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31 .\" $Id: captoinfo.1m,v 1.51 2023/10/07 21:19:07 tom Exp $
32 .TH @CAPTOINFO@ 1M 2023-10-07 "ncurses 6.4" "User commands"
50 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP \-
51 convert a \fItermcap\fR description into a \fIterminfo\fR description
60 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP looks in each given text
61 \fIfile\fP for \fItermcap\fP descriptions.
63 it writes an equivalent \fIterminfo\fP description to the standard
65 \fItermcap\fP \fBtc\fP capabilities are translated directly to
66 \fIterminfo\fP \*(``\fBuse\fP\*('' capabilities.
68 If no \fIfile\fPs are specified,
69 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP interprets the content of the environment variable
70 \fB\%TERMCAP\fP as a file name,
71 and extracts only the entry for the terminal named in the environment
72 variable \fB\%TERM\fP from it.
73 If the environment variable \fB\%TERMCAP\fP is not set,
74 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP reads \fI\%\*d\fP.
76 This utility is implemented as a link to \fB\%@TIC@\fP(1M),
80 You can use other \fB\%@TIC@\fP options such as
87 .SS "Translations from nonstandard capabilities"
88 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP translates some obsolete,
89 nonstandard capabilities into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) \fIterminfo\fP
91 It issues a diagnostic to the standard error stream for each,
92 inviting the user to check that it has not mistakenly translated an
93 unknown or mistyped capability name.
99 Nonstandard Standard \& \f(BIterminfo\fP
100 name name From capability
102 BO mr AT&T enter_reverse_mode
103 CI vi AT&T cursor_invisible
104 CV ve AT&T cursor_normal
105 DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode
106 EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode
109 XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode
111 GE ae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode
112 GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode
115 PD kN XENIX key_npage
118 PU kP XENIX key_ppage
127 BC Sb Tek set_background
128 FC Sf Tek set_foreground
129 HS mh Iris enter_dim_mode
132 XENIX \fItermcap\fP had a set of extension capabilities,
133 corresponding to box drawing characters of CCSID
134 (\*(``code page\*('') 437,
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 If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry,
175 they are composed into an \fBacsc\fP string.
176 The double-line capabilities and
177 \fBGG\fP are discarded with a warning message.
179 IBM's AIX has a \fIterminfo\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 \fIterminfo\fP library supports two nonstandard \fIterminfo\fP
203 \fBmeml\fP (memory lock) and \fBmemu\fP (memory unlock).
204 \fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP discards these with a warning message.
208 default \fItermcap\fP terminal capability database
210 The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's.
211 Under SVr4, instead of following
212 the \fB\-v\fP with a trace level \fIn\fP,
213 you repeat it \fIn\fP times.
215 X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes \fBtic\fP briefly,
216 but omits this program.
217 SVr4 systems provide \fB\%captoinfo\fP as a separate application from
220 NetBSD does not provide this application.
222 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
225 Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
227 \fB\%@INFOCMP@\fP(1M),
230 \fB\%terminfo\fP(\*n)