+ /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description database.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
+ Although System V Release 2 provided a terminfo library, it had no
+ documented tool for decompiling the terminal descriptions. Tony Hansen
+ (AT&T) wrote the first <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> in early 1984, for System V Release 3.
+
+ Eric Raymond used the AT&T documentation in 1995 to provide an
+ equivalent <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> for ncurses. In addition, he added a few new
+ features such as:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the <STRONG>-e</STRONG> option, to support <EM>fallback</EM> (compiled-in) terminal
+ descriptions
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the <STRONG>-i</STRONG> option, to help with analysis
+
+ Later, Thomas Dickey added the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> (user-defined capabilities) option,
+ and the <STRONG>-E</STRONG> option to support fallback entries with user-defined
+ capabilities.
+
+ For a complete list, see the <EM>EXTENSIONS</EM> section.
+
+ In 2010, Roy Marples provided an <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> program for NetBSD. It is
+ less capable than the SVr4 or ncurses versions (e.g., it lacks the
+ sorting options documented in X/Open), but does include the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option
+ adapted from ncurses.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) provides a description of <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>. It
+ does not mention the options used for converting to termcap format.