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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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captoinfo — Convert a termcap Description into a terminfo Description

Synopsis

/bin/captoinfo [-1][-v...][-V][-w width] filename...
					

Description

Use the captoinfo command to convert termcap entries into terminfo entries. For example, you may need to use it to enable the function keys on a Wyse® terminal to work properly. captoinfo looks in filename for termcap descriptions. For each one found, it writes an equivalent terminfo description to standard output, along with any comments found. A description that is expressed as relative to another description (as specified in the termcap tc = field) is reduced to the minimum superset before being displayed.

If you specify no file name, then the environment variable TERMCAP is used for the file name ...

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