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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> - compare or print out <EM>terminfo</EM> descriptions


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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> [<STRONG>-1CDEFGIKLTUVcdegilnpqrtux</STRONG>]
             [<STRONG>-v</STRONG> <EM>n</EM>] [<STRONG>-s</STRONG> <STRONG>d</STRONG>| <STRONG>i</STRONG>| <STRONG>l</STRONG>| <STRONG>c</STRONG>] [<STRONG>-R</STRONG> <STRONG>subset</STRONG>]
             [<STRONG>-w</STRONG> <EM>width</EM>] [<STRONG>-A</STRONG> <EM>directory</EM>] [<STRONG>-B</STRONG> <EM>directory</EM>]
             [<EM>termname</EM>...]


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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>  can  be  used  to compare a binary <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> entry
       with other terminfo entries, rewrite a  <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  descrip-
       tion  to  take  advantage  of  the <STRONG>use=</STRONG> terminfo field, or
       print out a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  description  from  the  binary  file
       (<STRONG>term</STRONG>) in a variety of formats.  In all cases, the boolean
       fields will be printed  first,  followed  by  the  numeric
       fields, followed by the string fields.

   <STRONG>Default</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG>
       If  no options are specified and zero or one <EM>termnames</EM> are
       specified, the <STRONG>-I</STRONG> option will be assumed.   If  more  than
       one <EM>termname</EM> is specified, the <STRONG>-d</STRONG> option will be assumed.

   <STRONG>Comparison</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG> <STRONG>[-d]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-c]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-n]</STRONG>
       <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>  compares  the  <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  description of the first
       terminal <EM>termname</EM> with each of the descriptions  given  by
       the  entries  for  the  other  terminal's <EM>termnames</EM>.  If a
       capability is defined for only one of the  terminals,  the
       value  returned will depend on the type of the capability:
       <STRONG>F</STRONG> for boolean variables, <STRONG>-1</STRONG>  for  integer  variables,  and
       <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> for string variables.

       The  <STRONG>-d</STRONG>  option produces a list of each capability that is
       different between two entries.  This option is  useful  to
       show  the  difference between two entries, created by dif-
       ferent people, for the same or similar terminals.

       The <STRONG>-c</STRONG> option produces a list of each capability  that  is
       common between two or more entries.  Capabilities that are
       not set are ignored.  This option can be used as  a  quick
       check to see if the <STRONG>-u</STRONG> option is worth using.

       The  <STRONG>-n</STRONG>  option produces a list of each capability that is
       in none of the given entries.  If no <EM>termnames</EM> are  given,
       the environment variable <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> will be used for both of the
       <EM>termnames</EM>.  This can be used as a quick check  to  see  if
       anything was left out of a description.

   <STRONG>Source</STRONG> <STRONG>Listing</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG> <STRONG>[-I]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-L]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-C]</STRONG> <STRONG>[-r]</STRONG>
       The  <STRONG>-I</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-L</STRONG>, and <STRONG>-C</STRONG> options will produce a source listing
       for each terminal named.

      <STRONG>-I</STRONG>   use the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> names
      <STRONG>-L</STRONG>   use the long C variable name listed in &lt;<STRONG>term.h</STRONG>&gt;
      <STRONG>-C</STRONG>   use the <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> names
      <STRONG>-r</STRONG>   when using <STRONG>-C</STRONG>, put out all capabilities in <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> form
      <STRONG>-K</STRONG>   modifies the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option, improving BSD-compatibility.

       If no <EM>termnames</EM> are given, the environment  variable  <STRONG>TERM</STRONG>
       will be used for the terminal name.

       The  source produced by the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> option may be used directly
       as a <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> entry, but not all parameterized strings  can
       be changed to the <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> format.  <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> will attempt to
       convert most of the parameterized  information,  and  any-
       thing  not  converted will be plainly marked in the output
       and commented out.  These should be edited by hand.

