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- * @Id: captoinfo.1m,v 1.51 2023/10/07 21:19:07 tom Exp @
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* TODO: There are about 40 box drawing code points in CCSID 437;
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<STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG> User commands <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>
This utility is implemented as a link to <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, with the latter's <STRONG>-I</STRONG>
option implied. You can use other <STRONG>tic</STRONG> options such as <STRONG>-1</STRONG>, <STRONG>-f</STRONG>, <STRONG>-v</STRONG>, <STRONG>-w</STRONG>,
- and <STRONG>-x</STRONG>.
+ and <STRONG>-x</STRONG>. The <STRONG>-V</STRONG> option reports the version of <EM>ncurses</EM> associated with
+ this program and exits with a successful status.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Translations-from-nonstandard-capabilities">Translations from nonstandard capabilities</a></H3><PRE>
<STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> translates some obsolete, nonstandard capabilities into
- standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) <EM>terminfo</EM> capabilities. It issues a
- diagnostic to the standard error stream for each, inviting the user to
- check that it has not mistakenly translated an unknown or mistyped
+ standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) <EM>terminfo</EM> capabilities. It issues a
+ diagnostic to the standard error stream for each, inviting the user to
+ check that it has not mistakenly translated an unknown or mistyped
capability name.
<STRONG>Nonstandard</STRONG> <STRONG>Standard</STRONG> <EM>t</I<STRONG>t</STRONG><EM>e</I<STRONG>e</STRONG><EM>r</I<STRONG>r</STRONG><EM>m</I<STRONG>m</STRONG><EM>i</I<STRONG>i</STRONG><EM>n</I<STRONG>n</STRONG><EM>f</I<STRONG>f</STRONG><EM>o</I<STRONG>o</STRONG>
<STRONG>KE</STRONG> <STRONG>F4</STRONG> Tek <STRONG>key_f14</STRONG>
<STRONG>KF</STRONG> <STRONG>F5</STRONG> Tek <STRONG>key_f15</STRONG>
<STRONG>BC</STRONG> <STRONG>Sb</STRONG> Tek <STRONG>set_background</STRONG>
- <STRONG>FC</STRONG> <STRONG>Sf</STRONG> Tek <STRONG>set_foreground</STRONG>
+ <STRONG>FC</STRONG> <STRONG>Sf</STRONG> Tek <STRONG>set_foreground</STRONG>
<STRONG>HS</STRONG> <STRONG>mh</STRONG> Iris <STRONG>enter_dim_mode</STRONG>
XENIX <EM>termcap</EM> had a set of extension capabilities, corresponding to box
<STRONG>Gc</STRONG> double intersection
<STRONG>GG</STRONG> ACS magic cookie count
- If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they are composed
+ If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they are composed
into an <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> string. The double-line capabilities and <STRONG>GG</STRONG> are discarded
with a warning message.
- IBM's AIX has a <EM>terminfo</EM> facility descended from SVr1 <EM>terminfo</EM>, but
- which is incompatible with the SVr4 format. <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> translates the
+ IBM's AIX has a <EM>terminfo</EM> facility descended from SVr1 <EM>terminfo</EM>, but
+ which is incompatible with the SVr4 format. <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> translates the
following AIX extensions.
<STRONG>IBM</STRONG> <STRONG>XSI</STRONG>
font2 s2ds
font3 s3ds
- Additionally, this program translates the AIX <STRONG>box1</STRONG> capability to an
+ Additionally, this program translates the AIX <STRONG>box1</STRONG> capability to an
<STRONG>acsc</STRONG> string.
- The HP-UX <EM>terminfo</EM> library supports two nonstandard <EM>terminfo</EM>
- capabilities, <STRONG>meml</STRONG> (memory lock) and <STRONG>memu</STRONG> (memory unlock). <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG>
+ The HP-UX <EM>terminfo</EM> library supports two nonstandard <EM>terminfo</EM>
+ capabilities, <STRONG>meml</STRONG> (memory lock) and <STRONG>memu</STRONG> (memory unlock). <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG>
discards these with a warning message.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
- The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of
+ The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of
following the <STRONG>-v</STRONG> with a trace level <EM>n</EM>, you repeat it <EM>n</EM> times.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes <STRONG>tic</STRONG> briefly, but omits this
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes <STRONG>tic</STRONG> briefly, but omits this
program. SVr4 systems provide <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> as a separate application from
<STRONG>tic</STRONG>.
-ncurses 6.4 2023-10-
07 <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-10-
14 <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>
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