ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120825

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1923 2012/06/30 23:05:08 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1943 2012/08/25 20:02:00 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,64 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20120825
+       + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
+         rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
+         by Brian Bloniarz).
+
+20120811
+       + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
+         (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
+       + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
+         INSTALL file.
+       + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
+       + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
+
+20120804
+       + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
+       + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
+       + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
+         by CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
+         Sven Joachim, cf:  20120317).
+       + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
+         --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
+         cf: 20110716).
+
+20120728
+       + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
+         is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
+       + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
+       + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
+       + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
+       + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
+       + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
+         in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc.  (patch by Nick
+         Black).
+
+20120721
+       + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
+       + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
+       + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
+         use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
+       + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
+         use_env() versus use_tioctl().
+
+20120714
+       + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
+         Novell #769788):
+
+20120707
+       + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
+         Juergen Pfeifer).
+       + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
+         by Novell #769788).
+       + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
+         if screensize is unchanged.  Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
+         KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
+         resizeterm().  These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
+         received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
+         dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
+
 20120630
        + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
          Pfeifer).