1 -- $Id: NEWS,v 1.714 2002/10/12 22:35:42 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 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
11 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
12 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
13 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
14 the debug trace in that case.
15 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
16 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
17 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
18 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
20 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
21 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
24 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
25 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
26 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
27 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
28 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
29 formats such as "%.*s".
30 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
31 (report Floyd Davidson).
32 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
34 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
35 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
36 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
39 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
40 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
41 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
43 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
44 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
45 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
46 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
47 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
48 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
49 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
50 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
51 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
52 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
53 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
54 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
55 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
56 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
57 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
58 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
59 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
60 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
61 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
64 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
65 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
67 + documented getbegx(), etc.
68 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
69 delimiter rather than '@'.
71 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
72 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
73 to the lines given for the destination window.
76 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
77 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
78 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
79 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
80 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
81 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
82 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
83 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
85 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
86 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
87 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
90 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
91 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
92 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
93 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
94 html manpages on Debian.
95 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
96 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
97 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
99 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
100 a variable from the stack.
101 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
103 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
104 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
105 _idcok window fields.
106 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
109 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
110 + update config.guess, config.sub
111 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
112 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
114 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
115 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
116 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
117 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
118 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
119 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
120 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
121 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
123 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
124 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
125 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
126 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
128 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
129 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
130 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
131 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
132 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
133 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
137 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
138 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
139 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
140 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
141 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
142 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
145 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
146 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
147 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
148 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
149 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
150 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
151 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
152 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
153 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
155 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
156 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
160 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
161 when translating to termcap.
162 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
163 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
164 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
166 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
168 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
169 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
171 + document TABSIZE variable.
172 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
173 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
174 assume_default_colors().
175 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
177 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
178 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
179 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
180 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
181 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
184 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
186 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
187 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
189 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
190 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
191 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
194 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
196 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
199 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
200 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
201 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
202 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
203 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
204 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
205 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
206 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
207 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
208 configure definitions.
209 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
210 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
211 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
212 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
213 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
214 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
215 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
216 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
217 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
218 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
219 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
222 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
223 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
224 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
225 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
226 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
227 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
228 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
230 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
231 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
232 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
233 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
236 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
237 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
238 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
239 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
241 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
242 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
243 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
246 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
247 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
249 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
250 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
251 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
253 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
254 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
255 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
256 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
258 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
259 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
260 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
261 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
265 + add charset to generated html.
266 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
267 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
268 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
269 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
270 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
271 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
275 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
276 key code in get_wch().
277 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
278 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
279 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
280 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
281 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
282 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
285 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
286 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
288 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
289 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
290 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
291 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
294 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
295 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
296 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
297 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
298 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
299 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
300 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
301 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
302 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
303 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
306 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
310 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
311 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
312 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
313 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
314 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
315 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
316 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
319 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
320 character versions as well.
321 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
323 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
325 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
326 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
327 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
328 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
329 if gettimeofday() is available.
332 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
333 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
336 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
338 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
339 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
340 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
341 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
342 + update config.guess, config.sub
345 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
346 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
347 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
348 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
349 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
350 alias for 'function'.
353 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
354 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
358 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
359 + implement wgetn_wstr().
360 + implement win_wchnstr().
361 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
362 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
365 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
366 vendor curses implementations (Solaris, AIX).
369 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
370 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
373 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
374 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
375 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
377 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
378 + implement unget_wch().
379 + implement wget_wch().
382 + regenerated html manpages.
383 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
384 + implement wins_wch().
385 + implement win_wch().
386 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
389 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
390 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
393 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
394 + document wunctrl, key_name.
395 + implement key_name().
396 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
398 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to these.
401 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
402 in spurious symlinks on install.
405 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
406 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
407 box() and box_set() functions.
408 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
409 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
410 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
411 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
412 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
413 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
414 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
416 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
418 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
419 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
420 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
421 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
423 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
424 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
427 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
428 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
430 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
434 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
436 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
437 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
438 Albert Chin-A-Young).
439 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
440 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
441 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
442 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
443 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
444 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
445 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
446 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
447 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
448 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
449 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
450 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
453 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
454 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
457 + update config.guess, config.sub
458 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
459 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
462 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
463 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
464 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
466 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
467 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by NIIBE Yutaka
469 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
470 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
471 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
472 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
475 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
478 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
479 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
480 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
481 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
482 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
483 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
484 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
485 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
486 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
488 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
489 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
490 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
492 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
494 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
495 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
496 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
497 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
498 work with SunOS nawk.
499 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
501 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
502 case it uses multiple tokens.
505 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
506 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
507 interrupted by that signal.
508 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
509 not needed with autoconf 2.52
510 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
511 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
513 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
514 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
515 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
516 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
517 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
520 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
522 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
523 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
524 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
525 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
526 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
527 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
528 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
529 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
532 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
533 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
534 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
535 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
536 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
537 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
538 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
539 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
540 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
543 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
544 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
545 may have different keypad() settings.
546 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
547 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
548 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
549 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
550 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
551 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
552 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
553 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
555 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
556 + update config.guess, config.sub from
557 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
558 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
562 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
564 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
565 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
566 implementation in cygwin package).
