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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1844 2012/01/15 00:44:31 tom Exp $
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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20120204
+ + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
+ better diagnostics.
+
+20120128
+ + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
+ + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
+ + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
+ + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
+ + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
+ + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
+ give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
+ + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
+ consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
+ (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
+
+20120121
+ + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
+ of OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
+ port.
+ + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
+ path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
+ directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
+ + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
+
20120114
+ several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
Linux Mint forum):