1 -- $Id: NEWS,v 1.577 2000/07/08 20:59:25 tom Exp $
3 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
4 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
6 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim.
7 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey.
9 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10 + document configure options in INSTALL.
11 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
12 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
13 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
14 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
15 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
16 list of generated functions.
17 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
18 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
19 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
21 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
22 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
23 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
24 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
25 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
27 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
28 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
29 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
30 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
31 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
32 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
33 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
34 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
35 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
36 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
37 examples cited in announce.html
38 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
39 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
40 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
41 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
42 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
43 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
44 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
45 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
49 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
50 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
51 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
52 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
53 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
54 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
56 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
58 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
60 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
61 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
62 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
63 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
64 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
67 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
68 that happen to render the same display colors.
69 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
70 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
71 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
72 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
73 normalized value for cursor_address.
74 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
77 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
78 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
79 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
80 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
81 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
82 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
83 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
84 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
85 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
86 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (from comment by
87 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
88 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
89 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
93 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
94 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
95 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
96 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
97 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
98 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
99 allows larger symbol tables.
100 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
101 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> for elf64_ia64
102 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> and MacOS X).
103 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
107 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
108 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
109 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
110 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
111 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
112 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
113 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
114 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
115 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
116 + add a "make libs" rule.
117 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
118 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
119 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
120 with existing ncurses libraries.
123 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
124 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
125 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
126 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
127 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
128 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
129 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
130 (from a patch by by Valeriy E Ushakov).
131 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
132 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
133 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
134 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
135 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
136 pair value (from bug report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
139 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
140 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
141 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
142 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
146 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
147 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
149 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some man-programs
150 that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
151 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
154 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
155 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
156 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
157 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
158 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
160 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
161 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
162 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
163 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
164 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
165 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
166 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
167 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
170 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
172 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
173 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
174 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
175 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
176 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
177 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
178 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
179 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
180 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
181 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
182 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
183 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
186 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
187 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
188 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
189 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
190 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander Lukyanov).
191 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
192 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
193 question by Tony L Keith" <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
194 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
195 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
196 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
197 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
198 means that it will not recur for that special case.
199 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
200 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
201 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
202 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
205 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
206 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
207 bg300-rv in esr's version.
208 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
209 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
210 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
211 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
212 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
215 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
216 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
217 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
218 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
219 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
222 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
223 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
224 improvement in setting default colors.
225 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
226 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
227 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
229 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
230 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
231 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
232 check for buffer overflow.
233 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
234 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
235 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
236 such as "infocmp -Fa".
239 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
240 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
241 is not permitted in termcap.
242 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
243 integrating 20000318.
246 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
247 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from Eric's version.
248 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
249 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
251 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
252 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
253 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
255 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
256 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
257 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
258 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
259 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
260 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
263 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
264 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
265 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
267 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
268 displaying string capabilities.
269 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
270 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
271 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
272 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
273 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
274 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
276 + adapted patch by Eric Raymond to make infocmp -F less verbose
277 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
279 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
280 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
281 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
282 may not produce the same result as before.
283 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
285 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
286 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
288 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
289 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
291 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
292 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
293 + drop support for gnat 3.10
294 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
295 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
298 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
299 made it check only one entry at a time.
300 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
302 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
303 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
304 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
305 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
306 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
307 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
308 address out of bounds.
309 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
310 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
311 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
312 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
314 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
315 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
316 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
318 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
321 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
322 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
323 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
324 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
326 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
327 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
328 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
329 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
330 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
331 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
333 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
334 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
335 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
336 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
337 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
338 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
339 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
340 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
343 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
344 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander Lukyanov).
345 > patches by Alexander Lukyanov:
346 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
347 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
348 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
352 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
353 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
354 > patches by Alexander Lukyanov:
355 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
356 colors are white on black.
357 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
358 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
359 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
360 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
361 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
364 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
365 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
366 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
367 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
368 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
369 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
370 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
371 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
372 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
373 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
374 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
377 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm.
378 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
379 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
380 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
381 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
382 to wait indefinitely.
385 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
386 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
387 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
388 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
389 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
390 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
391 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
392 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
393 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
394 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
395 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
396 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
400 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
401 programs build with c++/g++.
402 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
403 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
404 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
405 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
406 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
407 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
408 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
409 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
412 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
414 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
416 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
417 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
418 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
419 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
421 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
422 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
424 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
426 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
427 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
428 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
429 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
430 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0).
431 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
432 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
433 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
434 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
438 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
439 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
440 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
441 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
442 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
443 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
444 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
445 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
446 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
447 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
448 use_extended_names().
451 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
452 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
453 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
454 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
455 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
456 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
457 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
458 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
459 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
460 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
461 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
462 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
463 + add manpage for infotocap
466 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
467 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
468 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
469 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
471 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
472 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
473 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
474 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
475 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
476 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
477 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
478 initc for xterm-88color.
479 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
483 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
484 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
486 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
487 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
488 SP, since it is part of that struct.
489 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
491 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
492 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
493 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
494 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
495 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
496 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
497 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
498 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
499 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
501 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
502 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
503 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
504 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
506 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
509 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
510 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
511 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
512 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
513 over the use of default colors.
514 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
515 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
516 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
517 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
518 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
519 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
520 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
521 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
524 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
525 <robert@progplus.com>)
526 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
527 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
528 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
531 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
532 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
533 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
535 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
536 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
537 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
538 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
539 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
540 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
541 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
542 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
543 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
544 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
545 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
546 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
548 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
549 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
552 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
553 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
555 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
556 (request by Bob van der Poel).
557 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
558 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
559 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
560 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
561 libraries by default.
562 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
564 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
565 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
567 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
568 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
569 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
570 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
571 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
572 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
573 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
575 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
577 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
578 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
579 advice from Bela Lubkin).
580 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
581 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
582 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
583 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
584 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
585 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
588 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
591 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
592 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
593 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
594 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
595 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
596 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
597 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
598 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
599 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
600 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
603 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
604 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
605 Blain, comments by Alexander Lukyanov).
606 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
607 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
608 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, based on analysis by Philippe Blain
610 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
611 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
612 filename limitation (from Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
613 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
614 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
615 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
616 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
617 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
618 is used), and in color.
619 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
620 shared library rules.
623 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
624 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
625 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
626 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
627 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
628 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
629 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
630 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
631 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
632 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
633 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
634 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
635 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
636 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
637 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
638 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
639 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
642 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
643 <j@interface-business.de>).