567 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
568 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
570 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
571 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
572 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
573 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
574 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
575 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
576 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
577 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
578 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
580 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
581 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
582 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
583 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
584 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
586 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
587 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
588 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
589 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
590 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
594 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
595 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
596 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
597 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
598 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
599 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
600 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
601 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
602 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
603 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
606 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
609 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
610 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
611 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
612 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
613 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
616 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
617 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
620 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
621 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
622 + implement wecho_wchar()
623 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
624 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
625 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
627 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
628 in a trace by using curly braces.
629 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
630 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
631 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
632 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
635 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
636 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
637 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
638 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
639 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
643 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
644 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
645 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
646 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
647 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
648 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
649 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
650 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
654 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
655 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
656 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
657 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
658 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
659 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
660 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
661 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
662 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
665 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
666 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
669 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
670 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
671 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
672 <bbraun@synack.net>).
673 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
674 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
676 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
677 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
679 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
680 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
683 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
684 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
685 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
686 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
687 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
689 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
690 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
692 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
693 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
694 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
695 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
696 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
699 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
700 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
702 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
703 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
704 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
705 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
708 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
709 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
710 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
711 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
712 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
716 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
717 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
718 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
720 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
722 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
724 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
726 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
727 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
728 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
729 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
730 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
731 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
732 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
733 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
734 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
738 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
739 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
740 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
741 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
742 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
743 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
744 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
745 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
746 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
747 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
749 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
750 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
751 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
752 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
753 supports xterm mouse controls.
754 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
755 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
756 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
757 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
758 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
759 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
760 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
761 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
762 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
764 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
768 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
769 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
770 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
771 + added llib-ncursesw.
774 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
775 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
776 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
777 header files (report by William P Setzer).
778 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
779 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
780 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
781 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
782 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
783 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
784 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
785 Albert Chin-A-Young).
786 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
787 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
788 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
789 obsolete with QNX RTP.
790 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
791 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
792 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
793 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
796 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
797 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
798 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
801 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
802 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
803 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
804 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
805 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
806 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
807 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
808 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
809 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
810 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
811 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
812 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
816 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
817 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
818 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
819 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
820 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
821 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
822 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
825 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
826 new wide-character structures.
827 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
828 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
829 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
830 compiling for wide-character configuration.
831 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
835 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
837 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
838 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
839 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
841 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
842 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
843 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
846 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
847 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
848 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
851 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
852 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
853 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
854 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
855 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
856 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
857 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
860 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
861 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
862 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
863 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
864 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
865 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
866 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
867 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
868 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
871 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
872 which may be in libutf8.
873 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
874 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
875 links (Debian bug report #99550).
876 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
877 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
878 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
879 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
880 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
881 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
882 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
883 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
886 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
887 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
890 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
891 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
892 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
893 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
894 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
896 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
897 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
898 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
899 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
900 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
901 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
902 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
903 are used to manipulate attributes.
904 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
905 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
906 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
907 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
908 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
909 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
911 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
912 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
913 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
914 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
915 we are using chtype data.
916 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
918 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
920 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
921 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
922 where a pointer would be more useful.
923 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
924 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
925 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
926 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
927 passing cchar_t's by address.
928 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
929 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
930 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
931 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
932 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
933 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
934 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
935 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
938 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
939 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
940 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
941 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
942 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
944 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
945 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
946 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
949 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
950 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
951 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
952 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
953 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
954 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
955 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
956 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
957 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
958 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
959 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
960 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
963 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
964 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
965 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
968 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
969 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
972 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
973 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
974 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
975 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
976 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
979 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
980 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
981 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
982 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
983 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
984 <bsittler@iname.com>).
985 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
986 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
987 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
988 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
992 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
993 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
994 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
995 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
996 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
997 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
998 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
1000 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>):
1001 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
1002 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
1003 any shots there, but the computer did.
1004 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
1005 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
1009 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
1010 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
1011 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
1012 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
1013 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
1014 <stefan@vogtner.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1017 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
1018 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
1019 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
1020 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
1021 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
1023 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
1025 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
1026 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
1028 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
1030 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
1031 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
1034 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
1035 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
1036 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
1037 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
1038 interface from C++ binding.
1039 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
1040 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
1041 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
1042 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
1044 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
1045 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
1046 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
1047 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
1050 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
1051 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
1052 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
1053 (patch by Todd C Miller).
1056 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
1059 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
1063 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
1064 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
1065 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
1066 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
1067 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
1068 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
1069 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
1070 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
1071 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
1072 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
1073 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
1074 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1077 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
1078 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
1080 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
1081 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
1082 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
1083 did not do this already.
1084 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
1085 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1086 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
1087 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
1088 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
1089 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
1090 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
1091 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
1094 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
1095 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
1098 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
1099 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
1100 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
1101 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
1103 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
1105 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
1106 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
1108 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
1109 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
1110 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
1111 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
1112 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
1115 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
1116 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
1117 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
1118 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
1121 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
1122 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
1123 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
1126 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
1127 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
1128 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
1129 work with 'indent').
1132 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
1133 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
1134 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1135 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
1136 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
1138 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
1139 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
1140 termcap and terminfo functions
1141 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
1145 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
1146 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
1147 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
1148 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
1149 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
1150 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
1152 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
1153 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
1154 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
1155 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
1156 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
1157 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
1158 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
1159 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
1162 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
1163 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
1164 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
1165 /usr rather than /usr/local.
