ncurses 6.0 - patch 20161119

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2673 2016/10/02 01:30:44 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,53 @@ 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.
 
+20161119
+       + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
+         proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
+       + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
+         by various discussions including
+         http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
+
+20161112
+       + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
+         + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
+         + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
+         + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
+
+20161105
+       + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
+       + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
+
+20161029
+       + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
+
+20161022
+       + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
+         screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
+         setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
+       + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
+         not optional in tput.
+       + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
+       + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
+         for transformed names.
+       + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
+         tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
+
+20161015
+       + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
+         affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations.  While
+         merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
+         "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
+         doupdate.
+       + regenerate llib-* files.
+       + regenerate HTML manpages.
+       + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
+
+20161008
+       + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
+       + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
+       + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
+
 20161001
        + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap.  This is
          in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
@@ -11089,7 +11136,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
        + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
          Solaris curses.
-       + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
+       + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
          in 970101 showing first/last changes.
        + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
          fields (patch by Per Foreby).