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captoinfo !!!captoinfo NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FILES TRANSLATIONS FROM NONSTANDARD CAPABILITIES NOTES SEE ALSO AUTHOR ---- !!NAME __captoinfo__ - convert a ''termcap'' description into a ''terminfo'' description !!SYNOPSIS __captoinfo__ [[__-v__''n 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 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. 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: 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 automatically translated: 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 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__(3X), __infocmp__(1M), terminfo(5) !!AUTHOR Eric S. Raymond ----
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