- These routines return the character, of type <STRONG>chtype</STRONG>, at the current
- position in the named window. If any attributes are set for that
- position, their values are OR'ed into the value returned. Constants
- defined in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG> can be used with the <STRONG>&</STRONG> (logical AND) operator to
- extract the character or attributes alone.
-
-
-</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Attributes">Attributes</a></H3><PRE>
- The following bit-masks may be AND-ed with characters returned by
- <STRONG>winch</STRONG>.
-
- <STRONG>A_CHARTEXT</STRONG> Bit-mask to extract character
- <STRONG>A_ATTRIBUTES</STRONG> Bit-mask to extract attributes
- <STRONG>A_COLOR</STRONG> Bit-mask to extract color-pair field information
+ <STRONG>winch</STRONG> returns the <EM>curses</EM> character, including rendering attributes and
+ color pair identifier, at the cursor position in the window <EM>win</EM>.
+ Subsection "Video Attributes" of <STRONG><A HREF="curs_attr.3x.html">attron(3x)</A></STRONG> explains how to extract
+ these data from a <EM>chtype</EM>. <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">ncurses(3x)</A></STRONG> describes the variants of this
+ function.