644 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
645 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
646 that hard-links work on Unix again.
647 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 as suggested by
648 Jeremy Buhler, making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
649 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
652 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
653 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
654 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
655 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
656 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
657 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
658 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
659 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
660 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
661 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
662 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
663 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
664 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
667 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
668 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
669 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
670 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
671 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (from
672 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup item by Peter Edwards
673 <peter.edwards@ireland.com>).
674 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
675 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
676 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
677 function works only for sockets.
678 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
679 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
680 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
681 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
682 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
683 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
684 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
685 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
686 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
687 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
690 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
691 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
692 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
693 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
694 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
695 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
696 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
699 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
700 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
701 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in them.
702 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
703 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
704 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
705 nonfunctional link().
706 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
707 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
710 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
711 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
712 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
715 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
716 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
717 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
718 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
719 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
720 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
721 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
722 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
723 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
724 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
725 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
726 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
727 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A changed
728 background attribute affects only further outputs of background it
729 doesn't mean anything to the current content of the window. So there
730 is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank Heckenbach
732 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
733 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
734 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
737 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
738 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
739 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
740 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
741 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
742 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
743 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
744 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
745 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
746 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
747 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
748 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
749 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
750 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
751 short-circuit expression evaluation.
752 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
753 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
755 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
756 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
757 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
758 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
759 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
763 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
764 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
766 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
767 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
768 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
771 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
772 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
773 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
774 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
775 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
776 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
777 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
778 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was not.
779 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
780 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
781 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
784 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
785 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
786 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
787 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
788 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
789 --with-rcs-ids option.
792 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
793 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
795 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
796 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
797 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
801 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
802 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
803 BeOS predefines a bool type.
804 + correct logic for infocmp -e option (i.e., the configure
805 --with-fallbacks option), which I'd not updated when implementing
806 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a -E
808 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
809 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
810 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
811 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
812 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
813 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
814 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
817 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
818 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
819 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
820 + change interface version-number to 1.0
821 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
824 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
825 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
826 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
827 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
828 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
829 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
830 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
831 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
832 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
833 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
835 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
836 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (from discussion
837 with Alexander Lukyanov).
840 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
841 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
842 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
844 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
845 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
848 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
849 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
850 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
851 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
852 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
855 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
859 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
860 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
861 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
862 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
863 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
865 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
866 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
867 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
868 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
871 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
872 fields, and showing forms within panels.
873 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
874 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
875 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
876 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
877 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
878 ownership may change).
881 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
883 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
884 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
885 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
886 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
887 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
888 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda" <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
890 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
891 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
892 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
893 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
894 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
895 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
898 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
899 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
901 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
902 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
903 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
904 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
907 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
908 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
909 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
910 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
911 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
912 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
916 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
917 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
918 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
919 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
920 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
921 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
922 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
923 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
926 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
927 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
928 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
932 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
933 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
936 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
937 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
938 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
939 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
940 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
941 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
942 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
943 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
944 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
945 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
946 reset for the next newterm.
947 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
948 terminal has true SLKs.
949 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
952 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
953 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
954 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
955 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
956 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
957 read of the extended capabilities.
958 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
959 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
960 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
961 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
962 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
963 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
964 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
965 throughout ncurses library.
966 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
967 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
969 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
970 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
971 + regenerate some of the html documentation
972 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
975 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
976 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
977 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
978 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
979 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
981 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
983 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
984 defined for a keycode.
985 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
986 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
987 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
988 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
989 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
991 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander Lukyanov).
992 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
993 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
994 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
996 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
997 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
999 + modify configuration scripts to
1000 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
1001 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
1002 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
1003 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
1004 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
1005 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
1006 + rename ada_include directory to src.
1009 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
1010 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
1011 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
1015 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
1016 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
1017 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
1018 though the problem is more general.
1019 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
1020 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
1021 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
1022 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
1024 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
1025 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
1026 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
1029 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
1030 Alexander Lukyanov).
1031 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
1032 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
1033 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
1034 operation (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
1035 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
1036 be any substring rather than the prefix.
1037 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
1038 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
1039 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich, who says that he has
1040 seen messages claiming this behaviour conforms to the standard.)
1041 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
1042 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
1043 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
1044 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
1045 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
1046 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
1047 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
1048 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
1049 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
1050 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
1051 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
1052 --with-shlib-version option.
1055 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
1056 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
1057 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
1058 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
1059 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
1060 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
1061 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
1062 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
1063 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
1064 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
1065 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
1066 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
1067 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
1068 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
1069 source distribution.
1072 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
1073 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
1074 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
1076 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
1077 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
1078 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
1079 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
1080 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
1083 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
1086 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
1087 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
1088 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
1089 Alexander Lukyanov).
1090 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
1091 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
1092 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
1093 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
1094 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1095 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
1096 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
1097 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
1098 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
1099 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
1101 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
1102 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
1103 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
1104 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
1107 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
1109 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
1110 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
1111 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
1112 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
1113 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
1114 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
1115 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
1116 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
1117 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
1118 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
1119 characters (from a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from Michael
1120 Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
1121 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
1122 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
1123 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
1124 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
1125 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
1129 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
1130 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
1131 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
1132 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
1133 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
1134 running screen built with ncurses.
1135 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
1136 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
1137 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
1140 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
1143 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
1144 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
1145 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (from a
1147 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
1148 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur changes
1149 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
1150 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
1151 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
1152 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
1156 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
1157 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
1158 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
1159 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
1160 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
1161 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
1162 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
1163 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
1164 (reported by H.J.Lu).
1167 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
1168 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
1169 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
1170 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
1171 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
1172 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
1173 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
1174 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
1175 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
1176 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
1177 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1178 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
1180 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
1181 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
1183 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
1185 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
1187 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
1188 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
1192 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
1193 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
1194 address rather than its length.
1195 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
1196 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
1197 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
1198 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
1199 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
1200 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
1201 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
1202 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
1203 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
1204 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
1207 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
1208 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
1210 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
1211 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
1212 for an older version of ncurses.
1213 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
1214 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
1215 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
1216 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
1217 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
1218 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
1219 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
1220 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
1221 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1222 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
1223 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
1224 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
1226 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
1227 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
1230 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
1231 (request by Larry Virden).
1232 > patches/discussion by Alexander Lukyanov:
1233 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
1234 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander Lukyanov's proposed
1235 changes to ncurses library.
