# phpman > man > captoinfo(1) [captoinfo(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/captoinfo/1/markdown) General Commands Manual [captoinfo(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/captoinfo/1/markdown) ## NAME **captoinfo** - convert a _termcap_ description into a _terminfo_ description ## SYNOPSIS **captoinfo** [**-v**_n_ _width_] [**-V**] [**-1**] [**-w** _width_] _file_ ... ## DESCRIPTION **captoinfo** looks in each given text _file_ for **termcap** descriptions. For each one found, an equivalent **terminfo** description is written to standard output. Termcap **tc** capabilities are translated directly to terminfo **use** capabilities. If no _file_ 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 en‐ vironment variable **TERM** is extracted from that file. If the environment variable **TERMCAP** is not set, then the file **/etc/terminfo** is read. ### -v ### -V ### -1 eral to a line to a maximum width of 60 characters. ### -w ## FILES /etc/terminfo Compiled terminal description database. ## TRANSLATIONS FROM NONSTANDARD CAPABILITIES Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically be translated into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo capabilities by **captoinfo**. Whenever one of these automatic trans‐ lations is done, the program will issue an notification to stderr, inviting the user to check that it has not mistakenly translated a completely unknown and random capability and/or syn‐ tax error. Nonstd Std From Terminfo name name capability ─────────────────────────────────────────────── BO mr AT&T enter_reverse_mode CI vi AT&T cursor_invisible CV ve AT&T cursor_normal DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode FE LF AT&T label_on FL LO AT&T label_off XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode EN @7 XENIX key_end GE ae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode HM kh XENIX key_home LD kL XENIX key_dl PD kN XENIX key_npage PN po XENIX prtr_off PS pf XENIX prtr_on PU kP XENIX key_ppage RT @8 XENIX kent UP ku XENIX kcuu1 KA k; Tek key_f10 KB F1 Tek key_f11 KC F2 Tek key_f12 KD F3 Tek key_f13 KE F4 Tek key_f14 KF F5 Tek key_f15 BC Sb Tek set_background FC Sf Tek set_foreground HS mh Iris enter_dim_mode XENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capabilities for forms drawing, designed to take advantage of the IBM PC high-half graphics. They were as follows: Cap Graphic ───────────────────────────── G2 upper left G3 lower left G1 upper right G4 lower right GR pointing right GL pointing left GU pointing up GD pointing down GH horizontal line GV vertical line GC intersection G6 upper left G7 lower left G5 upper right G8 lower right Gr tee pointing right Gr tee pointing left Gu tee pointing up Gd tee pointing down Gh horizontal line Gv vertical line Gc intersection GG acs magic cookie count If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they will automatically be composed into an **acsc** string. The double-line capabilities and **GG** are discarded with a warning message. IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 terminfo but incompatible with the SVr4 format. The following AIX extensions are automatically translated: IBM XSI ───────────── ksel kslt kbtab kcbt font0 s0ds font1 s1ds font2 s2ds font3 s3ds Additionally, the AIX _box1_ capability will be automatically translated to an **acsc** string. Hewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstandard terminfo capabilities **meml** (mem‐ ory lock) and **memu** (memory unlock). These will be discarded with a warning message. ## NOTES This utility is actually a link to [**tic**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/tic/1/markdown), running in _-I_ mode. You can use other **tic** options such as **-f** and **-x**. The verbose option is not identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4, instead of following the **-v** with a trace level n, you repeat it n times. ## PORTABILITY X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009) describes **tic** briefly, but omits this program. SVr4 systems provide **captoinfo** as a separate application from **tic**. NetBSD does not provide this application. ## SEE ALSO [**infocmp**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/infocmp/1/markdown), [**ncurses**(3NCURSES)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ncurses/3NCURSES/markdown), [**terminfo**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/terminfo/5/markdown) This describes **ncurses** version 6.3 (patch 20211021). ## AUTHOR Eric S. Raymond <> and Thomas E. Dickey <> [captoinfo(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/captoinfo/1/markdown)