       For best results when converting to  <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>  format,  you
       should use both <STRONG>-C</STRONG> and <STRONG>-r</STRONG>.  Normally a termcap description
       is limited to 1023 bytes.  infocmp trims away less  essen-
       tial  parts  to make it fit.  If you are converting to one
       of the (rare)  termcap  implementations  which  accept  an
       unlimited  size  of  termcap,  you  may want to add the <STRONG>-T</STRONG>
       option.  More often however, you  must  help  the  termcap
       implementation,  and  trim  excess  whitespace (use the <STRONG>-0</STRONG>
       option for that).

       All padding information  for  strings  will  be  collected
       together  and  placed at the beginning of the string where
       <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> expects it.  Mandatory padding  (padding  informa-
       tion with a trailing '/') will become optional.

       All <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> variables no longer supported by <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>, but
       which are derivable from other <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> variables, will be
       output.  Not all <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> capabilities will be translated;
       only those variables which were part of <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> will  nor-
       mally  be  output.  Specifying the <STRONG>-r</STRONG> option will take off
       this restriction, allowing all capabilities to  be  output
       in  <EM>termcap</EM>  form.  Normally you would use both the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> and
       <STRONG>-r</STRONG> options.  The  actual  format  used  incorporates  some
       improvements  for escaped characters from terminfo format.
       For a stricter  BSD-compatible  translation,  use  the  <STRONG>-K</STRONG>
       option rather than <STRONG>-C</STRONG>.

       Note that because padding is collected to the beginning of
       the capability, not all capabilities are  output.   Manda-
       tory  padding  is  not supported.  Because <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> strings
       are not as flexible, it is not always possible to  convert
       a  <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  string  capability into an equivalent <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>
       format.  A subsequent conversion of the <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> file  back
       into  <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  format  will not necessarily reproduce the
       original <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> source.

       Some common <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> parameter  sequences,  their  <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>
       equivalents,  and  some terminal types which commonly have
       such sequences, are:

     <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>                    <STRONG>termcap</STRONG>   Representative Terminals
     ---------------------------------------------------------------
     <STRONG>%p1%c</STRONG>                       <STRONG>%.</STRONG>        adm
     <STRONG>%p1%d</STRONG>                       <STRONG>%d</STRONG>        hp, ANSI standard, vt100
     <STRONG>%p1%'x'%+%c</STRONG>                 <STRONG>%+x</STRONG>       concept
     <STRONG>%i</STRONG>                          <STRONG>%i</STRONG>q       ANSI standard, vt100
     <STRONG>%p1%?%'x'%&gt;%t%p1%'y'%+%;</STRONG>    <STRONG>%&gt;xy</STRONG>      concept
     <STRONG>%p2</STRONG> is printed before <STRONG>%p1</STRONG>   <STRONG>%r</STRONG>        hp

   <STRONG>Use=</STRONG> <STRONG>Option</STRONG> <STRONG>[-u]</STRONG>
       The <STRONG>-u</STRONG> option produces a <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG>  source  description  of
       the  first  terminal <EM>termname</EM> which is relative to the sum
       of the descriptions given by the  entries  for  the  other
       terminals  <EM>termnames</EM>.   It does this by analyzing the dif-
       ferences  between  the  first  <EM>termname</EM>  and   the   other
       <EM>termnames</EM> and producing a description with <STRONG>use=</STRONG> fields for
       the other terminals.  In this manner, it  is  possible  to
       retrofit   generic  terminfo  entries  into  a  terminal's
       description.  Or, if two similar terminals exist, but were
       coded  at  different  times or by different people so that
       each description is a full description, using <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> will
       show what can be done to change one description to be rel-
       ative to the other.

       A capability will get printed with an at-sign (@) if it no
       longer  exists in the first <EM>termname</EM>, but one of the other
       <EM>termname</EM> entries contains a value for it.  A  capability's
       value  gets  printed if the value in the first <EM>termname</EM> is
       not found in any of the other <EM>termname</EM> entries, or if  the
       first of the other <EM>termname</EM> entries that has this capabil-
       ity gives a different value for the capability  than  that
       in the first <EM>termname</EM>.

