ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120901

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1940 2012/08/04 18:14:29 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1949 2012/09/01 23:35:55 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,11 +45,37 @@ 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.
 
+20120901
+       + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
+       + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
+         might not be allocated.
+       + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
+
+20120826
+       + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
+         initial screen-sizes.
+       + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
+         after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
+         Roumen Petrov).
+
+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
+         for 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,