- 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
+ 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
+ -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
+ -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.
+ -w change the output to width characters.
Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically be translated
- into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo capabilities by captoinfo.
+ 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
@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@
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 warning message.
+ 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 terminfo but
incompatible with the SVr4 format. The following AIX extensions are
@@ -172,34 +172,34 @@
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- Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automatically 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 nonstandard terminfo
- capabilities meml (memory lock) and memu (memory unlock). These will
+ 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 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.
+ 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.
+ 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.