captoinfo(1m) captoinfo(1m)
captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo
description
captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file . . .
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 capa-
bilities.
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 stan-
dard 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.
/usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description data-
base.
Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically
be translated into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo
capabilities by captoinfo. Whenever one of these auto-
matic 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 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
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 capa-
bilities 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 automatically be composed into an acsc string. The
double-line capabilities and GG are discarded with a warn-
ing message.
IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 ter-
minfo but incompatible with the SVr4 format. The follow-
ing 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 automati-
cally translated to an acsc string.
Hewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstan-
dard terminfo 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.
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.
infocmp(1m), curses(3x), terminfo(5)
This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20170218).
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
captoinfo(1m)