1236 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
1237 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
1238 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
1239 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1240 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
1241 + some Ada95 cosmetics
1242 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
1243 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
1244 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
1247 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
1248 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
1249 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
1250 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander Lukyanov's proposed
1251 changes to ncurses library.
1252 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
1253 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
1254 broken configure scripts.
1257 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
1259 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
1260 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
1261 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
1263 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
1264 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
1268 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
1269 with --srcdir option.
1270 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
1271 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
1272 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris' version,
1273 which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
1274 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
1275 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
1278 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
1279 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
1280 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
1282 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
1283 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
1284 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
1285 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
1286 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
1287 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
1288 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
1289 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
1292 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
1293 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
1296 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
1297 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
1298 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
1299 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
1300 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
1301 some older entries - TD
1302 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
1303 since that is a little more efficient.
1304 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
1305 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
1306 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
1307 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
1308 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
1309 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
1311 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
1313 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
1314 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
1316 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
1317 + use format string for printing strings.
1318 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
1321 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
1322 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
1323 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
1324 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
1325 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
1326 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
1327 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
1328 > patches by Todd C Miller:
1329 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
1330 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
1331 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
1332 dealing with env variables again.
1333 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
1334 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
1335 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
1336 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
1337 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
1338 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
1339 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
1340 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
1341 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
1342 newhash data to SP struct.
1343 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
1344 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the function's
1345 parameter which is deleted.
1346 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
1347 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
1348 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
1349 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
1353 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for consistent
1355 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
1356 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
1357 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
1358 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
1361 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
1362 capability name, as in SVr4.
1363 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
1364 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
1365 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
1368 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
1369 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
1370 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
1371 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
1372 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
1373 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
1374 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
1375 > from esr's terminfo version:
1376 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
1377 + dtterm enacs correction from Alexander V Lukyanov.
1378 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
1381 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
1382 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
1383 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
1384 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
1385 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
1386 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
1387 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
1388 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
1389 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
1390 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
1394 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h> when
1395 termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
1396 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
1397 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
1398 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
1401 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
1402 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
1406 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
1407 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
1408 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
1409 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
1410 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
1411 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
1412 as obtained via ioctl.
1415 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
1416 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
1417 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
1418 turning attributes off.
1419 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
1420 initializing multiple screens.
1421 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
1422 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
1423 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
1426 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
1427 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
1428 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
1429 with Solaris curses).
1430 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
1431 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
1432 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
1433 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
1434 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
1435 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
1436 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
1437 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
1440 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
1441 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
1442 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
1443 (request by QingLong).
1444 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and --with-manpage-renames
1445 (request by QingLong).
1446 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
1447 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
1449 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
1450 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
1451 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
1452 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
1453 otherwise simply exit with an error.
1456 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
1457 "_g" for a debug build).
1458 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
1459 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
1460 compile/link working Ada95 program.
1461 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
1462 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
1463 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
1464 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
1465 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
1466 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
1470 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
1471 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
1472 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
1473 corresponds to vt100.
1474 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
1475 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
1478 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
1479 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
1480 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
1481 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
1482 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
1483 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
1484 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
1485 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
1486 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
1487 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
1490 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
1491 several minor errors/omissions.
1492 + implement tparm %l format.
1493 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
1495 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
1498 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
1499 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
1500 to be written to large screens.
1501 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
1502 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
1503 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
1504 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
1505 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
1507 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
1508 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
1509 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
1510 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
1513 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
1515 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
1517 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
1518 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
1519 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
1520 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
1521 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
1522 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
1523 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
1525 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
1526 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
1528 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
1531 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
1532 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
1533 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
1534 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
1535 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
1536 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
1537 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
1538 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
1539 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
1540 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
1543 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
1544 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
1545 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
1546 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
1547 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
1548 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
1549 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
1550 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
1551 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
1552 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
1553 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
1554 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
1555 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
1558 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
1559 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
1560 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
1561 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
1562 which contains a colon in the description field.
1563 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries
1564 (from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item by Mike Hopkirk
1566 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
1568 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
1569 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
1572 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
1573 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
1575 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
1576 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
1577 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
1578 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
1579 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
1580 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
1581 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
1582 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
1583 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
1584 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
1585 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
1586 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
1587 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
1588 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
1589 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
1590 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
1591 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
1592 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
1593 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
1594 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
1595 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
1596 comparisons out of inner loop.
1599 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
1600 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
1601 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
1602 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
1603 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
1604 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
1605 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
1606 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
1607 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
1609 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
1610 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
1611 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
1614 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
1615 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
1616 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
1617 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
1618 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
1619 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
1620 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
1621 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
1622 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
1623 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
1626 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
1627 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
1628 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
1629 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
1631 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
1632 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
1633 by Juergen Pfeifer).
1636 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
1637 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
1640 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
1641 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
1642 uses them when they are available.
1643 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
1644 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
1645 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
1646 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
1648 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
1651 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
1652 declared (from Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
1653 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J.T.Conklin).
1654 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
1656 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
1657 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
1658 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
1659 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
1660 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
1661 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
1662 use --disable-overwrite).
1663 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
1664 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
1665 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
1666 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
1667 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
1668 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
1669 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
1670 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
1671 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
1675 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
1676 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
1677 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
1678 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
1679 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
1680 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
1681 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
1682 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
1684 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 from Eric's webpage.
1685 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
1686 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
1687 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
1689 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
1690 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
1691 parameter according to XSI.
1692 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
1693 reflect above enhancements.
1696 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
1697 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
1698 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
1699 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
1701 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
1703 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
1705 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
1706 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
1707 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 from Eric.
1710 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
1711 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
1712 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1713 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
1714 <claesg@algonet.se>).
1715 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
1716 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
1719 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
1720 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
1721 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
1723 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
1724 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
1725 by Florian La Roche).
1726 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
1727 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
1728 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
1729 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1732 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
1733 distributions, though it is retained in development.
1734 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
1736 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
1737 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
1738 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
1739 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
1740 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
1743 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
1745 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
1746 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
1747 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
1748 > patch by J.T.Conklin, to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses
1749 (reduces size by up to 2.6kb):
1750 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
1752 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
1753 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
1754 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
1756 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
1757 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
1758 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
1761 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
1762 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
1764 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
1765 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
1767 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD 2.1.5
1768 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
1770 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
1772 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
1773 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
1774 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
1775 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
1776 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
1778 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit dependency
1779 to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make' programs.
