MirBSD manpage: captoinfo(1)


captoinfo(1)        UNIX Programmer's Manual         captoinfo(1)

NAME

     captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo
     description

SYNOPSIS

     captoinfo [-vn width]  [-V] [-1] [-w width] file . . .

DESCRIPTION

     captoinfo looks in 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 speci-
     fied 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.  Other-
          wise, 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 capabil-
     ities by captoinfo. Whenever one of these automatic transla-
     tions is done, the program will issue an notification to
     stderr, inviting the user to check that it has not mistak-
     enly translated a completely unknown and random capability
     and/or syntax error.

     Nonstd   Std    From           Terminfo
      name    name                 capability
     ______________________________________________
     BO       mr     AT&T    enter_reverse_mode
     CI       vi     AT&T    cursor_invisible
     CV       ve     AT&T    cursor_normal
     DS       mh     AT&T    enter_dim_mode
     EE       me     AT&T    exit_attribute_mode

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     FE       LF     AT&T    label_on
     FL       LO     AT&T    label_off
     XS       mk     AT&T    enter_secure_mode
     EN       @7     XENIX   key_end
     GE       ae     XENIX   exit_alt_charset_mode
     GS       as     XENIX   enter_alt_charset_mode
     HM       kh     XENIX   key_home
     LD       kL     XENIX   key_dl
     PD       kN     XENIX   key_npage
     PN       po     XENIX   prtr_off
     PS       pf     XENIX   prtr_on
     PU       kP     XENIX   key_ppage
     RT       @8     XENIX   kent
     UP       ku     XENIX   kcuu1
     KA       k;     Tek     key_f10
     KB       F1     Tek     key_f11
     KC       F2     Tek     key_f12
     KD       F3     Tek     key_f13
     KE       F4     Tek     key_f14
     KF       F5     Tek     key_f15
     BC       Sb     Tek     set_background
     FC       Sf     Tek     set_foreground
     HS       mh     Iris    enter_dim_mode

     XENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capabili-
     ties 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

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     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 mes-
     sage.

     IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 ter-
     minfo 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(1), running in -I
     mode. You can use other tic options such as -f and  -x.

     The trace option isn't identical to SVr4's.  Under SVr4,
     instead of following the -v with a trace level n, you repeat
     it n times.

SEE ALSO

     curses(3), infocmp(1), terminfo(5)

AUTHOR

     Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>

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