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 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
/etc/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.
- /etc/terminfo
- Compiled terminal description database.
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.
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 capabilities 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 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:
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.
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 verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of following
the
-v with a trace level n, you repeat it n times.
X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes
tic briefly, but omits this
program. SVr4 systems provide
captoinfo as a separate application from
tic.
NetBSD does not provide this application.
infocmp(1),
ncurses(3NCURSES),
terminfo(5)
This describes
ncurses version 6.4 (patch 20221231).
Eric S. Raymond <
[email protected]> and
Thomas E. Dickey <
[email protected]>