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convert a terminfo description into a termcap description

Synopsis

infotocap [tic-option] file ...

infotocap -V

Description

infotocap looks in each given text file for terminfo descriptions. For each one found, it writes an analogous termcap description to the standard output stream. terminfo ā€œuseā€ capabilities are translated directly to termcap tc capabilities. Because termcap is a less expressive format than terminfo, some capabilities cannot be translated.

This utility is implemented as a link to tic(1M), with the latter's -C option implied. You can use other tic options such as -1, -f, -v, -w, and -x. The -V option reports the version of ncurses associated with this program and exits with a successful status.

Files

/usr/share/terminfo

compiled terminal description database

Portability

None of X/Open Curses, Issue 7 (2009), SVr4, or NetBSD document this application.

Author

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> and
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

See Also

infocmp(1M), tic(1M), curses(3X), terminfo(5)

Info

2023-10-01 ncurses 6.4 User commands