ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130126

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2010 2013/01/12 18:12:21 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2018 2013/01/27 01:52:49 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +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.
 
+20130126
+       + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
+         needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
+       + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
+         help reduce flicker.
+       + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
+         old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
+       + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
+         by Dennis Grevenstein).
+       + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
+         Dennis Grevenstein).
+       + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
+         rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
+         (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
+
+20130119
+       + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
+         + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
+         + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
+         + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
+         + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
+         + improve error-checking in copywin
+       + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
+       + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
+         demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
+       + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
+         matching capability names.
+       + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
+         applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
+         termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
+
 20130112
        + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
        + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they