captoinfo

- convert a termcap description into a terminfo description

Synopsis

captoinfo [-1] [-v]... [-V] [-w width] filename...

Description

captoinfo looks in filename for termcap descriptions. For each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is written to standard output, along with any comments found. A description which is expressed as relative to another description (as specified in the termcap tc = field) is reduced to the minimum superset before being displayed.

If no filename 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/lib/termcap is read.

Options

-1

Display the fields one to a line. Otherwise, the fields are printed several to a line, with a maximum width of 60 characters.

-v

Display tracing information on the standard error as the program runs. Specifying additional -v options displays more detailed information.

-V

Display the version of the program in use on the standard error and then exit.

-w width

Change the output to width characters.

Files

/usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/*

compiled terminal description database

/usr/share/lib/termcap

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

infocmp(1M), curses(3CURSES), terminfo(4), attributes(5)

Notes

captoinfo should be used to convert termcap entries to terminfo entries because the termcap database may not be supplied in future releases.