1780 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
1781 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
1782 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
1783 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
1784 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
1785 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
1786 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
1787 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
1788 turn off attributes inconsistently.
1791 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
1792 test for no_color_video.
1793 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
1795 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
1796 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
1797 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
1799 > from reports by Fred Fish:
1800 + add configure-test for isascii
1801 + add configure-test for -lm library.
1802 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
1803 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
1804 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
1805 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
1806 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
1807 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
1808 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
1810 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
1811 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
1813 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
1814 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
1815 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
1816 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
1817 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
1820 + correct initialization of color-pair (from 970524) in xmas.c, which
1821 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
1823 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
1825 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
1826 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
1827 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
1829 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
1830 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
1832 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
1834 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
1835 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
1836 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
1837 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
1838 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
1839 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
1840 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1841 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
1842 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
1843 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
1844 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
1845 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
1846 fields are also always inactive.
1847 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
1848 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
1851 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
1852 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
1853 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
1854 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
1855 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
1856 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
1857 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
1858 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
1859 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
1862 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
1863 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
1864 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
1865 defined (from O'Reilly book).
1866 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
1868 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (from J.J.G.Ripoll, who says
1869 EMX's curses does this).
1870 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
1871 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
1872 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
1873 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
1874 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
1875 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
1876 cross-platform compatibility.
1877 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
1878 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
1879 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1880 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
1882 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
1886 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
1887 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
1888 EMX from J.J.G.Ripoll.
1889 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
1890 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
1891 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
1892 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
1893 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
1894 that simply cannot scroll.
1895 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
1896 embedded \200 characters are matched.
1897 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
1901 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
1902 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
1903 functions from the build.
1904 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
1905 functions as a separate library.
1906 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
1907 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
1908 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
1909 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
1910 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
1911 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
1912 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
1913 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
1914 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
1916 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1917 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
1918 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
1921 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
1922 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
1924 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
1925 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
1926 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
1927 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
1930 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
1931 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
1932 + add configure check for 'tack'.
1933 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
1934 for Debian configuration.
1935 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
1937 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
1938 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
1940 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
1941 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
1942 case of wide characters in chtype.
1943 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
1944 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
1945 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
1948 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
1949 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
1950 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
1951 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
1952 have set root's umask to 077.
1953 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
1954 end of output when they had embedded comments.
1955 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
1956 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
1957 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
1958 correct logic for handling backslashes.
1959 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
1960 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
1961 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
1962 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
1963 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
1964 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
1966 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1967 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
1969 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
1970 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
1972 + resync of the html version of the manpages
1975 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
1976 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
1978 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
1979 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
1980 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
1981 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
1982 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1983 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
1984 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
1985 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
1989 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
1991 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
1992 comments from Daniel Weaver.
1993 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
1994 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
1995 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
1996 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by.
1998 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
1999 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
2000 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by.
2002 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
2003 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
2006 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
2010 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
2011 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
2012 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
2013 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
2014 in call to delay_output().
2015 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
2016 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
2017 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
2018 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
2019 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
2021 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
2022 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
2023 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
2024 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
2025 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
2026 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
2027 so that will work on NeXT.
2028 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
2029 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
2032 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in XSI.
2033 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
2035 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
2036 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
2037 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
2038 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
2039 when that feature is not configured.
2040 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
2041 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
2042 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
2043 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
2044 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
2045 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
2046 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
2047 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
2050 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
2052 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
2053 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
2055 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
2057 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
2058 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
2061 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
2062 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
2063 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
2064 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
2065 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
2066 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
2067 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
2068 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
2069 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
2071 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
2072 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
2073 tputs() if called from that function.
2074 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
2075 tputs works when SP is not set.
2076 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2077 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
2078 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
2079 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
2080 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
2081 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
2084 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
2085 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
2086 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
2087 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
2088 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
2089 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
2090 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
2091 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
2092 _nc_update_screensize().
2093 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
2095 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
2096 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
2097 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
2098 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2099 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
2100 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2101 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
2102 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
2103 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
2104 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
2106 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
2110 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
2111 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
2112 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
2114 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
2115 click-interval without modifying it.
2116 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
2117 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
2119 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
2120 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
2121 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
2122 other ncurses headers.
2123 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
2124 > minor interface changes (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>,
2125 to support 'tack' program):
2126 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
2127 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
2128 characters output in delay_output().
2129 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
2130 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
2131 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
2132 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2133 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
2135 + typo in configure --help.
2136 > patch by J.T.Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
2137 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
2138 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
2139 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
2142 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2143 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
2146 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
2147 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
2148 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
2149 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
2150 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
2152 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
2153 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
2154 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
2155 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
2156 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
2157 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
2158 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
2159 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
2160 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
2161 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
2162 form (sorted, unique mapping).
2163 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
2164 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
2165 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2166 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention (suggested
2167 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2168 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2169 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
2170 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
2171 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
2172 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
2173 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
2174 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
2175 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2176 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
2178 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
2179 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
2180 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
2181 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
2182 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
2183 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
2187 + add 'deinstall' rules.
2188 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
2189 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
2190 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
2191 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
2192 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
2193 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
2195 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
2196 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2197 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
2199 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
2200 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
2201 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
2202 scripts are also provided.
2205 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
2207 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
2208 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
2209 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
2210 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
2211 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
2212 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
2213 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
2214 generating lint library.
2215 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
2217 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
2218 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
2219 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
2220 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
2221 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
2222 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
2223 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
2224 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
2225 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
2226 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
2228 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2229 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
2231 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
2233 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
2234 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
2235 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
2236 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
2237 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
2238 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
2239 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2240 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
2241 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
2245 + modify rain.c to use color.
2246 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
2247 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
2248 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
2249 of configure cache variables in 970906.
2250 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
2251 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
2252 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
2253 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
2254 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
2255 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
2256 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
2257 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
2258 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
2259 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2260 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form fieldtype.
2261 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
2262 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
2263 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
2264 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
2266 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
2267 NCursesWindow class.
2268 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
2269 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
2270 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
2271 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
2273 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
2274 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
2275 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
2276 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
2277 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
2278 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
2280 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
2281 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
2282 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
2283 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
2284 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
2285 already disconnected.
2286 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
2287 navigation requests.
2288 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
2289 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
2290 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
2291 forms field by index.
