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- <h1>Announcing ncurses @VERSION@</h1>The ncurses (new curses)
- library is a free software emulation of curses in System V
- Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and
- color and multiple highlights and forms characters and
- function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses
- enhancements over BSD curses.
+ <h1>Announcing ncurses @VERSION@</h1>
+
+ <p>The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation
+ of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo
+ format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms
+ characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other
+ SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD curses.</p>
<p>In mid-June 1995, the maintainer of 4.4BSD curses declared
that he considered 4.4BSD curses obsolete, and encouraged the
It is also available at <a href=
"ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/">ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/</a> .</p>
- <h1>Release Notes</h1>This release is designed to be upward
- compatible from ncurses 5.0 through 5.8; very few applications
- will require recompilation, depending on the platform. These are
- the highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.8 release.
+ <h1>Release Notes</h1>
+
+ <p>This release is designed to be upward compatible from ncurses
+ 5.0 through 5.8; very few applications will require
+ recompilation, depending on the platform. These are the
+ highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.8 release.</p>
<p>This is a bug-fix release, correcting a small number of urgent
problems in the ncurses library from the 5.8 release.</p>
page</a> for snapshots and other information.</li>
</ul>
- <h1>Features of Ncurses</h1>The ncurses package is fully
- compatible with SVr4 (System V Release 4) curses:
+ <h1>Features of Ncurses</h1>
+
+ <p>The ncurses package is fully compatible with SVr4 (System V
+ Release 4) curses:</p>
<ul>
<li>All 257 of the SVr4 calls have been implemented (and are
entries for use with less capable
<strong>curses</strong>/<strong>terminfo</strong> versions such
as the HP/UX and AIX ports.</li>
- </ul>The ncurses package also has many useful extensions over
- SVr4:
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>The ncurses package also has many useful extensions over
+ SVr4:</p>
<ul>
<li>The API is 8-bit clean and base-level conformant with the
interface.</li>
</ul>
- <h1>State of the Package</h1>Numerous bugs present in earlier
- versions have been fixed; the library is far more reliable than
- it used to be. Bounds checking in many `dangerous' entry points
- has been improved. The code is now type-safe according to gcc
- -Wall. The library has been checked for malloc leaks and arena
- corruption by the Purify memory-allocation tester.
+ <h1>State of the Package</h1>
+
+ <p>Numerous bugs present in earlier versions have been fixed; the
+ library is far more reliable than it used to be. Bounds checking
+ in many `dangerous' entry points has been improved. The code is
+ now type-safe according to gcc -Wall. The library has been
+ checked for malloc leaks and arena corruption by the Purify
+ memory-allocation tester.</p>
<p>The ncurses code has been tested with a wide variety of
applications including (versions starting with those noted):</p>
<dd>newsreader, supporting color, MIME <a href=
"http://www.tin.org/">http://www.tin.org/</a></dd>
- </dl>as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support
- alone:
+ </dl>
+
+ <p>as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support
+ alone:</p>
<dl>
<dt>minicom</dt>
<p>The ncurses distribution includes a selection of test programs
(including a few games).</p>
- <h2>Who's Who and What's What</h2>Zeyd Ben-Halim started it from
- a previous package pcurses, written by Pavel Curtis. Eric S.
- Raymond continued development. Jürgen Pfeifer wrote most of
- the form and menu libraries. Ongoing work is being done by
- <a href="mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net">Thomas Dickey</a>.
- Thomas Dickey acts as the maintainer for the Free Software
- Foundation, which holds the copyright on ncurses. Contact the
- current maintainers at <a href=
- "mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">bug-ncurses@gnu.org</a>.
+ <h2>Who's Who and What's What</h2>
+
+ <p>Zeyd Ben-Halim started it from a previous package pcurses,
+ written by Pavel Curtis. Eric S. Raymond continued development.
+ Jürgen Pfeifer wrote most of the form and menu libraries.
+ Ongoing work is being done by <a href=
+ "mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net">Thomas Dickey</a>. Thomas
+ Dickey acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation,
+ which holds the copyright on ncurses. Contact the current
+ maintainers at <a href=
+ "mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">bug-ncurses@gnu.org</a>.</p>
<p>To join the ncurses mailing list, please write email to
<code>bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org</code> containing the line:</p>
support.</li>
<li>Ports to more systems, including DOS and Windows.</li>
- </ul>We need people to help with these projects. If you are
- interested in working on them, please join the ncurses list.
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>We need people to help with these projects. If you are
+ interested in working on them, please join the ncurses list.</p>
+
+ <h2>Other Related Resources</h2>
- <h2>Other Related Resources</h2>The distribution provides a newer
- version of the terminfo-format terminal description file once
-
maintained by <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/">Eric
+ <p>The distribution provides a newer version of the
+ terminfo-format terminal description file once maintained by
+ <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/">Eric
Raymond</a> . Unlike the older version, the termcap and
terminfo data are provided in the same file, and provides several
- user-definable extensions beyond the X/Open specification.
+ user-definable extensions beyond the X/Open specification.</p>
<p>You can find lots of information on terminal-related topics
not covered in the terminfo file at <a href=
projects / ncurses.git / blobdiff