NAME
captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description
SYNOPSIS
captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file . . .
DESCRIPTION
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.
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
exit.
-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.
FILES
/usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description database.
TRANSLATIONS FROM NONSTANDARD CAPABILITIES
Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically be translated
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
and/or syntax error.
Nonstd Std From Terminfo
name name capability
───────────────────────────────────────────────
BO mr AT&T enterreversemode
CI vi AT&T cursorinvisible
CV ve AT&T cursornormal
DS mh AT&T enterdimmode
EE me AT&T exitattributemode
FE LF AT&T labelon
FL LO AT&T labeloff
XS mk AT&T entersecuremode
EN @7 XENIX keyend
GE ae XENIX exitaltcharsetmode
GS as XENIX enteraltcharsetmode
HM kh XENIX keyhome
LD kL XENIX keydl
PD kN XENIX keynpage
PN po XENIX prtroff
PS pf XENIX prtron
PU kP XENIX keyppage
RT @8 XENIX kent
UP ku XENIX kcuu1
KA k; Tek keyf10
KB F1 Tek keyf11
KC F2 Tek keyf12
KD F3 Tek keyf13
KE F4 Tek keyf14
KF F5 Tek keyf15
BC Sb Tek setbackground
FC Sf Tek setforeground
HS mh Iris enterdimmode
XENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capabilities for
forms drawing, designed to take advantage of the IBM PC high-half
graphics. They were as follows:
Cap Graphic
─────────────────────────────
G2 upper left
G3 lower left
G1 upper right
G4 lower right
GR pointing right
GL pointing left
GU pointing up
GD pointing down
GH horizontal line
GV vertical line
GC intersection
G6 upper left
G7 lower left
G5 upper right
G8 lower right
Gr tee pointing right
Gr tee pointing left
Gu tee pointing up
Gd tee pointing down
Gh horizontal line
Gv vertical line
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.
IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 terminfo but
incompatible with the SVr4 format. The following AIX extensions are
automatically translated:
IBM XSI
─────────────
ksel kslt
kbtab kcbt
font0 s0ds
font1 s1ds
font2 s2ds
font3 s3ds
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
be discarded with a warning message.
NOTES
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
following the -v with a trace level n, you repeat it n times.
SEE ALSO
infocmp(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(5)
This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20130511).
AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond and
Thomas E. Dickey
captoinfo(1M)