captoinfo(1M)                                                 captoinfo(1M)

NAME
     captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description

SYNOPSIS
     captoinfo [-v ...] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file ...

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

     If no file is given, 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 /usr/share/lib/termcap file is read.

OPTIONS
     -v   Prints tracing information to standard error as the program runs.
          More detailed information is printed if additional -v options are
          specified.

     -V   Prints the version of the program in use to standard error and
          exits.

     -1   Forces the fields to print one to a line. Otherwise, several
          fields are printed to a line to a maximum width of 60 characters.

     -w   Changes the output to width characters.

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

FILES
     /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/*
          Compiled terminal description database

SEE ALSO
     infocmp(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(4).












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