# captoinfo 1m

    captoinfo(1m)                                             captoinfo(1m)

## NAME

           captoinfo  - convert a termcap description into a terminfo
           description

## SYNOPSIS

           captoinfo [-vn width]  [-V] [-1] [-w width] file . . .

## DESCRIPTION

           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.

## 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  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.

## 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 is not identical to SVr4's.  Under  SVr4,
           instead  of  following  the  -v  with a trace level n, you
           repeat it n times.

## SEE ALSO

           infocmp(1m), curses(3x), terminfo(5)

           This describes ncurses version 5.8 (patch 20110226).

## AUTHOR

           Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
           Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

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