1168 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
1169 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
1170 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
1171 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
1173 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
1174 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
1175 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
1176 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
1177 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
1178 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
1179 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
1180 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
1183 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
1184 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
1185 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
1186 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
1187 + change trace output to binary format.
1188 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
1189 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
1190 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
1191 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
1192 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
1193 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
1194 the overwrite logic.
1197 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
1198 + resync config.guess, config.sub
1199 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
1200 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
1201 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
1202 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
1204 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
1205 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
1208 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1209 + update generated html files from manpages.
1210 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
1212 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
1213 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
1214 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
1215 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
1216 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1217 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
1218 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
1219 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
1222 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
1223 wrapping at the right margin.
1224 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
1225 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
1226 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
1228 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
1229 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
1230 understands how to run tbl automatically.
1231 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
1232 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
1233 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
1234 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
1235 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
1236 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
1237 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
1238 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
1239 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
1240 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
1241 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
1242 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
1243 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
1244 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
1245 option --with-libtool.
1246 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
1247 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
1248 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
1249 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
1250 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
1253 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
1254 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
1255 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
1256 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
1257 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
1258 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
1259 > patch by Todd Miller:
1260 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
1261 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
1262 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
1263 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
1264 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich for OS/2 EMX:
1265 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
1266 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
1267 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
1268 to set up a 3-button mouse.
1269 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
1270 replace select() call.
1273 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
1274 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
1275 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
1276 Albert Chin-A-Young).
1277 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
1278 cursor report before decoding.
1279 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
1280 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
1281 (see assume_default_colors()).
1282 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
1283 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
1285 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
1286 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
1287 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
1289 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
1290 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
1291 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
1292 for that capability.
1293 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
1294 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
1295 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
1296 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
1297 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
1298 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
1301 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
1302 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
1303 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
1304 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
1305 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
1306 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
1307 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
1308 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
1309 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
1311 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
1312 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
1313 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
1314 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
1315 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
1316 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
1317 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
1320 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
1321 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
1322 The cursor restore would undo that (from a NetBSD bug report by John
1323 Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>).
1324 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
1326 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
1327 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
1328 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
1329 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
1330 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
1331 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
1332 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
1333 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
1334 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
1335 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
1336 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
1337 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
1338 the expected number of parameters.
1339 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
1340 the option value is indeed a number.
1341 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
1342 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
1343 from the other signals.
1346 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
1347 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
1348 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
1351 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
1352 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
1354 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
1355 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
1356 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
1358 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
1359 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
1360 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
1361 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
1362 character set attribute from the displayed text.
1363 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
1364 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
1365 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
1366 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
1367 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
1368 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
1371 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
1372 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
1373 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
1374 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
1375 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
1376 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
1377 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1378 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
1379 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
1380 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
1382 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
1383 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
1385 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
1386 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
1387 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
1388 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
1389 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
1390 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
1393 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
1394 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
1395 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
1396 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
1397 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
1398 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
1399 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
1400 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
1401 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
1402 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
1403 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
1404 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
1405 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
1406 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
1407 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
1409 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
1410 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
1411 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
1414 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
1415 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
1416 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
1417 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
1419 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
1420 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
1421 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
1422 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
1423 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
1424 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
1425 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
1427 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
1428 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
1429 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
1430 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
1431 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
1432 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
1433 a default program-prefix.
1434 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
1435 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
1438 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
1439 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
1440 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
1441 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
1442 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
1443 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
1444 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
1445 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
1446 although the name is misleading).
1447 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
1448 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
1449 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
1450 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
1453 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
1454 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
1455 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
1457 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
1458 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
1460 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
1461 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
1462 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
1464 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
1465 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
1466 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
1467 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
1468 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
1469 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
1470 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
1471 test/configure script.
1472 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
1473 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
1474 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
1477 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
1480 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
1481 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
1482 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
1483 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
1484 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
1486 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
1487 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
1488 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
1490 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
1491 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
1494 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
1495 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1496 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
1497 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
1498 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
1499 there's still the explicit configure option).
1500 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
1501 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
1502 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
1503 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
1504 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
1505 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
1506 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
1507 simplify working around implementations that define random
1508 combinations of the related macros to zero.
1509 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
1510 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
1511 > patches by Bruno Haible:
1512 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
1513 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
1514 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
1515 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
1519 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
1520 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
1521 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
1522 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
1523 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
1524 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
1525 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
1526 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
1527 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
1528 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
1529 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
1530 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
1531 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
1532 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
1535 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1536 + document configure options in INSTALL.
1537 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
1538 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
1539 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
1540 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
1541 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
1542 list of generated functions.
1543 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
1544 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
1545 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
1547 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
1548 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
1549 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
1550 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
1551 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
1553 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
1554 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
1555 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
1556 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
1557 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
1558 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
1559 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
1560 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
1561 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
1562 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
1563 examples cited in announce.html
1564 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
1565 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
1566 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
1567 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
1568 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
1569 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
1570 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
1571 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
1574 20000701 pre-release
1575 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
1576 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
1577 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
1578 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
1579 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
1580 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
1582 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
1584 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
1586 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
1587 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
1588 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
1589 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
1590 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
1592 20000624 pre-release
1593 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
1594 that happen to render the same display colors.
1595 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
1596 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
1597 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
1598 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
1599 normalized value for cursor_address.
