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From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: TERMCAP > TERMINFO, HOW?
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 15:29:05 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.932
Posted: Sat Oct 26 15:29:05 1985
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Organization: Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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Summary: termcap to terminfo converter

> >>      1. Is there some way to compile an "old" termcap entry
> >>         into a terminfo entry?  If so, how?
> >
> >Sure; use the "ex" script cvt.ex in libcurses/terminfo.
> 
> Could you be more specific about which version of the operating system you
> are referring to.  I do not find this file in 4.2BSD or in SysV release 2
> (for the 3b2, including the terminfo package).


When we got our 3B2's we had the same problem.  To solve it, I sat down and
wrote a filter that converted termcap files to terminfo files.  I posted
the program to net.sources quite some time ago and, if I get enough requests,
I'll post it again (hopefully to mod.sources, where it'll be archived for
anyone who misses it this time).

				robert
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Robert Viduya							01111000
Office of Computing Services
Georgia Institute of Technology

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