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.\" $Id: captoinfo.1m,v 1.77 2025/11/12 01:03:56 tom Exp $
.TH @CAPTOINFO@ 1M 2025-11-11 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "User commands"
.ie \n(.g \{\
.ds `` \(lq
.ds '' \(rq
.\}
.el \{\
.ie t .ds `` ``
.el .ds `` ""
.ie t .ds '' ''
.el .ds '' ""
.\}
.SH NAME
\fB\%@CAPTOINFO@\fP \-
convert a \fItermcap\fP description into a \fI\%term\%info\fP description
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B @CAPTOINFO@
.RI [ tic-option ]
.RI [ file
\&.\|.\|.]
.P
.B "@CAPTOINFO@ \-V"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B \%@CAPTOINFO@
translates terminal descriptions.
It looks in each given text
.I file
for
.I termcap
entries and,
for each one found,
writes an equivalent
.I term\%info
description to the standard output stream.
.I termcap
.B tc
capabilities translate to
.I term\%info
.RB \*(`` use \*(''
capabilities.
.PP
If no
.IR file s
are specified,
.B \%@CAPTOINFO@
interprets the content of the environment variable
.I \%TERMCAP
as a file name,
and extracts only the entry for the terminal type named
in the environment variable
.I TERM
from it.
If the environment variable
.I \%TERMCAP
is not set,
.B \%@CAPTOINFO@
reads
.IR \%/etc/termcap "."
.PP
This utility is implemented as a link to \fB\%@TIC@\fP(1M),
with the latter's
.B \-I
option implied.
You can use other
.B \%@TIC@
options such as
.BR \-1 ,
.BR \-f ,
.BR \-v ,
.BR \-w ,
and
.BR \-x .
The
.B \-V
option reports the version of
.I \%ncurses
associated with this program and exits with a successful status.
.SS "Translations from Nonstandard Capabilities"
.B \%@CAPTOINFO@
translates some obsolete,
nonstandard capabilities into standard
.I term\%info
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.
.PP
.\" DWB 3.3 and Plan 9 tbl require the two junk "L" specifiers in the
.\" first row description. System V, GNU, and Heirloom Doctools tbl do
.\" not; they "rectangularize" the table geometry.
.TS
center;
Cb S L L
Cb Cb Cb Cb
Cb Cb C Lb.
\f(BItermcap\fP Code
Obsolete Standard Origin \f(BIterminfo\fP 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; Tektronix key_f10
KB F1 Tektronix key_f11
KC F2 Tektronix key_f12
KD F3 Tektronix key_f13
KE F4 Tektronix key_f14
KF F5 Tektronix key_f15
BC Sb Tektronix set_background
FC Sf Tektronix set_foreground
HS mh IRIX enter_dim_mode
.TE
.PP
XENIX
.I termcap
had a set of extension capabilities,
corresponding to box drawing characters of CCSID
(\*(``code page\*('') 437,
as follows.
.PP
.TS
center;
Cb Cb
Cb L .
\f(BItermcap\fP Code Graphic
_
G2 upper left corner
G3 lower left corner
G1 upper right corner
G4 lower right corner
GR tee pointing right
GL tee pointing left
GU tee pointing up
GD tee pointing down
GH horizontal line
GV vertical line
GC intersection
G6 double upper left corner
G7 double lower left corner
G5 double upper right corner
G8 double lower right corner
Gr double tee pointing right
Gr double tee pointing left
Gu double tee pointing up
Gd double tee pointing down
Gh double horizontal line
Gv double vertical line
Gc double intersection
.\" TODO: There are about 40 box drawing code points in CCSID 437;
.\" were there no XENIX capabilities for the mixed single- and double-
.\" line intersections?
.\"
.\" TODO: GG doesn't seem to fit with the others; explain it.
GG ACS magic cookie count
.TE
.PP
.B \%@CAPTOINFO@
composes single-line box-drawing capabilities into a
.I term\%info
.B \%acs_chars
.RB \%( acsc )
string capability,
and discards
.B GG
and double-line capabilities with a warning
diagnostic.
.PP
AIX has a
.I term\%info
facility descended from SVr2
.IR term\%info ","
but which is incompatible with the SVr4 format.
.B \%@CAPTOINFO@
translates the following AIX extensions.
.PP
.TS
center;
Cb Cb
L L .
IBM X/Open
_
ksel kslt
kbtab kcbt
font0 s0ds
font1 s1ds
font2 s2ds
font3 s3ds
.TE
.PP
It furthermore translates the AIX
.B box1
capability to an
.B \%acs_chars
.RB \%( acsc )
string capability.
.PP
The HP-UX
.I \%term\%info
library supports two nonstandard
.I \%term\%info
capabilities:
.B \%memory_lock
.RB ( meml )
and
.B \%memory_unlock
.RB ( memu ).
.B \%@CAPTOINFO@
discards these with a warning message.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I /etc/termcap
default
.I termcap
terminal capability database
.SH EXTENSIONS
This command is an SVr4
.I curses
and
.I \%ncurses
extension.
.SH PORTABILITY
X/Open Curses Issue\ 7 (2009) does not specify this command.
.PP
SVr4 systems provide
.I \%captoinfo
as a separate application from
.IR \%tic "."
Its
.B \-v
option does not accept a trace level argument
.IR n ;
repeat
.B \-v
.I n
times instead.
.PP
NetBSD does not provide this application.
.SH AUTHORS
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
and
.br
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible\-island.net>
.SH SEE ALSO
\fB\%@INFOCMP@\fP(1M),
\fB\%@TIC@\fP(1M),
\fB\%curses\fP(3X),
\fB\%terminfo\fP(5)
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