1600 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
1603 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
1604 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
1605 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
1606 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
1607 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
1608 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
1609 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
1610 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
1611 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
1612 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (from comment by
1613 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
1614 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
1615 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
1619 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
1620 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
1621 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
1622 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
1623 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
1624 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
1625 allows larger symbol tables.
1626 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
1627 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> for elf64_ia64
1628 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> and MacOS X).
1629 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
1633 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
1634 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
1635 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
1636 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
1637 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
1638 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
1639 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
1640 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
1641 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
1642 + add a "make libs" rule.
1643 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
1644 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
1645 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
1646 with existing ncurses libraries.
1649 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
1650 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
1651 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
1652 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
1653 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
1654 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
1655 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
1656 (from a patch by by Valeriy E Ushakov).
1657 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
1658 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
1659 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
1660 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
1661 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
1662 pair value (from bug report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
1665 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
1666 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
1667 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
1668 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
1672 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
1673 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
1675 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
1676 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
1677 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
1680 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
1681 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
1682 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
1683 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
1684 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
1686 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
1687 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
1688 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
1689 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
1690 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
1691 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
1692 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
1693 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
1696 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
1698 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
1699 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
1700 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
1701 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
1702 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
1703 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
1704 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
1705 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
1706 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
1707 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
1708 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
1709 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
1712 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
1713 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
1714 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
1715 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
1716 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander Lukyanov).
1717 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
1718 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
1719 question by Tony L Keith" <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
1720 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
1721 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
1722 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
1723 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
1724 means that it will not recur for that special case.
1725 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
1726 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
1727 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
1728 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1731 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
1732 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
1733 bg300-rv in esr's version.
1734 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
1735 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
1736 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
1737 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
1738 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
1741 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
1742 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
1743 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
1744 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
1745 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
1748 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
1749 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
1750 improvement in setting default colors.
1751 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
1752 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
1753 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
1755 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
1756 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
1757 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
1758 check for buffer overflow.
1759 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
1760 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
1761 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
1762 such as "infocmp -Fa".
1765 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
1766 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
1767 is not permitted in termcap.
1768 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
1769 integrating 20000318.
1772 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
1773 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from Eric's version.
1774 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
1775 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
1777 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
1778 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
1779 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
1780 result for OS/2 EMX.
1781 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
1782 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
1783 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
1784 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
1785 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
1786 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
1789 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
1790 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
1791 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
1793 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
1794 displaying string capabilities.
1795 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
1796 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
1797 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
1798 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
1799 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
1800 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
1802 + adapted patch by Eric Raymond to make infocmp -F less verbose
1803 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
1805 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
1806 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
1807 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
1808 may not produce the same result as before.
1809 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
1811 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
1812 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
1814 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
1815 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
1817 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
1818 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1819 + drop support for gnat 3.10
1820 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
1821 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
1824 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
1825 made it check only one entry at a time.
1826 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
1828 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
1829 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
1830 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
1831 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
1832 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
1833 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
1834 address out of bounds.
1835 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
1836 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
1837 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
1838 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
1840 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
1841 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
1842 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
1844 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
1847 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
1848 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
1849 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
1850 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
1852 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
1853 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
1854 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
1855 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
1856 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
1857 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
1859 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
1860 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
1861 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
1862 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
1863 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
1864 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
1865 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
1866 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
1869 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
1870 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander Lukyanov).
1871 > patches by Alexander Lukyanov:
1872 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
1873 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
1874 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
1878 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
1879 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
1880 > patches by Alexander Lukyanov:
1881 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
1882 colors are white on black.
1883 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
1884 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
1885 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
1886 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
1887 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
1890 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
1891 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
1892 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
1893 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
1894 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
1895 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
1896 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
1897 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
1898 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
1899 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
1900 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
1903 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm.
1904 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
1905 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
1906 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
1907 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
1908 to wait indefinitely.
1911 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
1912 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
1913 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
1914 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
1915 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
1916 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
1917 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
1918 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
1919 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
1920 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1921 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
1922 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
1926 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
1927 programs build with c++/g++.
1928 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
1929 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
1930 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
1931 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
1932 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
1933 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
1934 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
1935 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
1938 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
1940 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
1941 terminfo entries -TD
1942 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
1943 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
1944 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
1945 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
1947 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
1948 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
1950 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
1952 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
1953 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
1954 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
1955 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
1956 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0).
1957 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
1958 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
1959 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
1960 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
1964 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
1965 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
1966 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
1967 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
1968 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
1969 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
1970 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
1971 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
1972 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
1973 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
1974 use_extended_names().
1977 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
1978 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
1979 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
1980 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
1981 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
1982 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
1983 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
1984 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
1985 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
1986 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
1987 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
1988 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
1989 + add manpage for infotocap
1992 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
1993 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
1994 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
1995 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
1997 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
1998 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
1999 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
2000 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
2001 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
2002 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
2003 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
2004 initc for xterm-88color.
2005 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
2009 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
2010 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
2012 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
2013 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
2014 SP, since it is part of that struct.
2015 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
2017 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
2018 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
2019 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
2020 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
2021 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
2022 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
2023 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
2024 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
2025 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
2027 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
2028 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
2029 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2030 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
2032 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
2035 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
2036 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
2037 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
2038 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
2039 over the use of default colors.
