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From: bae@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Hwa Jin Bae)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Curses & Terminfo
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Date: 20 Feb 88 22:32:17 GMT
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In article <235@intelisc.UUCP> joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark) writes:
>The translator is called `captoinfo`.  I've never used it.  Also if possible 
>interest is `infocmp`, to look at the terminfo binary files.

Converting termcap to terminfo - use captoinfo
Converting terminfo to termcap - use infocmp -Cr

infocmp -Cr will not know how to translate some of the more advanced
terminfo parameterized strings functions.  You will get some error
string telling you to hand translate those to termcap, which is not
always easy (or possible).
Hwa Jin Bae
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