{ "mode": "man", "parameter": "captoinfo", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/captoinfo/1/json", "generated": "2026-06-12T13:10:34Z", "synopsis": "captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file ...", "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description\n", "subsections": [] }, "SYNOPSIS": { "content": "captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file ...\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "captoinfo looks in each given text file for termcap descriptions. For each one found, an\nequivalent terminfo description is written to standard output. Termcap tc capabilities are\ntranslated directly to terminfo use capabilities.\n\nIf no file is given, then the environment variable TERMCAP is used for the filename or entry.\nIf TERMCAP is a full pathname to a file, only the terminal whose name is specified in the en‐\nvironment variable TERM is extracted from that file. If the environment variable TERMCAP is\nnot set, then the file /etc/terminfo is read.\n", "subsections": [ { "name": "-v", "content": "", "flag": "-v" }, { "name": "-V", "content": "", "flag": "-V" }, { "name": "-1", "content": "eral to a line to a maximum width of 60 characters.\n", "flag": "-1" }, { "name": "-w", "content": "", "flag": "-w" } ] }, "FILES": { "content": "/etc/terminfo Compiled terminal description database.\n", "subsections": [] }, "TRANSLATIONS FROM NONSTANDARD CAPABILITIES": { "content": "Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically be translated into standard\n(SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo capabilities by captoinfo. Whenever one of these automatic trans‐\nlations is done, the program will issue an notification to stderr, inviting the user to check\nthat it has not mistakenly translated a completely unknown and random capability and/or syn‐\ntax error.\n\nNonstd Std From Terminfo\nname name capability\n───────────────────────────────────────────────\nBO mr AT&T enterreversemode\nCI vi AT&T cursorinvisible\nCV ve AT&T cursornormal\nDS mh AT&T enterdimmode\nEE me AT&T exitattributemode\nFE LF AT&T labelon\nFL LO AT&T labeloff\nXS mk AT&T entersecuremode\nEN @7 XENIX keyend\nGE ae XENIX exitaltcharsetmode\nGS as XENIX enteraltcharsetmode\nHM kh XENIX keyhome\nLD kL XENIX keydl\nPD kN XENIX keynpage\nPN po XENIX prtroff\nPS pf XENIX prtron\nPU kP XENIX keyppage\nRT @8 XENIX kent\nUP ku XENIX kcuu1\nKA k; Tek keyf10\nKB F1 Tek keyf11\nKC F2 Tek keyf12\nKD F3 Tek keyf13\n\nKE F4 Tek keyf14\nKF F5 Tek keyf15\nBC Sb Tek setbackground\nFC Sf Tek setforeground\nHS mh Iris enterdimmode\n\nXENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capabilities for forms drawing, designed\nto take advantage of the IBM PC high-half graphics. They were as follows:\n\nCap Graphic\n─────────────────────────────\nG2 upper left\nG3 lower left\nG1 upper right\nG4 lower right\nGR pointing right\nGL pointing left\nGU pointing up\nGD pointing down\nGH horizontal line\nGV vertical line\nGC intersection\nG6 upper left\nG7 lower left\nG5 upper right\nG8 lower right\nGr tee pointing right\nGr tee pointing left\nGu tee pointing up\nGd tee pointing down\nGh horizontal line\nGv vertical line\nGc intersection\nGG acs magic cookie count\n\nIf the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they will automatically be composed into\nan acsc string. The double-line capabilities and GG are discarded with a warning message.\n\nIBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 terminfo but incompatible with the SVr4\nformat. The following AIX extensions are automatically translated:\n\nIBM XSI\n─────────────\nksel kslt\nkbtab kcbt\nfont0 s0ds\nfont1 s1ds\nfont2 s2ds\nfont3 s3ds\n\nAdditionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automatically translated to an acsc string.\n\nHewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstandard terminfo capabilities meml (mem‐\nory lock) and memu (memory unlock). These will be discarded with a warning message.\n", "subsections": [] }, "NOTES": { "content": "This utility is actually a link to tic(1), running in -I mode. You can use other tic options\nsuch as -f and -x.\n\nThe verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of following the -v with\na trace level n, you repeat it n times.\n", "subsections": [] }, "PORTABILITY": { "content": "X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes tic briefly, but omits this program. SVr4 systems\nprovide captoinfo as a separate application from tic.\n\nNetBSD does not provide this application.\n", "subsections": [] }, "SEE ALSO": { "content": "infocmp(1), ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5)\n\nThis describes ncurses version 6.3 (patch 20211021).\n", "subsections": [] }, "AUTHOR": { "content": "Eric S. Raymond and\nThomas E. Dickey \n\n\n\ncaptoinfo(1)", "subsections": [] } }, "summary": "captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description", "flags": [ { "flag": "-v", "long": null, "arg": null, "description": "" }, { "flag": "-V", "long": null, "arg": null, "description": "" }, { "flag": "-1", "long": null, "arg": null, "description": "eral to a line to a maximum width of 60 characters." }, { "flag": "-w", "long": null, "arg": null, "description": "" } ], "examples": [], "see_also": [ { "name": "infocmp", "section": "1", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/infocmp/1/json" }, { "name": "ncurses", "section": "3NCURSES", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ncurses/3NCURSES/json" }, { "name": "terminfo", "section": "5", "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/terminfo/5/json" } ] }