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-<H1 class="no-header">captoinfo 1m 2024-03-23 ncurses 6.5 User commands</H1>
+<H1 class="no-header">captoinfo 1m 2025-11-11 ncurses 6.6 User commands</H1>
<PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG> User commands <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>
-
-
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> - convert a <EM>termcap</EM> description into a <EM>terminfo</EM> description
@@ -63,10 +61,10 @@
equivalent <EM>terminfo</EM> description to the standard output stream. <EM>termcap</EM>
<STRONG>tc</STRONG> capabilities translate to <EM>terminfo</EM> "<STRONG>use</STRONG>" capabilities.
- If no <EM>file</EM>s are specified, <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> interprets the content of the
- environment variable <EM>TERMCAP</EM> as a file name, and extracts only the
- entry for the terminal named in the environment variable <EM>TERM</EM> from it.
- If the environment variable <EM>TERMCAP</EM> is not set, <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> reads
+ If no <EM>file</EM>s are specified, <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> interprets the content of the
+ environment variable <EM>TERMCAP</EM> as a file name, and extracts only the
+ entry for the terminal type named in the environment variable <EM>TERM</EM> from
+ it. If the environment variable <EM>TERMCAP</EM> is not set, <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> reads
<EM>/etc/termcap</EM>.
This utility is implemented as a link to <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, with the latter's <STRONG>-I</STRONG>
@@ -77,12 +75,11 @@
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Translations-from-Nonstandard-Capabilities">Translations from Nonstandard Capabilities</a></H3><PRE>
<STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> translates some obsolete, nonstandard capabilities into
- standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) <EM>terminfo</EM> 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.
+ standard <EM>terminfo</EM> 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.
- <STRONG>Name</STRONG>
+ <STRONG><EM>termcap</EM></STRONG> <STRONG>Code</STRONG>
<STRONG>Obsolete</STRONG> <STRONG>Standard</STRONG> <STRONG>Origin</STRONG> <STRONG><EM>terminfo</EM></STRONG> <STRONG>capability</STRONG>
---------------------------------------------------------
<STRONG>BO</STRONG> <STRONG>mr</STRONG> AT&amp;T <STRONG>enter_reverse_mode</STRONG>
@@ -111,14 +108,13 @@
<STRONG>KE</STRONG> <STRONG>F4</STRONG> Tektronix <STRONG>key_f14</STRONG>
<STRONG>KF</STRONG> <STRONG>F5</STRONG> Tektronix <STRONG>key_f15</STRONG>
<STRONG>BC</STRONG> <STRONG>Sb</STRONG> Tektronix <STRONG>set_background</STRONG>
-
<STRONG>FC</STRONG> <STRONG>Sf</STRONG> Tektronix <STRONG>set_foreground</STRONG>
<STRONG>HS</STRONG> <STRONG>mh</STRONG> IRIX <STRONG>enter_dim_mode</STRONG>
XENIX <EM>termcap</EM> had a set of extension capabilities, corresponding to box
drawing characters of CCSID ("code page") 437, as follows.
- <STRONG><EM>termcap</EM></STRONG> <STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Graphic</STRONG>
+ <STRONG><EM>termcap</EM></STRONG> <STRONG>Code</STRONG> <STRONG>Graphic</STRONG>
-----------------------------------------
<STRONG>G2</STRONG> upper left corner
<STRONG>G3</STRONG> lower left corner
@@ -144,27 +140,28 @@
<STRONG>Gc</STRONG> double intersection
<STRONG>GG</STRONG> ACS magic cookie count
- <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> composes single-line capabilities into an <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> string, and
- discards <STRONG>GG</STRONG> and double-line capabilities with a warning diagnostic.
+ <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> composes single-line box-drawing capabilities into a <EM>terminfo</EM>
+ <STRONG>acs_chars</STRONG> (<STRONG>acsc</STRONG>) string capability, and discards <STRONG>GG</STRONG> and double-line
+ capabilities with a warning diagnostic.
- IBM's AIX has a <EM>terminfo</EM> facility descended from SVr1 <EM>terminfo</EM>, but
- which is incompatible with the SVr4 format. <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> translates the
- following AIX extensions.
+ AIX has a <EM>terminfo</EM> facility descended from SVr2 <EM>terminfo</EM>, but which is
+ incompatible with the SVr4 format. <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> translates the following
+ AIX extensions.
- <STRONG>IBM</STRONG> <STRONG>XSI</STRONG>
- -------------
- ksel kslt
- kbtab kcbt
- font0 s0ds
- font1 s1ds
- font2 s2ds
- font3 s3ds
+ <STRONG>IBM</STRONG> <STRONG>X/Open</STRONG>
+ ---------------
+ ksel kslt
+ kbtab kcbt
+ font0 s0ds
+ font1 s1ds
+ font2 s2ds
+ font3 s3ds
- Additionally, this program translates the AIX <STRONG>box1</STRONG> capability to an
- <STRONG>acsc</STRONG> string.
+ It furthermore translates the AIX <STRONG>box1</STRONG> capability to an <STRONG>acs_chars</STRONG>
+ (<STRONG>acsc</STRONG>) string capability.
- The HP-UX <EM>terminfo</EM> library supports two nonstandard <EM>terminfo</EM>
- capabilities, <STRONG>meml</STRONG> (memory lock) and <STRONG>memu</STRONG> (memory unlock). <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG>
+ The HP-UX <EM>terminfo</EM> library supports two nonstandard <EM>terminfo</EM>
+ capabilities: <STRONG>memory_lock</STRONG> (<STRONG>meml</STRONG>) and <STRONG>memory_unlock</STRONG> (<STRONG>memu</STRONG>). <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG>
discards these with a warning message.
@@ -173,12 +170,15 @@
default <EM>termcap</EM> terminal capability database
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
+ This command is an SVr4 <EM>curses</EM> and <EM>ncurses</EM> extension.
+
+
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes <STRONG>tic</STRONG> briefly, but omits this
- program.
+ X/Open Curses Issue 7 (2009) does not specify this command.
- SVr4 systems provide <STRONG>captoinfo</STRONG> as a separate application from <STRONG>tic</STRONG>. Its
- <STRONG>-v</STRONG> option does not accept a trace level argument <EM>n</EM>; repeat <STRONG>-v</STRONG> <EM>n</EM> times
+ SVr4 systems provide <EM>captoinfo</EM> as a separate application from <EM>tic</EM>. Its
+ <STRONG>-v</STRONG> option does not accept a trace level argument <EM>n</EM>; repeat <STRONG>-v</STRONG> <EM>n</EM> times
instead.
NetBSD does not provide this application.
@@ -192,9 +192,7 @@
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
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-
-ncurses 6.5 2024-03-23 <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.6 2025-11-11 <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>
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