X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcaptoinfo.1m.html;h=aef465186d54e96f5b19ec713da78734b53bebb5;hb=761e4f0825b330e970558e82a4bd638383914429;hp=b980f1d626ffc474f205b228d85bbdd2cfedb2ca;hpb=82a087c4c47679fcfa59bb6d7bdbe587355ba3f6;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html b/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html index b980f1d6..aef46518 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html +++ b/doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ - +
@@ -59,25 +59,26 @@- 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. + 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 + 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 + 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 + -v print out tracing information on standard error as the program runs. - -V print out the version of the program in use on stan- + -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- + -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. @@ -86,21 +87,20 @@
- /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description - database. + /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description data- + base.
- 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 + 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 ----------------------------------------------- @@ -134,11 +134,10 @@ 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 + 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 ----------------------------- G2 upper left @@ -165,14 +164,14 @@ 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 + 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 ter- - minfo but incompatible with the SVr4 format. The following - AIX extensions are automatically translated: + minfo but incompatible with the SVr4 format. The follow- + ing AIX extensions are automatically translated: IBM XSI ------------- @@ -183,22 +182,22 @@ font2 s2ds font3 s3ds - Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automati- + Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automati- cally 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 + 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.
- This utility is actually a link to tic(1m), running in -I + 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. @@ -206,12 +205,13 @@SEE ALSO
infocmp(1m), curses(3x), terminfo(5) - This describes ncurses version 5.6 (patch 20070303). + This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20130518).AUTHOR
- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> + Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and + Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>