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 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 /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 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

/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 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(1M), 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(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(5)

This describes ncurses version 6.2 (patch 20200212).

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