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        Is there a PD utility to translate between 'termcap' and
'terminfo' formats?  In administering an Ultrix system, I have gotten
fairly familiar with termcap, but we are getting in a lot of SGI Iris 4D
machines which use terminfo.
        I could hack a translation if TFM were more specific about what
the format of the terminfo file is, but the docs on the SGI machine (the
only SysV box I have access to) are unspecific to absent . . .

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Quote:>    Is there a PD utility to translate between 'termcap' and
> 'terminfo' formats?  In administering an Ultrix system, I have gotten
> fairly familiar with termcap, but we are getting in a lot of SGI Iris 4D
> machines which use terminfo.

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        Yup -- it's there, but the problem is that I need to define the SGI
Iris 4D-25 screen (for which I have a terminfo entry) to a VAX 11/750
(which uses termcap).

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Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 694-4792;  Home: (415) 969-2644

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Here's a summary of what i found out a while back about converting
and finding termcap/terminfo enties.

1) Modern SysVR3.2 (>2.0) have what you need as standard commands.

     captoinfo  -- for what it says
     infocmp    -- a close look shows the -C will output a termcap version
                   of a terminfo entry

2) For those who have a Sun the System V compatiability cmds (optionally
   installed) will have both captoinfo and infocmp.

3) PD shell scripts that do a captoinfo are available at archives. This
   might be useful for those on older sysV 2.0 systems and anything that
   did'nt have captoinfo.
   ( simtel20.army.mil  is one archive that has it,i believe)

4) None are perfect. My captoinfo conversion worked fine, some error
   mesgs. but the resultant entry was ok.  But remember, the two
   systems terminfo/termcap may do they same tasks but they do have
   features that are irreplaceable in the other. If it's a strange
   entry fine tuning may be neccessary. ( Maybe try the Nutshell
   Terminfo/termcap book for good detail on how.)

5) The net is a wonderful way to start. If the various termcap/terminfo
   entries sent to you aren't quite right at least you have something
   to start with when you write your own.

Tom Ritter