ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070728

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1141 2007/07/07 19:55:16 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1148 2007/07/28 22:19:17 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,43 @@ 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.
 
+20070728
+       + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
+         _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
+       + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
+       + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
+         unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
+         use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
+       + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
+         internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
+       + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
+
+20070721
+       + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
+       + add test/test_get_wstr.c
+       + add test/test_getstr.c
+       + add test/test_inwstr.c
+       + add test/test_instr.c
+
+20070716
+       + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
+         is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
+         (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
+         cf: 20070310).
+
+20070714
+       + add test/savescreen.c test-program
+       + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
+         ".log" to the name and try again.
+       + add konsole-256color entry -TD
+       + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
+       + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
+       + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
+         --disable-echo option is used.
+       + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
+         writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
 20070707
        + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
        + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,