       The  order  of  the other <EM>termname</EM> entries is significant.
       Since the terminfo compiler <STRONG>tic</STRONG> does a left-to-right  scan
       of the capabilities, specifying two <STRONG>use=</STRONG> entries that con-
       tain differing entries for the same capabilities will pro-
       duce  different  results  depending  on the order that the
       entries are given in.  <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> will flag any  such  incon-
       sistencies  between the other <EM>termname</EM> entries as they are
       found.

       Alternatively, specifying a capability <EM>after</EM> a <STRONG>use=</STRONG>  entry
       that contains that capability will cause the second speci-
       fication to be  ignored.   Using  <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>  to  recreate  a
       description can be a useful check to make sure that every-
       thing was  specified  correctly  in  the  original  source
       description.

       Another  error  that  does  not  cause  incorrect compiled
       files, but will slow down the compilation time, is  speci-
       fying  extra  <STRONG>use=</STRONG>  fields  that are superfluous.  <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>
       will flag any other <EM>termname</EM> <EM>use=</EM>  fields  that  were  not
       needed.

   <STRONG>Changing</STRONG> <STRONG>Databases</STRONG> <STRONG>[-A</STRONG> <EM>directory</EM>] [-B <EM>directory</EM>]
       Like other <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> utilities, infocmp looks for the termi-
       nal descriptions in several places.  You can use the  <STRONG>TER-</STRONG>
       <STRONG>MINFO</STRONG>  and <STRONG>TERMINFO_DIRS</STRONG> environment variables to override
       the compiled-in default list  of  places  to  search  (see
       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> for details).

       You  can  also  use  the options <STRONG>-A</STRONG> and <STRONG>-B</STRONG> to override the
       list of places to search when comparing terminal  descrip-
       tions:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   The <STRONG>-A</STRONG> option sets the location for the first <EM>termname</EM>

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   The   <STRONG>-B</STRONG>  option  sets  the  location  for  the  other
           <EM>termnames</EM>.

       Using these options, it is possible  to  compare  descrip-
       tions  for  a  terminal  with the same name located in two
       different databases.  For instance, you can use this  fea-
       ture for comparing descriptions for the same terminal cre-
       ated by different people.

   <STRONG>Other</STRONG> <STRONG>Options</STRONG>
       <STRONG>-0</STRONG>   causes the fields to be printed on one line,  without
            wrapping.

       <STRONG>-1</STRONG>   causes  the  fields  to be printed out one to a line.
            Otherwise, the fields will be printed  several  to  a
            line to a maximum width of 60 characters.

       <STRONG>-a</STRONG>   tells  <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG>  to  retain commented-out capabilities
            rather than discarding them.  Capabilities  are  com-
            mented by prefixing them with a period.

       <STRONG>-D</STRONG>   tells <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> to print the database locations that it
            knows about, and exit.

       <STRONG>-E</STRONG>   Dump  the  capabilities  of  the  given  terminal  as
            tables,  needed  in  the C initializer for a TERMTYPE
            structure (the terminal capability structure  in  the
            <STRONG>&lt;term.h&gt;</STRONG>).   This option is useful for preparing ver-
            sions of the curses library  hardwired  for  a  given
            terminal  type.   The tables are all declared static,
            and are named according to the type and the  name  of
            the corresponding terminal entry.

            Before  ncurses  5.0, the split between the <STRONG>-e</STRONG> and <STRONG>-E</STRONG>
            options was not  needed;  but  support  for  extended
            names required making the arrays of terminal capabil-
            ities separate from the TERMTYPE structure.

       <STRONG>-e</STRONG>   Dump the capabilities of the given terminal  as  a  C
            initializer  for  a  TERMTYPE structure (the terminal
            capability structure in the <STRONG>&lt;term.h&gt;</STRONG>).   This  option
            is  useful  for  preparing  versions  of  the  curses
            library hardwired for a given terminal type.

