captoinfo — Print the terminal entries in the terminfo database

Format

captoinfo [–1vV] [–w width] [file …]

Description

captoinfo prints all of the terminal entries in the terminfo database to standard output (stdout) in terminfo format. You can either look at the output or send it to a file that can be processed by tic.

The Curses application uses the terminfo database, which contains a list of terminal descriptions. This enables you to manipulate a terminal's display regardless of the terminal type. To create the terminfo database, use tic. See the section on customizing the terminfo database in z/OS UNIX System Services Planning for information about defining the terminfo database.

For more information about curses, see z/OS C Curses.

Options

1: Single-column output
V: Print the program version
v: Print debugging information (verbose) to standard error (stderr)
w: Specifies the width of the output
filename: Specifies the termcap entries to be processed

Examples

This example shows how to print all the terminal entries in the file /etc/termcap.src in terminfo format. The entry for a vt52 is shown. Issue:

captoinfo  /etc/termcap.src

You get the following display:

captoinfo: obsolete 2 character name 'dv' removed.
      synonyms are: 'vt52|dec vt52'
#
vt52|dec vt52,
      xon,
      cols#80, lines#24,
      bel=‸¬, clear=-E-310-E-321, cub1=‸½, cud1=‸-,
      cuf1=-E-303,
      cup=-E-350%-227-361%'-s'%+%-203%-227-362%'-s'%+%-203,
      cuu1=-E-301, ed=-E-321, el=-E-322, ind=‸-,
      kbs=‸½, kcub1=-E-304, kcud1=-E-302, kcuf1=-E-303,
      kcuu1=-E-301, ri=-E-311,
# END OF TERMCAP
#  ------------------------

To print all the terminal entries in the file /etc/termcap.src in terminfo format with each entry on a separate line, issue:

captoinfo  –1 /etc/termcap.src

You get the following display:

captoinfo: obsolete 2 character name 'dv' removed.
      synonyms are: 'vt52|dec vt52'

#
vt52|dec vt52,
     xon,
     cols#80,
     lines#24,
     clear=-E-310-E-321,
     cub1=‸½,
     cud1=‸-,
     cuf1=-E-303,
     cup=-E-350%-227-361%'-s'%+%-203%-227-362%'-s'%+%-203,
     cuu1=-E-301,
     ed=-E-321,
     el=-E-322,
     ind=‸-,
     kbs=‸½,
     kcub1=-E-304,
     kcud1=-E-302,
     kcuf1=-E-303,
     kcuu1=-E-301,
     ri=-E-311,
# END OF TERMCAP
#  ------------------------

This example shows how to write all the terminal entries in the file /etc/termcap.src to the file /test/terminfo.ti. The resulting file can be processed by tic. Notice that the error messages are written to stderr.
```
captoinfo  /etc/termcap.src  1> /test/terminfo.ti
```
You get the following:
```
captoinfo: obsolete 2 character name 'dv' removed.
      synonyms are: 'vt52|dec vt52'
#
```

Related information

infocmp, tic