2040 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
2041 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
2042 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
2043 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
2044 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
2045 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
2046 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
2047 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
2050 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
2051 <robert@progplus.com>)
2052 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
2053 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
2054 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
2057 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
2058 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
2059 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
2061 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
2062 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
2063 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
2064 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
2065 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
2066 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
2067 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
2068 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
2069 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
2070 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
2071 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
2072 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
2074 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
2075 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
2078 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2079 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
2081 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
2082 (request by Bob van der Poel).
2083 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
2084 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
2085 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
2086 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
2087 libraries by default.
2088 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
2090 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
2091 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
2093 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
2094 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
2095 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
2096 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
2097 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
2098 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
2099 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
2101 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
2103 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
2104 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
2105 advice from Bela Lubkin).
2106 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
2107 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2108 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
2109 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
2110 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
2111 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
2114 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
2117 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
2118 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
2119 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
2120 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
2121 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
2122 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
2123 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
2124 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
2125 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
2126 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
2129 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
2130 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
2131 Blain, comments by Alexander Lukyanov).
2132 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
2133 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
2134 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, based on analysis by Philippe Blain
2136 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
2137 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
2138 filename limitation (from Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
2139 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
2140 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
2141 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
2142 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
2143 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
2144 is used), and in color.
2145 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
2146 shared library rules.
2149 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
2150 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
2151 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
2152 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
2153 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
2154 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
2155 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
2156 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
2157 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
2158 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
2159 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
2160 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
2161 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
2162 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
2163 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
2164 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
2165 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2168 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
2169 <j@interface-business.de>).
2170 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
2171 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
2172 that hard-links work on Unix again.
2173 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 as suggested by
2174 Jeremy Buhler, making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
2175 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
2178 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
2179 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
2180 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
2181 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
2182 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
2183 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
2184 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
2185 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
2186 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
2187 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
2188 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
2189 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
2190 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
2193 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
2194 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
2195 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
2196 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
2197 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (from
2198 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup item by Peter Edwards
2199 <peter.edwards@ireland.com>).
2200 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
2201 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
2202 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
2203 function works only for sockets.
2204 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
2205 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
2206 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
2207 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
2208 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
2209 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
2210 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
2211 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
2212 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
2213 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
2216 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
2217 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
2218 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
2219 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
2220 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
2221 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
2222 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
2225 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
2226 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
2227 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
2229 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
2230 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
2231 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
2232 nonfunctional link().
2233 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
2234 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
2237 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
2238 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
2239 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
2242 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
2243 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
2244 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
2245 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
2246 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
2247 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
2248 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2249 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
2250 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
2251 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
2252 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
2253 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
2254 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
2255 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
2256 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
2257 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
2258 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
2259 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
2260 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
2261 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
2264 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
2265 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
2266 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
2267 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
2268 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
2269 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
2270 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
2271 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
2272 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
2273 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
2274 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
2275 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
2276 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
2277 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
2278 short-circuit expression evaluation.
2279 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
2280 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
2282 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
2283 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
2284 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
2285 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
2286 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
2290 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
2291 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
2293 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
2294 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
2295 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
2298 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
2299 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
2300 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
2301 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
2302 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
2303 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
2304 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
2305 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
2307 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
2308 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
2309 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2312 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
2313 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
2314 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
2315 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
2316 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
2317 --with-rcs-ids option.
2320 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
2321 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
2323 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
2324 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
2325 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
2329 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
2330 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
2331 BeOS predefines a bool type.
2332 + correct logic for infocmp -e option (i.e., the configure
2333 --with-fallbacks option), which I'd not updated when implementing
2334 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a -E
2336 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2337 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
2338 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
2339 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
2340 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
2341 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
2342 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
2345 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2346 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
2347 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
2348 + change interface version-number to 1.0
2349 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
2352 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
2353 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
2354 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
2355 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
2356 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
2357 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
2358 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
2359 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
2360 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
2361 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
2363 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
2364 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (from
2365 discussion with Alexander Lukyanov).
2368 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
2369 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
2370 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
2372 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
2373 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
2376 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
2377 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2378 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
2379 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
2380 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
2383 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
2387 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
2388 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
2389 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
2390 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
2391 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
2393 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
2394 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
2395 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
2396 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
2399 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
2400 fields, and showing forms within panels.
2401 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
2402 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
2403 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
2404 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
2405 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
2406 ownership may change).
2409 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
2411 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
2412 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
2413 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2414 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
2415 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
2416 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
2417 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
2419 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
2420 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
2421 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
2422 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
2423 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
2424 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
2427 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
2428 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
2430 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
2431 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
2432 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
2433 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
2436 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
2437 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
2438 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
2439 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
2440 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
2441 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
2445 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
2446 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
2447 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
2448 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
2449 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
2450 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
2451 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
2452 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
2455 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
2456 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
2457 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
2458 Alexander Lukyanov).
2461 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
2462 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
2465 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
2466 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
2467 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
2468 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
2469 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2470 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
2471 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
2472 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
2473 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
2474 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
2475 reset for the next newterm.
2476 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
2477 terminal has true SLKs.
2478 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
2481 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
2482 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
2483 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
2484 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
2485 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
2486 read of the extended capabilities.
2487 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
2488 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
2489 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
2490 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
2491 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
2492 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
2493 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
2494 throughout ncurses library.
