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 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.

FILES

       /etc/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.

       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.

NOTES

       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.

PORTABILITY

       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.

SEE ALSO

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

       This describes ncurses version 6.3 (patch 20211021).

AUTHOR

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

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