2292 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
2294 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
2295 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
2296 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
2297 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
2298 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
2299 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
2300 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
2301 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
2302 move of subwindows. Fixed update behaviour of movements of regular
2304 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
2305 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
2306 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
2308 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
2309 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2310 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
2311 know that auto_right_margin is true.
2312 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
2313 shifting character to LR corner.
2314 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
2315 terminal right margin mode is known.
2316 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
2317 _nc_scroll_window().
2318 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
2319 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
2321 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
2322 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
2323 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
2324 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
2326 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
2327 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
2328 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
2329 the terminal window is resized.
2332 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
2333 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
2334 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
2335 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
2336 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
2337 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
2338 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
2339 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
2340 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2341 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
2342 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
2344 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
2345 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
2346 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
2348 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
2349 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
2351 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
2355 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
2356 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
2357 lib_printw.c functions.
2358 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
2359 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
2360 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
2361 force the screen to scroll.
2364 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
2366 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
2368 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
2369 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
2371 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
2372 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
2373 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2374 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
2375 was in the wrong order.
2376 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
2378 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
2380 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
2381 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
2382 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
2383 invoke wechochar() instead.
2384 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
2387 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
2388 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
2389 work properly when we add calls to that function.
2390 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
2391 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
2392 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2393 + several fixes to getch:
2394 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
2395 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
2396 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
2397 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
2399 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
2400 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
2401 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
2402 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
2403 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
2405 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
2406 line-breakout optimization
2407 + improve hashmap.c by
2408 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
2409 2. not marking lines with offset 0
2410 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
2411 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
2412 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
2413 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
2415 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
2416 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
2417 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
2418 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
2420 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
2422 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
2423 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
2424 stored/retrieved via set_term().
2425 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
2429 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
2430 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
2431 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
2433 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
2434 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
2435 before looking for (n)curses library.
2436 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
2437 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
2438 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
2439 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
2440 include ncurses_cfg.h
2441 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
2442 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
2443 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2444 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
2446 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
2447 common subexpressions.
2448 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
2449 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
2450 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
2451 against the background character.
2452 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
2453 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
2454 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
2455 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
2456 > patches by H.J.Lu for glibc integration:
2457 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
2458 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
2459 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
2460 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
2463 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
2464 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
2465 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
2466 terminal type ncr7900).
2467 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
2468 package is built with an install-prefix.
2469 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
2470 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
2471 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
2472 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
2473 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
2474 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
2475 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
2476 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
2477 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
2478 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2479 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
2480 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
2481 by Juergen Pfeifer).
2484 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
2485 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
2486 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
2487 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
2488 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
2489 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
2490 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
2491 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
2492 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
2493 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
2494 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
2497 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
2498 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
2499 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
2500 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
2501 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
2502 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
2503 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
2504 configuration of wide-characters.
2505 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
2506 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
2507 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
2508 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
2509 does not have getttynam().
2510 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
2511 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
2512 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
2513 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2514 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
2515 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2516 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
2517 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
2518 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
2519 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
2520 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
2524 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
2525 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2526 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
2527 options should be accompanied by a message.
2528 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
2529 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
2531 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
2533 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
2534 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
2535 better when csr is not available.
2536 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
2537 after failure to scroll one.
2538 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
2539 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
2540 case and wrong string in TRACE.
2541 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2542 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
2546 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
2547 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
2549 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
2550 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
2551 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
2552 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
2553 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
2556 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
2557 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
2558 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
2560 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
2563 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
2564 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
2565 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
2566 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
2567 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
2568 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
2569 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
2570 (reported by Larry Virden).
2571 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
2572 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
2574 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2575 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
2576 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
2577 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
2581 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
2582 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
2583 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
2584 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
2585 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
2587 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
2588 terminfo description to the stored strings.
2589 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
2590 terminfo descriptions.
2591 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
2592 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
2593 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
2594 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
2595 option is a stopgap.
2596 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
2597 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
2600 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
2601 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
2602 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
2603 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
2604 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
2605 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
2609 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
2610 lines in curscr that are shifted.
2611 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
2612 than a series of function calls.
2613 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
2614 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
2615 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
2616 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
2617 from report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
2618 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
2619 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
2620 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2621 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2624 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
2625 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
2626 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
2627 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
2628 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
2629 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
2630 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
2631 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
2632 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
2633 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
2634 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
2635 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
2636 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
2637 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
2638 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2639 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
2640 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2641 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
2642 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2645 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
2646 use only the fallback data.
2647 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
2648 terminal descriptions.
2649 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
2650 still assume there's an ncurses.h
2651 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
2652 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
2653 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
2654 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
2655 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
2656 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
2658 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
2659 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
2660 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
2661 a mailing-list thread started by kjahds@kjahds.com Nov'1995).
2662 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
2663 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
2665 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh Daniel).
2666 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
2667 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
2669 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
2671 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
2672 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
2673 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
2674 original implementation (1.9.6).
2675 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
2676 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
2677 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
2678 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
2680 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
2681 SVr4 headers (patch by J.T.Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
2682 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
2683 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
2684 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
2685 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2686 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
2687 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
2689 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
2690 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
2691 field is not possible.
2692 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
2693 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
2694 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
2695 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
2697 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
2698 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
2699 in forms/menus libraries.
2702 + add description of xterm-16color.
2703 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
2704 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
2706 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
2707 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
2708 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
2709 works properly w/o first doing "make".
2710 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
2711 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
2713 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
2714 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
2715 bounding box without tidying up).
2716 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
2717 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
2718 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
2720 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
2721 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2722 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
2723 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
2724 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2727 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
2728 option is specified.
2729 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and "--with-system-release"
2730 to assist in checking the generated makefiles.
2731 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
2732 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
2733 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
2734 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
2735 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
2736 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
2737 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
2738 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
2739 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
2740 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
2741 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
2742 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
2743 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
2744 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
2746 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
2747 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
2748 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2749 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
2750 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
2751 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2752 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
2753 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
2754 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2755 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
2756 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
2758 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
2760 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
2762 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
2763 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
2766 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
2767 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
2768 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
2769 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related warnings).
2770 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
2771 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
2772 during a call to newwin.
2773 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir is
2774 used (reported by H.J.Lu).
2775 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
2776 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
2777 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
2778 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2779 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
2780 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
2783 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
2784 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
2785 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
2786 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
2788 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
2791 970505 4.1 pre-release
2792 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
2794 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused unnecessary
2796 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
2797 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
2798 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
2799 overwrite of symbolic links.
