ncurses 5.9 - patch 20150321

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2357 2015/03/07 23:38:25 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2360 2015/03/21 23:44:50 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ 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.
 
+20150321
+       + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
+         getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
+         wide/normal ncurses configurations.  These are text files, except
+         for a magic code at the beginning:
+         0       string          \210\210        Screen-dump (ncurses)
+
 20150307
        + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
          with John S Urban).