2495 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
2496 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
2498 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
2499 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
2500 + regenerate some of the html documentation
2501 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
2504 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
2505 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
2506 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
2507 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
2508 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
2510 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
2512 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
2513 defined for a keycode.
2514 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
2515 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
2516 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
2517 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
2518 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
2520 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander Lukyanov).
2521 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
2522 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
2523 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
2525 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
2526 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
2528 + modify configuration scripts to
2529 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
2530 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
2531 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
2532 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
2533 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
2534 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
2535 + rename ada_include directory to src.
2538 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
2539 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
2540 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
2544 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
2545 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
2546 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
2547 though the problem is more general.
2548 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
2549 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
2550 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
2551 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
2553 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
2554 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
2555 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
2558 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
2559 Alexander Lukyanov).
2560 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
2561 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
2562 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
2563 operation (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
2564 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
2565 be any substring rather than the prefix.
2566 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
2567 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
2568 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich, who says that he has
2569 seen messages claiming this behaviour conforms to the standard.)
2570 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
2571 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
2572 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
2573 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
2574 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
2575 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
2576 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
2577 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
2578 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
2579 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
2580 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
2581 --with-shlib-version option.
2584 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
2585 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
2586 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
2587 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
2588 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
2589 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
2590 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
2591 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
2592 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
2593 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
2594 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
2595 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
2596 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
2597 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
2598 source distribution.
2601 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
2602 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
2603 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
2605 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
2606 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
2607 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
2608 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
2609 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
2612 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
2615 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
2616 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
2617 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
2618 Alexander Lukyanov).
2619 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
2620 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
2621 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
2622 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
2623 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2624 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
2625 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
2626 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
2627 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
2628 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
2630 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
2631 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
2632 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
2633 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
2636 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
2638 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
2639 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
2640 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
2641 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
2642 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
2643 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
2644 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
2645 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
2646 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
2647 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
2648 characters (from a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from Michael
2649 Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
2650 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
2651 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
2652 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
2653 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
2654 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
2658 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
2659 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
2660 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
2661 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
2662 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
2663 running screen built with ncurses.
2664 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
2665 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
2666 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
2669 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
2672 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
2673 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
2674 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (from a
2676 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
2677 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
2679 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
2680 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
2681 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
2682 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
2686 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
2687 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
2688 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
2689 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
2690 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
2691 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
2692 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
2693 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
2694 (reported by H.J.Lu).
2697 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
2698 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
2699 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
2700 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
2701 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
2702 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
2703 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
2704 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
2705 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
2706 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
2707 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2708 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
2710 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
2711 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
2713 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
2715 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
2717 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
2718 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
2722 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
2723 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
2724 address rather than its length.
2725 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
2726 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
2727 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
2728 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
2729 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
2730 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
2731 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
2732 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
2733 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
2734 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
2737 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
2738 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
2740 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
2741 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
2742 for an older version of ncurses.
2743 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
2744 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
2745 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
2746 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
2747 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
2748 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
2749 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
2750 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
2751 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2752 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
2753 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
2754 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
2756 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
2757 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
2760 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
2761 (request by Larry Virden).
2762 > patches/discussion by Alexander Lukyanov:
2763 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
2764 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander Lukyanov's proposed
2765 changes to ncurses library.
2766 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
2767 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
2768 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
2769 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2770 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
2771 + some Ada95 cosmetics
2772 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
2773 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
2774 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
2777 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
2778 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
2779 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
2780 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander Lukyanov's proposed
2781 changes to ncurses library.
2782 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
2783 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
2784 broken configure scripts.
2787 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
2789 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
2790 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
2791 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
2793 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
2794 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
2798 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
2799 with --srcdir option.
2800 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
2801 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
2802 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
2803 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
2804 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
2805 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
2808 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
2809 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
2810 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
2812 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
2813 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
2814 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
2815 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
2816 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
2817 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
2818 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
2819 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
2822 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
2823 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
2826 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
2827 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
2828 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
2829 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
2830 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
2831 some older entries - TD
2832 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
2833 since that is a little more efficient.
2834 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
2835 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
2836 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
2837 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
2838 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
2839 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
2841 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
2843 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
2844 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
2846 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
2847 + use format string for printing strings.
2848 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
2851 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
2852 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
2853 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
2854 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
2855 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
2856 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
2857 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
2858 > patches by Todd C Miller:
2859 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
2860 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
2861 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
2862 dealing with env variables again.
2863 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
2864 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
2865 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
2866 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
2867 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
2868 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
2869 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
2870 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
2871 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
2872 newhash data to SP struct.
2873 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
2874 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
2875 function's parameter which is deleted.
2876 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
2877 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
2878 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
2879 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
2883 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
2884 consistent treatment.
2885 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
2886 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
2887 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
2888 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
2891 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
2892 capability name, as in SVr4.
2893 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
2894 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
2895 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
2898 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
2899 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
2900 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
2901 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
2902 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
2903 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
2904 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
2905 > from esr's terminfo version:
2906 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
2907 + dtterm enacs correction from Alexander V Lukyanov.
2908 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
2911 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
2912 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
2913 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
2914 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
2915 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
2916 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
2917 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
2918 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
2919 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
2920 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
2924 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
2925 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
2926 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
2927 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
2928 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
2931 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
2932 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
2936 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
2937 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
2938 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
2939 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
2940 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
2941 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
2942 as obtained via ioctl.
