captoinfo
Section: User commands (1M)
Updated: 202-1-11
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NAME
captoinfo -
convert a
termcap description into a
terminfo description
SYNOPSIS
captoinfo
[
ti-option]
[
file
...]
captoinfo -V
DESCRIPTION
captoinfo
translates terminal descriptions.
It looks in each given text
file
for
termcap
entries and,
for each one found,
writes an equivalent
terminfo
description to the standard output stream.
termcap
tc
capabilities translate to
terminfo
"
use"
capabilities.
If no
files
are specified,
captoinfo
interprets the content of the environment variable
TERMCAP
as a file name,
and extracts only the entry for the terminal type named
in the environment variable
TERM
from it.
If the environment variable
TERMCAP
is not set,
captoinfo
reads
/etc/termcap.
This utility is implemented as a link to tic(1M),
with the latter's
-I
option implied.
You can use other
tic
options such as
-1,
-f,
-v,
-w,
and
-x.
The
-V
option reports the version of
ncurses
associated with this program and exits with a successful status.
Translations from Nonstandard Capabilities
captoinfo
translates some obsolete,
nonstandard capabilities into standard
terminfo
capabilities.
It issues a diagnostic to the standard error stream for each,
inviting the user to check that it has not mistakenly translated an
unknown or mistyped capability name.
| termcap Code | |
|
| Obsolete | Standard | Origin | terminfo 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; | Tektronix | key_f10
|
| KB | F1 | Tektronix | key_f11
|
| KC | F2 | Tektronix | key_f12
|
| KD | F3 | Tektronix | key_f13
|
| KE | F4 | Tektronix | key_f14
|
| KF | F5 | Tektronix | key_f15
|
| BC | Sb | Tektronix | set_background
|
| FC | Sf | Tektronix | set_foreground
|
| HS | mh | IRIX | enter_dim_mode
|
XENIX
termcap
had a set of extension capabilities,
corresponding to box drawing characters of CCSID
("code page") 437,
as follows.
| termcap Code | Graphic
|
|
| G2 | upper left corner
|
| G3 | lower left corner
|
| G1 | upper right corner
|
| G4 | lower right corner
|
| GR | tee pointing right
|
| GL | tee pointing left
|
| GU | tee pointing up
|
| GD | tee pointing down
|
| GH | horizontal line
|
| GV | vertical line
|
| GC | intersection
|
| G6 | double upper left corner
|
| G7 | double lower left corner
|
| G5 | double upper right corner
|
| G8 | double lower right corner
|
| Gr | double tee pointing right
|
| Gr | double tee pointing left
|
| Gu | double tee pointing up
|
| Gd | double tee pointing down
|
| Gh | double horizontal line
|
| Gv | double vertical line
|
| Gc | double intersection
|
| GG | ACS magic cookie count
|
captoinfo
composes singl-line bo-drawing capabilities into a
terminfo
acs_chars
(acsc)
string capability,
and discards
GG
and doubl-line capabilities with a warning
diagnostic.
AIX has a
terminfo
facility descended from SVr2
terminfo,
but which is incompatible with the SVr4 format.
captoinfo
translates the following AIX extensions.
| IBM | X/Open
|
|
| ksel | kslt
|
| kbtab | kcbt
|
| font0 | s0ds
|
| font1 | s1ds
|
| font2 | s2ds
|
| font3 | s3ds
|
It furthermore translates the AIX
box1
capability to an
acs_chars
(acsc)
string capability.
The H-UX
terminfo
library supports two nonstandard
terminfo
capabilities:
memory_lock
(meml)
and
memory_unlock
(memu).
captoinfo
discards these with a warning message.
FILES
- /etc/termcap
-
default
termcap
terminal capability database
EXTENSIONS
This command is an SVr4
curses
and
ncurses
extension.
PORTABILITY
X/Open Curses Issue 7 (2009) does not specify this command.
SVr4 systems provide
captoinfo
as a separate application from
tic.
Its
-v
option does not accept a trace level argument
n;
repeat
-v
n
times instead.
NetBSD does not provide this application.
AUTHORS
Eric S. Raymond <
esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
and
Thomas E. Dickey <
dickey@invisible-island.net>
SEE ALSO
infocmp(1M),
tic(1M),
curses(3X),
terminfo(5)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- Translations from Nonstandard Capabilities
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- FILES
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- EXTENSIONS
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- PORTABILITY
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- AUTHORS
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- SEE ALSO
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