       <STRONG>-F</STRONG>   compare terminfo files.  This assumes that  two  fol-
            lowing   arguments  are  filenames.   The  files  are
            searched for pairwise matches between  entries,  with
            two entries considered to match if any of their names
            do.  The report  printed  to  standard  output  lists
            entries  with  no  matches  in  the  other  file, and
            entries with more than one match.  For  entries  with
            exactly  one  match  it includes a difference report.
            Normally, to reduce the volume  of  the  report,  use
            references  are  not resolved before looking for dif-
            ferences, but resolution can be forced by also speci-
            fying <STRONG>-r</STRONG>.

       <STRONG>-f</STRONG>   Display   complex   terminfo  strings  which  contain
            if/then/else/endif expressions indented for readabil-
            ity.

       <STRONG>-G</STRONG>   Display constant literals in decimal form rather than
            their character equivalents.

       <STRONG>-g</STRONG>   Display constant character literals  in  quoted  form
            rather than their decimal equivalents.

       <STRONG>-i</STRONG>   Analyze the initialization (<STRONG>is1</STRONG>, <STRONG>is2</STRONG>, <STRONG>is3</STRONG>), and reset
            (<STRONG>rs1</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs2</STRONG>, <STRONG>rs3</STRONG>), strings  in  the  entry.   For  each
            string,  the code tries to analyze it into actions in
            terms of the other capabilities in the entry, certain
            X3.64/ISO  6429/ECMA-48 capabilities, and certain DEC
            VT-series private modes (the set of  recognized  spe-
            cial  sequences  has  been  selected for completeness
            over the existing terminfo  database).   Each  report
            line  consists  of the capability name, followed by a
            colon and space, followed by a printable expansion of
            the  capability  string with sections matching recog-
            nized actions translated into  {}-bracketed  descrip-
            tions.   Here  is  a  list  of  the  DEC/ANSI special
            sequences recognized: i.

                  Action        Meaning
                  -----------------------------------------
                  RIS           full reset

                  SC            save cursor
                  RC            restore cursor
                  LL            home-down
                  RSR           reset scroll region
                  -----------------------------------------
                  DECSTR        soft reset (VT320)
                  S7C1T         7-bit controls (VT220)
                  -----------------------------------------
                  ISO DEC G0    enable DEC graphics for G0
                  ISO UK G0     enable UK chars for G0
                  ISO US G0     enable US chars for G0
                  ISO DEC G1    enable DEC graphics for G1
                  ISO UK G1     enable UK chars for G1
                  ISO US G1     enable US chars for G1
                  -----------------------------------------
                  DECPAM        application keypad mode
                  DECPNM        normal keypad mode
                  DECANSI       enter ANSI mode
                  -----------------------------------------
                  ECMA[+-]AM    keyboard action mode
                  ECMA[+-]IRM   insert replace mode
                  ECMA[+-]SRM   send receive mode
                  ECMA[+-]LNM   linefeed mode
                  -----------------------------------------
                  DEC[+-]CKM    application cursor keys
                  DEC[+-]ANM    set VT52 mode
                  DEC[+-]COLM   132-column mode
                  DEC[+-]SCLM   smooth scroll
                  DEC[+-]SCNM   reverse video mode
                  DEC[+-]OM     origin mode
                  DEC[+-]AWM    wraparound mode
                  DEC[+-]ARM    auto-repeat mode

            It also recognizes  a  SGR  action  corresponding  to
            ANSI/ISO  6429/ECMA  Set Graphics Rendition, with the
            values NORMAL, BOLD, UNDERLINE, BLINK,  and  REVERSE.
            All  but NORMAL may be prefixed with `+' (turn on) or
            `-' (turn off).

       An SGR0 designates an empty highlight sequence (equivalent
       to {SGR:NORMAL}).

       <STRONG>-l</STRONG>   Set output format to terminfo.

       <STRONG>-p</STRONG>   Ignore padding specifications when comparing strings.

       <STRONG>-q</STRONG>   Make  the comparison listing shorter by omitting sub-
            headings, and using "-" for absent capabilities,  "@"
            for canceled rather than "NULL".