2945 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
2946 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
2947 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
2948 turning attributes off.
2949 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
2950 initializing multiple screens.
2951 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
2952 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
2953 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
2956 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
2957 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
2958 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
2959 with Solaris curses).
2960 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
2961 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
2962 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
2963 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
2964 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
2965 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
2966 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
2967 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
2970 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
2971 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
2972 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
2973 (request by QingLong).
2974 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
2975 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
2976 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
2977 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
2979 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
2980 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
2981 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
2982 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
2983 otherwise simply exit with an error.
2986 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
2987 "_g" for a debug build).
2988 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
2989 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
2990 compile/link working Ada95 program.
2991 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
2992 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
2993 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
2994 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
2995 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
2996 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
3000 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
3001 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
3002 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
3003 corresponds to vt100.
3004 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
3005 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
3008 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
3009 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
3010 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
3011 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
3012 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
3013 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
3014 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
3015 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
3016 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
3017 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
3020 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
3021 several minor errors/omissions.
3022 + implement tparm %l format.
3023 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
3025 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
3028 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
3029 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
3030 to be written to large screens.
3031 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
3032 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
3033 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
3034 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
3035 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
3037 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
3038 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
3039 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
3040 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
3043 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
3045 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
3047 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
3048 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
3049 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
3050 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
3051 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
3052 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
3053 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
3055 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
3056 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
3058 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
3061 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
3062 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
3063 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
3064 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
3065 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
3066 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
3067 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
3068 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
3069 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
3070 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
3073 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
3074 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
3075 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
3076 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
3077 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
3078 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
3079 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
3080 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
3081 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
3082 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
3083 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
3084 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
3085 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
3088 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
3089 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
3090 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
3091 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
3092 which contains a colon in the description field.
3093 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries
3094 (from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item by Mike Hopkirk
3096 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
3098 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
3099 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
3102 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
3103 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
3105 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
3106 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
3107 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
3108 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
3109 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
3110 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
3111 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
3112 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
3113 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
3114 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
3115 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
3116 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
3117 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
3118 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
3119 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
3120 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
3121 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
3122 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
3123 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
3124 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
3125 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
3126 comparisons out of inner loop.
3129 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
3130 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
3131 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
3132 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
3133 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
3134 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
3135 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
3136 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
3137 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
3139 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
3140 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
3141 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
3144 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
3145 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
3146 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
3147 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
3148 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
3149 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
3150 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
3151 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
3152 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
3153 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
3156 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
3157 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
3158 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
3159 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
3161 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
3162 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
3163 by Juergen Pfeifer).
3166 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
3167 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
3170 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
3171 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
3172 uses them when they are available.
3173 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
3174 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
3175 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
3176 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
3178 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
3181 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
3182 declared (from Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
3183 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J.T.Conklin).
3184 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
3186 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3187 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
3188 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
3189 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
3190 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
3191 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
3192 use --disable-overwrite).
3193 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
3194 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
3195 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
3196 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
3197 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
3198 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
3199 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
3200 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
3201 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
3205 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
3206 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3207 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
3208 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
3209 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
3210 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
3211 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
3212 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
3214 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 from Eric's webpage.
3215 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
3216 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
3217 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
3219 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
3220 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
3221 parameter according to XSI.
3222 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
3223 reflect above enhancements.
3226 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
3227 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
3228 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
3229 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
3231 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
3233 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
3235 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
3236 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
3237 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 from Eric.
3240 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
3241 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
3242 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3243 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
3244 <claesg@algonet.se>).
3245 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
3246 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
3249 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
3250 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
3251 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
3253 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
3254 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
3255 by Florian La Roche).
3256 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
3257 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
3258 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
3259 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3262 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
3263 distributions, though it is retained in development.
3264 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
3266 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
3267 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
3268 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
3269 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
3270 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
3273 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
3275 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
3276 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
3277 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
3278 > patch by J.T.Conklin, to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses
3279 (reduces size by up to 2.6kb):
3280 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
3282 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
3283 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
3284 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
3286 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
3287 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
3288 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
3291 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
3292 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
3294 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
3295 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
3297 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
3299 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
3301 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
3303 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
3304 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
3305 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
3306 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
3307 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
3309 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
3310 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
3312 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
3313 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
3314 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
3315 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
3316 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
3317 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
3318 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
3319 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
3320 turn off attributes inconsistently.
3323 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
3324 test for no_color_video.
3325 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
3327 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
3328 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
3329 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
3331 > from reports by Fred Fish:
3332 + add configure-test for isascii
3333 + add configure-test for -lm library.
3334 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
3335 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
3336 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
3337 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
3338 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
3339 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
3340 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
3342 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
3343 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
3345 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
3346 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
3347 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
3348 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
3349 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
3352 + correct initialization of color-pair (from 970524) in xmas.c, which
3353 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
3355 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
3357 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
3358 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
3359 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
3361 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
3362 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
3364 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
3366 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
3367 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
3368 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
3369 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3370 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
3371 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
3372 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3373 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
3374 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
3375 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
3376 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
3377 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
3378 fields are also always inactive.
