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From: joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Curses & Terminfo
Message-ID: <235@intelisc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 17:52:07 GMT
References: <11664@brl-adm.ARPA> <1686@rtech.UUCP> <10023@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <465@minya.UUCP> <249@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark)
Organization: Intel Scientific Computer, Beaverton, OR
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In article <249@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> slb@virginia.edu (Sandy Bryant) writes:
>In article <465@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>>for a new terminal.  With terminfo, the files are in some sort
>>of binary form (presumably a dump of some memory data structures
>>for speed of loading).  You can't edit these.
>>
>The files in /usr/lib/terminfo are the output of a terminfo compiler
>called "tic".  The compiler should have a man page in section 1.
>
>  I seem to recall some sort of program that purported to 
>translate termcaps into terminfos, but it never did a complete job,
>and you always ended up going through the termcap entry by hand.
>
>sandy
>slb@virginia

The translator is called `captoinfo`.  I've never used it.  Also if possible 
interest is `infocmp`, to look at the terminfo binary files.

Joel Clark
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