       <STRONG>-R</STRONG><EM>subset</EM>
            Restrict  output  to  a given subset.  This option is
            for use with archaic versions of terminfo like  those
            on  SVr1,  Ultrix,  or  HP/UX that do not support the
            full set of SVR4/XSI Curses  terminfo;  and  variants
            such as AIX that have their own extensions incompati-
            ble with SVr4/XSI.  Available  terminfo  subsets  are
            "SVr1",  "Ultrix",  "HP",  and "AIX"; see <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
            for details.  You can also choose  the  subset  "BSD"
            which  selects only capabilities with termcap equiva-
            lents recognized by 4.4BSD.

       <STRONG>-s</STRONG> <EM>[d|i|l|c]</EM>
            The <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option  sorts  the  fields  within  each  type
            according to the argument below:

            <STRONG>d</STRONG>    leave  fields  in the order that they are stored
                 in the <EM>terminfo</EM> database.

            <STRONG>i</STRONG>    sort by <EM>terminfo</EM> name.

            <STRONG>l</STRONG>    sort by the long C variable name.

            <STRONG>c</STRONG>    sort by the <EM>termcap</EM> name.

            If the <STRONG>-s</STRONG> option is not given, the fields printed out
            will  be  sorted  alphabetically by the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> name
            within each type, except in the case of the <STRONG>-C</STRONG> or the
            <STRONG>-L</STRONG> options, which cause the sorting to be done by the
            <STRONG>termcap</STRONG> name or the long  C  variable  name,  respec-
            tively.

       <STRONG>-T</STRONG>   eliminates  size-restrictions  on the generated text.
            This is mainly useful for testing and analysis, since
            the compiled descriptions are limited (e.g., 1023 for
            termcap, 4096 for terminfo).

       <STRONG>-t</STRONG>   tells  <STRONG>tic</STRONG>  to  discard  commented-out  capabilities.
            Normally  when  translating from terminfo to termcap,
            untranslatable capabilities are commented-out.

       <STRONG>-U</STRONG>   tells <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> to  not  post-process  the  data  after
            parsing  the  source  file.   This feature helps when
            comparing the actual contents of  two  source  files,
            since  it  excludes the inferences that <STRONG>infocmp</STRONG> makes
            to fill in missing data.

       <STRONG>-V</STRONG>   reports the version of ncurses which was used in this
            program, and exits.

       <STRONG>-v</STRONG> <EM>n</EM> prints  out  tracing information on standard error as
            the program runs.  Higher values of n induce  greater
            verbosity.

       <STRONG>-w</STRONG> <EM>width</EM>
            changes the output to <EM>width</EM> characters.

       <STRONG>-x</STRONG>   print   information  for  user-defined  capabilities.
            These are extensions to the terminfo repertoire which
            can be loaded using the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option of <STRONG>tic</STRONG>.


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<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
       /usr/share/terminfo Compiled  terminal  description  data-
                           base.


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<H2>EXTENSIONS</H2><PRE>
       The <STRONG>-0</STRONG>, <STRONG>-1</STRONG>, <STRONG>-E</STRONG>, <STRONG>-F</STRONG>, <STRONG>-G</STRONG>, <STRONG>-R</STRONG>, <STRONG>-T</STRONG>, <STRONG>-V</STRONG>, <STRONG>-a</STRONG>, <STRONG>-e</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-f</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-g</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-i</STRONG>,
       <STRONG>-l</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-p</STRONG>,  <STRONG>-q</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>-t</STRONG>  options  are  not supported in SVr4
       curses.

       The <STRONG>-r</STRONG> option's notion of `termcap' capabilities is System
       V  Release  4's.   Actual  BSD curses versions will have a
       more restricted set.  To see only the 4.4BSD set,  use  <STRONG>-r</STRONG>
       <STRONG>-RBSD</STRONG>.


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<H2>BUGS</H2><PRE>
       The <STRONG>-F</STRONG> option of <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG> should be a <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG> mode.


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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
       <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>,     <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>,     <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>,    <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>,
       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.

       http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html

       This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20131221).


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<H2>AUTHOR</H2><PRE>
       Eric S. Raymond &lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt; and
       Thomas E. Dickey &lt;dickey@invisible-island.net&gt;



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