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From: felps@convex.com (Robert Felps)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Terminfo sucks!! Any programs to translate 'cap into 'info?
Keywords: tvi965
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Date: 27 Jun 90 13:41:21 GMT
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rg@uunet!unhd (Roger Gonzalez ) writes:

>I have been unable to translate my termcap entry for my new tvi965
>into terminfo format.  I need to do this because the version of vi
>that we run uses curses with terminfo.  I use Emacs, but everybody
>else uses vi.  Is there an automated way to accomplish what I want?
>Tic whines incessantly about my entry.  I really want the other
>users to stop using the tvi950 entry 'cause it leaves ugly magic
>cookies. 

Try 'man -k terminfo' on a SV system.
HP-UX has a command captoinfo(1M/8).
AT&T 3.2 has infocmp(1?) and maybe some other captoinfo type commands if
I remember correctly.

Robert Felps
System Specialist
Convex TAC x4805
felps@convex.com
1-800-952-0379