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From: keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Termcap -> terminfo wanted.
Message-ID: <477@uport.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 88 01:08:47 GMT
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Reply-To: keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin)
Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA
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In article  ljz%fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman) writes:
|I'm looking for some software that will convert a termcap entry into a
|terminfo entry.  Ideally, it would read a termcap entry and use it to
|fill up the internal terminfo data structure (i.e., the compiled
|terminfo entry), but I would settle for something that simply
|translated the termcap entry into the corresponding human-readable
|non-compiled terminfo entry.

AT&T provides a program called captoinfo which does the job.  This is
included in System V Release 3.0.  You could also get it from the
AT&T Toolchest, separately (I think).
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Keith Hankin	keith@uport
Microport Systems