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captoinfo

Section: System Administration Commands (1M)
Updated: 18 May 1993
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NAME

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:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

 

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.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
NOTES

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