1captoinfo(1M) captoinfo(1M)
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6 captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description
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9 captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file ...
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12 captoinfo looks in each given text file for termcap descriptions. For
13 each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is written to stan‐
14 dard output. Termcap tc capabilities are translated directly to ter‐
15 minfo use capabilities.
16 If no file is given, then the environment variable TERMCAP is used for
18 the filename or entry. If TERMCAP is a full pathname to a file, only
19 the terminal whose name is specified in the environment variable TERM
20 is extracted from that file. If the environment variable TERMCAP is
21 not set, then the file /usr/share/terminfo is read.
22 -v print out tracing information on standard error as the program
24 runs.
25 -V print out the version of the program in use on standard error and
27 exit.
28 -1 cause the fields to print out one to a line. Otherwise, the
30 fields will be printed several to a line to a maximum width of 60
31 characters.
32 -w change the output to width characters.
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36 /usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description database.
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39 Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically be translated
40 into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo capabilities by captoinfo.
41 Whenever one of these automatic translations is done, the program will
42 issue an notification to stderr, inviting the user to check that it has
43 not mistakenly translated a completely unknown and random capability
44 and/or syntax error.
45 Nonstd Std From Terminfo
47 name name capability
48 ───────────────────────────────────────────────
49 BO mr AT&T enter_reverse_mode
50 CI vi AT&T cursor_invisible
51 CV ve AT&T cursor_normal
52 DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode
53 EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode
54 FE LF AT&T label_on
55 FL LO AT&T label_off
56 XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode
57 EN @7 XENIX key_end
58 GE ae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode
59 GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode
60 HM kh XENIX key_home
61 LD kL XENIX key_dl
62 PD kN XENIX key_npage
63 PN po XENIX prtr_off
64 PS pf XENIX prtr_on
65 PU kP XENIX key_ppage
66 RT @8 XENIX kent
68 UP ku XENIX kcuu1
69 KA k; Tek key_f10
70 KB F1 Tek key_f11
71 KC F2 Tek key_f12
72 KD F3 Tek key_f13
73 KE F4 Tek key_f14
74 KF F5 Tek key_f15
75 BC Sb Tek set_background
76 FC Sf Tek set_foreground
77 HS mh Iris enter_dim_mode
78 XENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capabilities for
80 forms drawing, designed to take advantage of the IBM PC high-half
81 graphics. They were as follows:
82 Cap Graphic
84 ─────────────────────────────
85 G2 upper left
86 G3 lower left
87 G1 upper right
88 G4 lower right
89 GR pointing right
90 GL pointing left
91 GU pointing up
92 GD pointing down
93 GH horizontal line
94 GV vertical line
95 GC intersection
96 G6 upper left
97 G7 lower left
98 G5 upper right
99 G8 lower right
100 Gr tee pointing right
101 Gr tee pointing left
102 Gu tee pointing up
103 Gd tee pointing down
104 Gh horizontal line
105 Gv vertical line
106 Gc intersection
107 GG acs magic cookie count
108 If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they will automati‐
110 cally be composed into an acsc string. The double-line capabilities
111 and GG are discarded with a warning message.
112 IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 terminfo but in‐
114 compatible with the SVr4 format. The following AIX extensions are au‐
115 tomatically translated:
116 IBM XSI
118 ─────────────
119 ksel kslt
120 kbtab kcbt
121 font0 s0ds
122 font1 s1ds
123 font2 s2ds
124 font3 s3ds
125 Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automatically translated
127 to an acsc string.
128 Hewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstandard terminfo
130 capabilities meml (memory lock) and memu (memory unlock). These will
131 be discarded with a warning message.
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134 This utility is actually a link to tic(1M), running in -I mode. You
135 can use other tic options such as -f and -x.
136 The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of
138 following the -v with a trace level n, you repeat it n times.
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141 X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes tic briefly, but omits this
142 program. SVr4 systems provide captoinfo as a separate application from
143 tic.
144 NetBSD does not provide this application.
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148 infocmp(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(5)
149 This describes ncurses version 6.4 (patch 20230520).
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153 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
154 Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
155 captoinfo(1M)