Termcap -> terminfo wanted.

Keith Hankin keith at uport.UUCP
Wed Sep 21 11:08:47 AEST 1988


In article <LJZ.88Sep15111015fxgrp.%fx.com at ames.arc.nasa.gov> ljz%fx.com at ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman) writes:
|I'm looking for some software that will convert a termcap entry into a
|terminfo entry.  Ideally, it would read a termcap entry and use it to
|fill up the internal terminfo data structure (i.e., the compiled
|terminfo entry), but I would settle for something that simply
|translated the termcap entry into the corresponding human-readable
|non-compiled terminfo entry.

AT&T provides a program called captoinfo which does the job.  This is
included in System V Release 3.0.  You could also get it from the
AT&T Toolchest, separately (I think).
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