3379 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
3380 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
3383 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
3384 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
3385 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
3386 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
3387 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
3388 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
3389 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
3390 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
3391 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
3394 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
3395 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
3396 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
3397 defined (from O'Reilly book).
3398 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
3400 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (from J.J.G.Ripoll, who says
3401 EMX's curses does this).
3402 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
3403 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
3404 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
3405 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
3406 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
3407 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
3408 cross-platform compatibility.
3409 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
3410 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
3411 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3412 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
3414 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
3418 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
3419 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
3420 EMX from J.J.G.Ripoll.
3421 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
3422 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
3423 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
3424 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
3425 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
3426 that simply cannot scroll.
3427 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
3428 embedded \200 characters are matched.
3429 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
3433 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
3434 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
3435 functions from the build.
3436 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
3437 functions as a separate library.
3438 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
3439 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
3440 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
3441 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
3442 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
3443 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
3444 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
3445 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
3446 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
3448 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3449 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
3450 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
3453 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
3454 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
3456 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
3457 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
3458 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
3459 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
3462 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
3463 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
3464 + add configure check for 'tack'.
3465 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
3466 for Debian configuration.
3467 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
3469 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
3470 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
3472 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
3473 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
3474 case of wide characters in chtype.
3475 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
3476 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
3477 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
3480 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
3481 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
3482 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
3483 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
3484 have set root's umask to 077.
3485 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
3486 end of output when they had embedded comments.
3487 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
3488 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
3489 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
3490 correct logic for handling backslashes.
3491 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
3492 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
3493 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
3494 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
3495 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
3496 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
3498 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3499 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
3501 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
3502 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
3504 + resync of the html version of the manpages
3507 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
3508 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
3510 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
3511 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
3512 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
3513 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
3514 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3515 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
3516 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
3517 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
3521 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
3523 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
3524 comments from Daniel Weaver.
3525 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
3526 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
3527 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
3528 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by.
3530 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
3531 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
3532 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by.
3534 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
3535 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
3538 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
3542 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
3543 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
3544 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
3545 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
3546 in call to delay_output().
3547 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
3548 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
3549 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
3550 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
3551 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
3553 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
3554 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
3555 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
3556 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
3557 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
3558 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
3559 so that will work on NeXT.
3560 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
3561 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
3564 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
3566 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
3568 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
3569 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
3570 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
3571 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
3572 when that feature is not configured.
3573 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
3574 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
3575 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
3576 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
3577 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
3578 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
3579 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
3580 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
3583 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
3585 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
3586 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
3588 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
3590 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
3591 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
3594 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
3595 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
3596 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
3597 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
3598 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
3599 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
3600 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
3601 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
3602 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
3604 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
3605 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
3606 tputs() if called from that function.
3607 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
3608 tputs works when SP is not set.
3609 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3610 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
3611 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
3612 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
3613 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
3614 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
3617 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
3618 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
3619 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
3620 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
3621 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
3622 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
3623 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
3624 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
3625 _nc_update_screensize().
3626 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
3628 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
3629 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
3630 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
3631 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
3632 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
3633 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3634 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
3635 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
3636 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
3637 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
3639 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
3643 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
3644 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
3645 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
3647 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
3648 click-interval without modifying it.
3649 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
3650 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
3652 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
3653 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
3654 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
3655 other ncurses headers.
3656 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
3657 > minor interface changes (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>,
3658 to support 'tack' program):
3659 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
3660 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
3661 characters output in delay_output().
3662 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
3663 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
3664 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
3665 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
3666 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
3668 + typo in configure --help.
3669 > patch by J.T.Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
3670 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
3671 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
3672 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
3675 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3676 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
3679 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
3680 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
3681 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
3682 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
3683 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
3685 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
3686 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
3687 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
3688 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
3689 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
3690 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
3691 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
3692 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
3693 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
3694 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
3695 form (sorted, unique mapping).
3696 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
3697 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
3698 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3699 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
3700 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
3701 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
3702 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
3703 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
3704 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
3705 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
3706 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
3707 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
3708 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3709 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
3711 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
3712 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
3713 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
3714 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
3715 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
3716 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
3720 + add 'deinstall' rules.
3721 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
3722 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
3723 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
3724 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
3725 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
3726 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
3728 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
3729 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3730 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
3732 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
3733 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
3734 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
3735 scripts are also provided.
3738 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
3740 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
3741 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
3742 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
3743 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
3744 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
3745 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
3746 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
3747 generating lint library.
3748 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
3750 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
3751 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
3752 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
3753 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
3754 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
3755 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
3756 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
3757 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
3758 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
3759 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
3761 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3762 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
3764 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
3766 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
3767 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
3768 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
3769 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
3770 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
3771 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
3772 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
3773 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
3774 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
3778 + modify rain.c to use color.
3779 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
3780 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
3781 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
3782 of configure cache variables in 970906.
3783 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
3784 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
3785 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
3786 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
3787 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
3788 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
3789 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
3790 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
3791 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
3792 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3793 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
3795 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
3796 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
3797 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
3798 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
3800 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
3801 NCursesWindow class.
3802 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
3803 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
3804 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
3805 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
3807 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
3808 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
3809 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
3810 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
3811 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
3812 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
3814 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
3815 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
3816 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
3817 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
3818 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
3819 already disconnected.
3820 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
3821 navigation requests.
3822 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
3823 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
3824 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
3825 forms field by index.