2 # $Id: capconvert,v 1.3 1997/08/02 21:52:06 tom Exp $
4 # capconvert -- automated conversion from termcap to terminfo
7 echo "This script tries to automatically set you up so that your applications"
8 echo "that now use termcap can use terminfo and the ncurses library."
11 # Note, except for telling if we're running under xterm we don't use TERM at
12 # all. This is because BSD users not infrequently have multiple termtypes
13 # selected by conditionals in tset -- unless they're xterm users, in which
14 # case they're on a workstation and probably don't.
16 # Check to make sure TERMINFO is not already defined
17 if test -n "$TERMINFO"
19 echo "TERMINFO is already defined in your environment. This means"
20 echo "you already have a local terminfo tree, so you do not need any"
22 if test ! -d $TERMINFO ; then
23 echo "Caution: TERMINFO does not point to a directory!"
28 # Check to see if terminfo is present in one of the standard locations.
32 /usr/share/lib/terminfo \
34 /usr/local/lib/terminfo \
35 /usr/local/share/terminfo
43 if test $terminfo = yes
45 echo "Your system already has a system-wide terminfo tree."
49 echo "You have no TERMCAP variable set, so we are done."
50 # Assumes the terminfo master covers all canned terminal types
53 if test "$TERM" = "xterm"
55 echo "You are running xterm, which usually sets TERMCAP itself."
56 echo "We can ignore this, because terminfo knows about xterm."
57 echo "So you will just use the system-wide terminfo tree."
60 echo "We will have to make a local one for you anyway, to capture the effect"
61 echo "of your TERMCAP variable."
64 echo "No system-wide terminfo tree. We will make you a local one."
68 # Check if test -x works (it's not portable, but useful)
70 TMP=test$$; touch $TMP && chmod 755 $TMP
71 if test $OPT $TMP ; then
73 test $OPT $TMP && OPT="-f"
79 # First step -- go find tic
81 IFS="${IFS= }"; save_ifs="$IFS"; IFS="${IFS}:"
94 echo "I see tic at $TIC."
97 if test $OPT ../misc/shlib ; then
98 TIC="../misc/shlib $TIC"
103 echo "You do not have tic installed anywhere I can see, please fix that."
108 # We have tic. Either there's no system terminfo tree or there is one but
109 # the user has a TERMCAP variable that may modify a stock description.
112 # Make the user a terminfo directory
113 if test -d $HOME/.terminfo
115 echo "It appears you already have a private terminfo directory"
116 echo "at $HOME/.terminfo; this seems odd, because TERMINFO"
117 echo "is not defined. I am not going to second-guess this -- if you"
118 echo "really want me to try auto-configuring for you, remove or"
119 echo "rename $HOME/terminfo and run me again."
122 echo "I am creating your private terminfo directory at $HOME/.terminfo"
123 mkdir $HOME/.terminfo
124 # Ensure that that's where tic's compilation results.
125 # This isn't strictly necessary with a 1.9.7 or later tic.
126 TERMINFO="$HOME/.terminfo"; export TERMINFO
130 # Find a terminfo source to work from
131 if test -f ../misc/terminfo.src
133 echo "I see the terminfo master source is handy; I will use that."
134 master=../misc/terminfo.src
136 # Ooops...looks like we're running from somewhere other than the
137 # progs directory of an ncurses source tree.
138 master=`find $HOME -name "*terminfo.src" -print`
139 mcount=`echo $master | wc -l`
142 echo "I can not find a terminfo source file anywhere under your home directory."
143 echo "There should be a file called terminfo.src somewhere in your"
144 echo "ncurses distribution; please put it in your home directotry"
145 echo "and run me again (it does not have to live there permanently)."
149 echo "I see a file called $master."
150 echo "I am going to assume this is the terminfo source included with"
151 echo "the ncurses distribution. If this assumption is wrong, please"
152 echo "interrupt me now! OK to continue?"
156 echo "I see more than one possible terminfo source. Here they are:"
157 echo $master | sed "/^/s// /";
160 echo "Please tell me which one to use:"
166 echo "That file does not exist. Try again?";
174 # Now that we have a master, compile it into the local tree
175 echo "OK, now I will make your private terminfo tree. This may take a bit..."
177 # Kluge alert: we compile terminfo.src in two pieces because a lot of machines
178 # with < 16MB RAM choke on tic's core-hog habits.
179 trap "rm -f tsplit$$.*" 0 1 2 5 15
181 -e '1,/SPLIT HERE/w 'tsplit$$.01 \
182 -e '/SPLIT HERE/,$w 'tsplit$$.02 \
184 for x in tsplit$$.*; do eval $TIC $x; done
188 echo "You now have a private tree under $HOME/.terminfo;"
189 echo "the ncurses library will automatically read from it,"
190 echo "and ncurses tic will automatically compile entries to it."
192 # We're done unless user has a .termcap file or equivalent named by TERMCAP
193 if test -z "$TERMCAP"
195 echo "You have no TERMCAP set, so we are done."
198 # OK, here comes the nasty case...user has a TERMCAP. Instead of
199 # trying to follow all the convolutions of the relationship between
200 # TERM and TERMCAP (partly because it's too painful, and partly because
201 # we don't actually know what TERM will be nor even if it always has
202 # the same value for this user) we do the following three steps...
204 if test -f $HOME/.termcap
206 echo 'I see you have a $HOME/.termcap file. I will compile that.'
207 eval $TIC $HOME/.termcap
209 echo "Note that editing $HOME/.termcap will no longer change the data curses sees."
210 elif test -f "$TERMCAP"
212 echo "Your TERMCAP names the file $TERMCAP. I will compile that."
215 echo "Note that editing $TERMCAP will no longer change the data curses sees."
217 echo "Your TERMCAP value appears to be an entry in termcap format."
218 echo "I will compile it."
219 echo $TERMCAP >myterm$$
223 echo "Note that editing TERMCAP will no longer change the data curses sees."
225 echo "To do that, decompile the terminal decription you want with infocmp(1),"
226 echo "edit to taste, and recompile using tic(1)."
228 # capconvert ends here