Manual: infotocap

infotocap(1)						User commands						infotocap(1)

NAME
       infotocap - convert a terminfo description into a termcap description

SYNOPSIS
       infotocap [tic-option] file ...

       infotocap -V

DESCRIPTION
       infotocap  translates terminal descriptions.  It looks in each given text file for terminfo entries and, for each one
       found, writes an analogous termcap description to the standard output stream.  terminfo “use” capabilities  translate
       to  termcap  tc capabilities.  Because termcap is a less expressive format than terminfo, some capabilities cannot be
       translated.

       This utility is implemented as a link to tic(1), with the latter's -C option implied.  You can use other tic  options
       such  as -1, -f, -v, -w, and -x.	 The -V option reports the version of ncurses associated with this program and exits
       with a successful status.

FILES
       /etc/terminfo
	      compiled terminal description database

EXTENSIONS
       This command is an ncurses extension.

PORTABILITY
       X/Open Curses Issue 7 (2009) does not specify this command.  SVr4 and NetBSD curses do not implement it.

AUTHORS
       Eric S. Raymond  and
       Thomas E. Dickey 

SEE ALSO
       infocmp(1), tic(1), ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5)

ncurses 6.6						 2025-10-04						infotocap(1)