2800 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
2801 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
2802 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
2803 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
2804 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
2805 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
2806 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
2807 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
2808 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
2809 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
2810 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
2811 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
2812 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
2813 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
2817 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
2818 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
2819 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
2821 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
2822 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
2823 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
2824 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
2825 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
2826 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
2827 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
2828 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
2829 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
2831 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
2832 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
2833 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
2834 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
2836 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
2837 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
2838 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2839 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
2840 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2841 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
2842 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
2843 + patch by Juergen Pfeifer for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS)
2844 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
2845 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
2849 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
2850 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
2851 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
2852 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
2853 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov, though
2854 with a perl script 970118).
2855 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
2856 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
2857 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
2858 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
2859 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
2860 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
2861 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
2862 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
2863 or redefinition within an acsc string.
2864 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
2865 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
2867 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
2868 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
2871 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
2872 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
2873 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
2874 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
2875 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
2876 match SVr4 documentation.
2877 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
2878 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
2879 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
2882 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (from 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
2883 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries.Brouwer).
2884 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
2885 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
2886 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
2887 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
2888 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
2889 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
2892 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
2893 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
2894 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
2896 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
2897 --enable/--with values.
2898 + add configure option --enable-big-core
2899 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
2900 + check for C++ builtin.h header
2901 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
2902 parameter from the expression.
2903 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when ncurses
2904 is integrated into larger systems (from diffs by H.J.Lu for libc).
2905 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
2906 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
2907 was true (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov 970124, also reported by
2908 Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> 970329).
2909 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
2910 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
2913 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
2914 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
2915 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
2916 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
2917 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
2920 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
2921 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
2922 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
2923 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
2924 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
2925 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
2926 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
2927 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
2928 (reported by Ward Horner).
2929 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
2930 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
2933 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
2934 even if "make all" is not done first.
2935 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
2936 expanded functions with ATAC.
2937 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
2938 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
2942 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
2944 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
2946 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
2949 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
2950 addressing request by Ward Horner.
2951 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
2952 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
2953 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
2954 a pointer-increment.
2955 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
2959 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
2960 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
2962 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
2963 (Alexander Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
2964 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
2965 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
2966 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
2967 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
2968 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
2969 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
2971 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
2972 (reported by Ward Horner)
2973 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
2974 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
2975 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
2976 (reported by Gary Johnson).
2977 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
2978 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
2979 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
2980 wrapping (Alexander Lukyanov).
2981 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
2982 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
2983 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
2984 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
2988 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
2989 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
2990 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
2991 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
2992 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
2993 (suggested by Alexander Lukyanov).
2994 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
2995 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
2996 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
2997 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
3000 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
3002 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
3003 the returned buffer.
3004 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
3005 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
3006 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd 960928).
3007 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite option use of $(LN_S).
3008 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
3009 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
3012 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
3013 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
3014 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
3015 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
3017 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
3018 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
3021 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
3022 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
3024 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
3026 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
3027 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
3028 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
3029 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
3031 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
3032 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
3033 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
3034 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
3037 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
3038 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
3039 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
3040 that machine - T.Dickey.
3041 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
3042 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
3043 linking against static libraries.
3044 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
3046 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
3047 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
3048 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
3049 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
3051 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
3052 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
3053 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
3054 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
3055 Alexander Lukyanov originally 960929, resync 970106).
3058 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
3059 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
3060 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
3062 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
3063 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
3064 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
3065 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
3066 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
3067 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
3070 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
3072 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
3073 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
3074 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
3075 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
3076 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
3077 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
3078 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
3079 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
3080 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
3081 insert/delete line method.
3082 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
3083 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
3084 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
3085 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
3087 961229 (internal alpha)
3088 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
3089 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
3090 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
3091 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
3092 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
3093 there is data on stdin.
3094 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
3095 descriptors, needed for GPM.
3096 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
3097 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
3098 prevented patch from working properly.
3099 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
3100 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
3101 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
3102 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 from Eric.
3105 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
3106 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
3108 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
3111 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
3112 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
3113 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
3114 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
3116 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
3117 solaris' curses does (Alexander Lukyanov 960829).
3118 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
3119 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
3120 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
3121 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
3123 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
3124 i.e., set current directory before linking.
3125 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
3126 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
3127 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
3128 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (Purify).
3129 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
3130 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (Purify). Tested
3131 and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
3132 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
3135 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
3136 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
3137 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
3138 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
3139 Solaris curses, which does this.
3142 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
3143 work with wider range of screen sizes.
3144 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
3145 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
3146 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
3148 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
3149 resize between endwin/refresh.
3150 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
3151 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
3152 terminal modes in 960907.
3153 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
3154 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
3156 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
3157 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
3158 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
3159 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
3160 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
3161 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
3162 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
3163 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people).
3164 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
3166 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
3167 (requested by Florian La Roche).
3168 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
3169 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche florian@knorke.saar.de)
3170 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
3171 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
3172 by lav@yars.free.net).
3175 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
3178 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
3179 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
3180 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
3181 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
3182 data used in ncurses library.
3183 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
3184 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
3186 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
3187 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
3188 beta may not be interchangeable).
3189 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
3191 961130 1.9.9g release
3192 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
3196 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer (mostly for panel):
3197 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
3198 to avoid warning messages.
3199 + the panel overlap detection was broken
3200 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
3202 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
3206 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3207 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
3208 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
3209 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
3210 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
3213 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
3214 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
3215 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
3220 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
3222 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
3224 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
3226 > patch #324 by Eric.
3227 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
3228 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
3229 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
3230 + add entry for color_xterm
3233 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
3234 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
3235 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
3236 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
3237 CANCELLED_STRING values.
3238 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
3239 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
3240 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
3241 delays when in autoplay mode.
3242 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
3243 Garside 94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk)
3244 > patch #322 by eric:
3245 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
3248 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
3249 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
3250 a spurious clear-screen.
3251 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
3252 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
3254 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
3255 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
3256 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
3260 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
3261 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
3262 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
3263 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
3264 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
3265 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
3267 + undo Eric's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
3268 distribution, as stated)
3269 + terminfo 9.13.18 (resync by Eric)
3270 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (Eric).
3271 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
3272 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
3273 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
3274 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
3275 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de>).
3276 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
3277 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
3281 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
3282 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
3283 file (lib_screen.c).
3284 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
3285 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
3286 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
3287 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
3288 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
3289 rendered as octal constants.
3290 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
3291 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
3292 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
3293 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
3294 in the top-level command-parser.
