X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcaptoinfo.1m.html;h=3d9aae2b6e1d04115a9143a3418a0cd2aa533698;hb=493e2f7b3fc309879f561a094fdfc15e5304b3d6;hp=1e2e11a76cbd33c6a83bca870393eac06fd802fe;hpb=a0b91dc27f0c411e343161b0a4b5459d15a43f85;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html b/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html index 1e2e11a7..3d9aae2b 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html +++ b/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ -
- +-captoinfo(1m) captoinfo(1m) +captoinfo(1m) captoinfo(1m) --
- captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo - description +
+ captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description --
- captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file . . . +
+ captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file ... --
- 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 stan- - dard error and exit. - - -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. +
+ 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 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 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. --
- /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description data- - base. +
+ /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description database. --
- 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 - random capability and/or syntax error. +
+ 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 @@ -116,12 +107,12 @@ 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 @@ -134,9 +125,9 @@ FC Sf Tek set_foreground HS mh Iris enter_dim_mode - 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: + 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 ----------------------------- @@ -164,14 +155,13 @@ 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 warn- - ing 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 warning message. - 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'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 ------------- @@ -182,40 +172,43 @@ font2 s2ds font3 s3ds - Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automati- - cally translated to an acsc string. + Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automatically translated + to an acsc string. - 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. + 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. +
+ 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. + The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of + following the -v with a trace level n, you repeat it n times. --
+
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes tic briefly, but omits this + program. SVr4 systems provide captoinfo as a separate application from + tic. + + NetBSD does not provide this application. + + +
infocmp(1m), curses(3x), terminfo(5) - This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20151024). + This describes ncurses version 6.2 (patch 20210821). --
+
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> - captoinfo(1m) + captoinfo(1m)