captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description

captoinfo [tic-option] [file . . .]

captoinfo -V

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(1), 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.

TABLE

XENIX termcap had a set of extension capabilities, corresponding to box drawing characters of CCSID (code page) 437, as follows.

captoinfo composes single-line box-drawing capabilities into a terminfo acs_chars (acsc) string capability, and discards GG and double-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.

It furthermore translates the AIX box1 capability to an acs_chars (acsc) string capability.

The HP-UX terminfo library supports two nonstandard terminfo capabilities: memory_lock (meml) and memory_unlock (memu). captoinfo discards these with a warning message.

infocmp(1), tic(1), ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5)