3295 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
3296 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
3298 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
3299 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
3300 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
3303 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
3304 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
3305 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
3306 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
3307 (reported by Tim Mooney).
3308 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
3310 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
3314 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
3316 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
3320 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
3321 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
3323 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
3324 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
3325 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
3326 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
3327 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
3328 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
3329 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
3330 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
3331 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander Lukyanov).
3332 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
3334 + fix behaviour for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen
3336 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
3337 > patch #321 by eric:
3338 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
3339 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
3340 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
3341 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander Lukyanov).
3344 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
3345 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
3346 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
3347 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
3348 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
3350 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
3351 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
3352 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
3353 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds.
3354 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (from #317), which
3355 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
3356 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
3357 clearok work properly (from report by Michael Elkins).
3358 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
3359 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
3360 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
3361 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
3362 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
3363 > patch 320 by eric:
3365 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
3366 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
3367 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
3368 > patch 319 by eric:
3369 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
3370 Michael Elkins) - untested
3371 > patch 318 by eric:
3372 + correction to #317.
3373 > patch 317 by eric:
3374 + re-add _nc_hash_map
3375 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
3376 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
3377 > patch 316 by eric:
3378 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
3380 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
3381 > patch 315 by eric:
3382 + merged A. Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
3384 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
3385 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
3386 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
3387 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
3390 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
3392 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
3393 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
3394 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
3395 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
3396 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
3398 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
3400 > patch 314 by eric:
3401 + Enhancement suggested by A. Lukyanov -- reset scroll region on
3402 startup rather than at wrapup time.
3403 + Fix suggested by A. Lukyanov, make storage of palette tables
3404 and their size counts per-screen for multi-terminal applications.
3405 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
3406 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
3409 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
3410 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
3411 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
3412 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
3413 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
3414 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
3415 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
3416 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
3417 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
3418 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
3419 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
3420 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
3421 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
3422 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
3423 + replaced Eric's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
3427 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3428 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
3429 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
3430 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
3432 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
3433 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
3434 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
3437 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
3438 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
3439 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
3442 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
3443 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3444 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
3445 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3448 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
3449 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
3450 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
3451 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
3452 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
3453 > patch 313 by eric:
3454 + add dtterm description
3455 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
3458 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
3459 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
3460 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
3461 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
3462 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
3465 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
3466 > patch 312 by eric:
3467 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
3468 > patch 311 by eric:
3469 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
3472 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
3473 (reported by William P Setzer)
3474 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
3475 (reported by Tim Mooney).
3476 > patch 310 by eric:
3477 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
3478 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
3479 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
3482 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
3484 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
3488 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
3489 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
3490 > patch 309 by eric:
3491 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
3492 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
3493 + add more symbols to infocmp.
3496 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
3497 Ju"rgen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
3498 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
3500 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be null),
3501 and tests that use it.
3502 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
3503 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
3504 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
3506 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
3507 > patch 308 by eric:
3508 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
3509 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
3512 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
3513 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
3514 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
3515 by several people: Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
3516 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
3517 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
3518 + terminfo patches #306/307 from Eric.
3519 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
3520 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
3523 + rollback Eric's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
3524 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
3525 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
3527 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
3528 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
3529 Philippe De Muyter).
3532 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
3533 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
3535 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (Eric).
3536 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path.
3538 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
3539 (reported by David MacKenzie).
3540 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
3541 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
3542 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
3543 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
3544 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
3545 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
3546 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
3550 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
3551 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
3552 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
3553 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
3554 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
3555 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
3556 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
3557 than function keys in 'g' test.
3558 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
3559 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
3560 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
3561 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
3563 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
3565 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
3566 msgwin needed scrollok set.
3567 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
3568 between PutRange and InsStr
3569 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David MacKenzie),
3570 and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if set.
3571 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
3574 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
3575 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
3576 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
3578 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
3579 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
3580 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
3581 _yoffset to WINDOW).
3582 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
3583 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
3584 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
3585 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
3586 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
3587 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
3588 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
3589 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
3590 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by Eric Raymond.
3593 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
3594 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
3595 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
3596 first entry in a list).
3597 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
3598 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
3601 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
3602 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
3603 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
3604 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
3605 with a shared-library configuration.
3606 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
3607 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
3608 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
3609 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
3610 builders to install into staging locations (from request by
3611 charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
3612 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
3614 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
3615 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
3616 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
3617 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
3618 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
3620 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
3621 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
3622 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
3623 invoked (refined by lav@yars.free.net).
3624 > patches 303 by eric
3625 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
3626 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
3627 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
3631 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
3632 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
3633 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
3634 + added rules for lintlib, lint
3635 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
3636 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
3637 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
3638 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error checking
3639 when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
3640 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
3641 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
3642 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
3643 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
3644 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
3647 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
3648 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
3649 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
3650 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
3651 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
3652 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
3654 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
3655 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
3656 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
3657 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen.Pfeifer@T-Online.de)
3660 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
3661 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
3662 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V. Lukyanov:
3664 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney: mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu).
3665 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter: phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be)
3666 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
3667 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
3669 > patches 299-301 by eric:
3671 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
3672 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
3673 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
3674 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
3677 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
3681 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
3682 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
3683 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
3684 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
3685 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
3686 > patches 297, 298 by eric
3687 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
3688 + added TRACE_IEVENT
3689 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
3690 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
3692 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
3693 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
3695 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
3698 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
3699 + fixes for locale (phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be)
3700 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
3701 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
3702 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
3703 "#include" if needed.
3706 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
3707 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
3710 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
3711 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
3712 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
3716 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
3717 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
3718 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
3719 > patches 295, 296 by eric:
3720 + new "-e" option of tic.
3721 + fix for "infocmp -e".
3722 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
3723 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
3724 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
3728 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
3729 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
3730 K&R-style substitution)
3731 > patches 293, 294 by eric:
3732 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
3733 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
3734 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
3735 + added trace support for TTY flags
3738 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
3739 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
3740 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
3741 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
3742 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting output
3743 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
3744 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
3746 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
3748 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
3749 copy-changed-lines behavior.
3750 * added and documented wresize() function.
3751 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
3752 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
3753 emitted before the first check.
3754 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
3755 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
3756 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
3757 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
3758 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
3759 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
3761 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
3762 * support for ESCDELAY.
3763 * small fixes for menu/form code.
3764 * the test directory has its own configure.
