09-29-2004
captoinfo
The captoinfo is the command which converts the termcap file to terminfo file.
For every model of the terminal it needs to tell the application programs what the terminal is capable of doing. It tells what escape sequences (or control characters) to send to the terminal in order to do things such as move the cursor to a new location, erase part of the screen, scroll the screen, change modes, change appearance (colors, brightness, blinking, underlining, reverse video etc.). These informations are stored in a file called termcap (terminal capabilities).
The termcap file format is a older version. It has some disadvantages like the termcap entries had a size limitation, the complicated format of the file, etc., So in order to convert it in to the new version we use the commandcaptoinfo which converts it in to the new format called terminfo.
The termcap and terminfo files differ mainly in the capability names and the entry syntax. Therefore, the captoinfo command only makes the syntactical transformations and vocabulary substitutions.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
captoinfo
captoinfo(1M) System Administration Commands captoinfo(1M)
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 out-
put, 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 TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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.
SunOS 5.11 18 May 1993 captoinfo(1M)