captoinfo looks in each given text file for termcap descriptions. For
- each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is written to stan-
- dard output. Termcap tc capabilities are translated directly to ter-
- minfo use capabilities.
+ 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
@@ -154,9 +155,9 @@
Gc intersection
GG acs magic cookie count
- If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they will automati-
- cally be composed into an acsc string. The double-line capabilities
- and GG are discarded with a warning 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 terminfo but
incompatible with the SVr4 format. The following AIX extensions are
@@ -183,14 +184,22 @@
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
+ 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.
+
+