3765 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
3766 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
3767 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
3770 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
3772 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
3773 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
3774 * support infocmp -RBSD.
3775 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
3776 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
3777 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
3778 catastrophies or acts of God.
3779 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
3781 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
3782 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
3785 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
3787 * corrected return values of setupterm()
3788 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
3789 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
3790 one `use' capability.
3791 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
3792 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
3793 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
3794 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
3795 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
3796 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
3797 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
3798 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
3799 * added -h option to toe(1).
3800 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
3801 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
3802 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
3803 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
3805 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
3807 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
3808 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
3810 * mouse support for xterm.
3811 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
3812 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
3813 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
3814 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
3815 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
3816 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
3817 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
3818 * infocmp -T option added.
3819 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
3821 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
3823 * menus library is now included with documentation.
3824 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
3825 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
3826 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
3827 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
3828 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
3829 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
3830 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
3831 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
3833 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
3835 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
3836 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
3837 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
3838 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
3840 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
3842 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
3843 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
3844 * added tracemunch to the test tools
3845 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
3847 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
3849 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
3850 profile and shared object models.
3852 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
3854 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
3855 * panels support added
3856 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
3857 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
3859 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
3861 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
3862 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
3863 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
3864 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
3866 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
3867 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
3868 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
3869 are consistent (they weren't).
3870 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
3871 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
3872 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
3873 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
3875 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
3876 * more spelling fixes
3877 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
3878 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
3879 core in init_acs()).
3880 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
3883 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
3885 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
3886 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
3887 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
3889 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
3890 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
3891 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
3892 resolution of traces.
3893 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
3894 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
3895 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
3896 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
3897 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
3899 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
3900 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
3901 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
3902 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
3904 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
3905 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
3906 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
3907 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
3908 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
3909 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
3910 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
3911 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
3912 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
3913 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
3914 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
3915 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
3916 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
3917 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
3918 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
3919 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
3921 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
3922 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
3923 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
3924 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
3925 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
3926 the correct alternate character set.
3927 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
3928 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
3929 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
3930 a terminal is undefined.
3931 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
3932 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
3933 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
3934 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
3935 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
3936 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
3938 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
3939 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
3940 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
3941 if other attributes are turned off.
3942 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
3943 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
3944 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
3946 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
3947 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
3948 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
3951 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
3952 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
3953 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
3954 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
3956 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
3957 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
3959 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
3961 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
3962 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
3963 break operation with any emulators.
3964 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
3965 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
3966 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
3967 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
3968 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
3969 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
3970 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
3971 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
3973 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
3974 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
3976 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
3977 unpredictable results.
3978 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
3980 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
3981 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
3982 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
3983 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
3984 take note of the terminfo directory.
3985 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
3986 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
3989 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
3990 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
3991 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
3992 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
3993 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
3994 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
3995 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
3996 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
3997 performs more testing.
3998 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
3999 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
4001 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
4002 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
4004 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
4005 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
4006 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
4008 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
4010 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
4011 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
4012 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
4013 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
4014 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
4015 will probably continue to work ok.
4017 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
4018 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
4019 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
4020 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
4021 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
4023 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
4024 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
4025 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
4027 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
4028 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
4029 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
4030 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
4031 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
4032 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
4033 changed accordingly.
4034 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
4035 bottom-right corner.
4036 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
4037 pads I'd love a copy.
4038 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
4039 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
4040 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
4041 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
4042 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
4043 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
4044 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
4046 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
4047 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
4048 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
4050 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
4051 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
4052 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
4053 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
4054 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
4055 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
4056 * See src/README for porting notes.
4057 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
4058 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
4059 rows instead of lines, etc.)
4060 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
4061 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
4062 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
4063 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
4064 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
4065 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
4066 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
4068 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
4069 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
4070 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
4071 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
4072 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
4073 fact was exposed by hanoi.
4074 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
4075 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
4076 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
4077 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
4078 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
4079 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
4081 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
4083 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
4084 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
4085 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
4086 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
4087 Config.* files through an awk script.
4088 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
4089 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
4090 * a few minor cleanups.
4091 * added more prototypes in curses.h
4093 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
4095 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
4096 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
4097 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
4098 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
4099 * a couple of bug fixes.
4100 * a few code cleanups.
4102 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
4104 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
4105 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
4106 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
4107 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
4108 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
4109 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
4111 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
4112 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
4114 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
4115 (doesn't work on Linux)
4116 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
4117 screen before working.
4118 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
4119 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
4121 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
4122 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
4123 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
4124 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
4125 * several minor bug fixes.
4127 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
4129 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
4130 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
4131 * changes related to Config
4133 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
4135 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
4136 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
4137 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
4138 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
4139 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
4140 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
4141 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
4143 * fixed problems with asc_init()
4144 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
4145 * cleaned up vidputs()
4146 * general cleanup of the code
4147 * more attention to portability to other systems
4148 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
4149 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
4151 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
4152 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
4154 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
4155 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
4156 the rationale drop me a line.
4158 Included are several test programs in test/.
4159 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
4160 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
4162 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
4164 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
4165 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
4166 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
4167 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
4168 * keyname() is added.
4169 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
4170 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
4171 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
4172 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
4173 * included fixes from 0.6.1
4174 * added a few more missing functions.
4175 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
4176 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
4179 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
4181 1) Included the missing data/console.
4183 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
4185 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
4187 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
4188 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
4189 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
4191 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
4192 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
4193 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
4194 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
4195 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
4196 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
4197 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
4198 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
4199 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
4200 * added notimeout().
4201 * added timeout() define in curses.h
4202 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
4204 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
4205 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
4206 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
4207 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
4208 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
4209 * added slk_* support.
4210 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
4211 * added PANEL library.
4212 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
4213 * terminfo.h is really term.h
4215 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
4216 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
4217 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
4218 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
4219 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
4220 another key is pressed.
4221 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
4222 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
4223 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
4225 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
4226 * fixed bug in wvline().
4228 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
4229 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
4231 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
4232 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
4233 * Addition of function prototypes.
4234 * Addition of several missing functions.
4235 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
4236 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
4237 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
4238 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
4239 * New scrolling code.
4240 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
4242 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
4243 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
4244 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
4245 * more fixes for updates.
4246 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
4247 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
4248 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
4249 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
4251 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
4252 * support for color.
4253 * support for PC graphic characters.
4254 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
4255 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
4257 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
4258 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
4259 * ANSIfication of some functions.
4260 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
4261 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.