already defined in your environment. This means"
48 echo "you already have a local terminfo tree, so you do not need any"
50 if test ! -d "$TERMINFO" ; then
51 echo "Caution: TERMINFO does not point to a directory!"
56 # Check to see if terminfo is present in one of the standard locations.
60 /usr/share/lib/terminfo \
62 /usr/local/lib/terminfo \
63 /usr/local/share/terminfo
65 if test -d "$p" ; then
71 if test $terminfo = yes
73 echo "Your system already has a system-wide terminfo tree."
77 echo "You have no TERMCAP variable set, so we are done."
78 # Assumes the terminfo master covers all canned terminal types
83 echo "You are running xterm, which usually sets TERMCAP itself."
84 echo "We can ignore this, because terminfo knows about xterm."
85 echo "So you will just use the system-wide terminfo tree."
89 echo "We will have to make a local one for you anyway, to capture the effect"
90 echo "of your TERMCAP variable."
94 echo "No system-wide terminfo tree. We will make you a local one."
98 # Check if test -x works (it is not portable, but useful)
100 TMP=test$$; touch $TMP && chmod 755 $TMP
101 if test $OPT $TMP ; then
103 test $OPT $TMP && OPT="-f"
109 # First step -- go find tic
111 IFS="${IFS= }"; save_ifs="$IFS"; IFS="${IFS}:"
114 if test "$OPT" "$x"/tic
124 echo "I see tic at $TIC."
127 if test $OPT ../misc/shlib ; then
128 TIC="../misc/shlib $TIC"
133 echo "You do not have tic installed anywhere I can see, please fix that."
138 # We have tic. Either there's no system terminfo tree or there is one but
139 # the user has a TERMCAP variable that may modify a stock description.
142 # Make the user a terminfo directory
143 if test -d "$HOME"/.terminfo
145 echo "It appears you already have a private terminfo directory"
146 echo "at $HOME/.terminfo; this seems odd, because TERMINFO"
147 echo "is not defined. I am not going to second-guess this -- if you"
148 echo "really want me to try auto-configuring for you, remove or"
149 echo "rename $HOME/terminfo and run me again."
152 echo "I am creating your private terminfo directory at $HOME/.terminfo"
153 mkdir "$HOME"/.terminfo
154 # Ensure that that's where tic's compilation results.
155 # This isn't strictly necessary with a 1.9.7 or later tic.
156 TERMINFO="$HOME/.terminfo"; export TERMINFO
160 # Find a terminfo source to work from
161 if test -f ../misc/terminfo.src
163 echo "I see the terminfo master source is handy; I will use that."
164 master=../misc/terminfo.src
166 # Ooops...looks like we're running from somewhere other than the
167 # progs directory of an ncurses source tree.
168 master=`find "$HOME" -name "*terminfo.src" -print`
169 mcount=`find "$HOME" -name "*terminfo.src" | wc -l`
172 echo "I can not find a terminfo source file anywhere under your home directory."
173 echo "There should be a file called terminfo.src somewhere in your"
174 echo "ncurses distribution; please put it in your home directotry"
175 echo "and run me again (it does not have to live there permanently)."
179 echo "I see a file called $master."
180 echo "I am going to assume this is the terminfo source included with"
181 echo "the ncurses distribution. If this assumption is wrong, please"
182 echo "interrupt me now! OK to continue?"
186 echo "I see more than one possible terminfo source. Here they are:"
187 echo "$master" | sed "/^/s// /";
190 echo "Please tell me which one to use:"
196 echo "That file does not exist. Try again?";
204 # Now that we have a master, compile it into the local tree
205 echo "OK, now I will make your private terminfo tree. This may take a bit..."
207 # Kluge alert: we compile terminfo.src in two pieces because a lot of machines
208 # with < 16MB RAM choke on tic's core-hog habits.
209 trap 'rm -f tsplit$$.*; exit 1' 1 2 3 15
210 trap 'rm -f tsplit$$.*' 0
212 -e '1,/SPLIT HERE/w 'tsplit$$.01 \
213 -e '/SPLIT HERE/,$w 'tsplit$$.02 \
215 for x in tsplit$$.*; do eval $TIC "$x"; done
217 trap EXIT INT QUIT TERM HUP
219 echo "You now have a private tree under $HOME/.terminfo;"
220 echo "the ncurses library will automatically read from it,"
221 echo "and ncurses tic will automatically compile entries to it."
223 # We're done unless user has a .termcap file or equivalent named by TERMCAP
224 if test -z "$TERMCAP"
226 echo "You have no TERMCAP set, so we are done."
229 # OK, here comes the nasty case...user has a TERMCAP. Instead of
230 # trying to follow all the convolutions of the relationship between
231 # TERM and TERMCAP (partly because it is too painful, and partly because
232 # we don't actually know what TERM will be nor even if it always has
233 # the same value for this user) we do the following three steps...
235 if test -f "$HOME"/.termcap
237 echo "I see you have a \$HOME/.termcap file. I will compile that."
238 eval $TIC "$HOME"/.termcap
240 echo "Note that editing $HOME/.termcap will no longer change the data curses sees."
241 elif test -f "$TERMCAP"
243 echo "Your TERMCAP names the file $TERMCAP. I will compile that."
246 echo "Note that editing $TERMCAP will no longer change the data curses sees."
248 echo "Your TERMCAP value appears to be an entry in termcap format."
249 echo "I will compile it."
250 echo "$TERMCAP" >myterm$$
254 echo "Note that editing TERMCAP will no longer change the data curses sees."
256 echo "To do that, decompile the terminal description you want with infocmp(1),"
257 echo "edit to taste, and recompile using tic(1)."
259 # capconvert ends here