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--- a/doc/html/man/form.3x.html
+++ b/doc/html/man/form.3x.html
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
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-  * Copyright (c) 1998,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+  * Copyright (c) 1998-2014,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
   *                                                                          *
   * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
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   * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -28,36 +27,34 @@
   * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written       *
   * authorization.                                                           *
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   * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written       *
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-  * @Id: form.3x,v 1.15 2002/01/19 22:48:05 tom Exp @
+  * @Id: form.3x,v 1.26 2015/08/02 18:14:50 tom Exp @
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
 <HTML>
 <HEAD>
 <HTML>
 <HEAD>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
+<meta name="generator" content="Manpage converted by man2html - see http://invisible-island.net/scripts/readme.html#others_scripts">
 <TITLE>form 3x</TITLE>
 <link rev=made href="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 </HEAD>
 <BODY>
 <TITLE>form 3x</TITLE>
 <link rev=made href="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 </HEAD>
 <BODY>
-<H1>form 3x</H1>
-<HR>
+<H1 class="no-header">form 3x</H1>
 <PRE>
 <PRE>
-<!-- Manpage converted by man2html 3.0.1 -->
-<STRONG><A HREF="form.3x.html">form(3x)</A></STRONG>                                                 <STRONG><A HREF="form.3x.html">form(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="form.3x.html">form(3x)</A></STRONG>                                                       <STRONG><A HREF="form.3x.html">form(3x)</A></STRONG>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
        <STRONG>form</STRONG> - curses extension for programming forms
 
 
        <STRONG>form</STRONG> - curses extension for programming forms
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;form.h&gt;</STRONG>
 
 
        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;form.h&gt;</STRONG>
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
        The  <STRONG>form</STRONG> library provides terminal-independent facilities
        for composing form screens  on  character-cell  terminals.
        The  library  includes:  field  routines, which create and
        The  <STRONG>form</STRONG> library provides terminal-independent facilities
        for composing form screens  on  character-cell  terminals.
        The  library  includes:  field  routines, which create and
@@ -65,23 +62,30 @@
        into forms, display forms on the screen, and handle inter-
        action with the user.
 
        into forms, display forms on the screen, and handle inter-
        action with the user.
 
-       The <STRONG>form</STRONG> library uses the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> libraries, and  a  curses
-       initialization  routine  such  as  <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>  must be called
-       before using any of these  functions.   To  use  the  <STRONG>form</STRONG>
-       library, link with the options <STRONG>-lform</STRONG> <STRONG>-lcurses</STRONG>.
+       The <STRONG>form</STRONG> library uses the <STRONG>curses</STRONG> libraries.   To  use  the
+       <STRONG>form</STRONG> library, link with the options <STRONG>-lform</STRONG> <STRONG>-lcurses</STRONG>.
+
+       Your program should set up the locale, e.g.,
+
+            <STRONG>setlocale(LC_ALL,</STRONG> <STRONG>"");</STRONG>
+
+       so that input/output processing will work.
+
+       A  curses  initialization  routine such as <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> must be
+       called before using any of these functions.
 
 
 
 
-   <STRONG>Current</STRONG> <STRONG>Default</STRONG> <STRONG>Values</STRONG> <STRONG>for</STRONG> <STRONG>Field</STRONG> <STRONG>Attributes</STRONG>
-       The  <STRONG>form</STRONG>  library  maintains  a  default  value for field
-       attributes.  You can get or set this  default  by  calling
-       the  appropriate  <STRONG>set_</STRONG>  or  retrieval  routine with a <STRONG>NULL</STRONG>
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Current-Default-Values-for-Field-Attributes">Current Default Values for Field Attributes</a></H3><PRE>
+       The <STRONG>form</STRONG> library  maintains  a  default  value  for  field
+       attributes.   You  can  get or set this default by calling
+       the appropriate <STRONG>set_</STRONG> or  retrieval  routine  with  a  <STRONG>NULL</STRONG>
        field pointer.  Changing this default with a <STRONG>set_</STRONG> function
        field pointer.  Changing this default with a <STRONG>set_</STRONG> function
-       affects  future  field  creations, but does not change the
+       affects future field creations, but does  not  change  the
        rendering of fields already created.
 
 
        rendering of fields already created.
 
 
-   <STRONG>Routine</STRONG> <STRONG>Name</STRONG> <STRONG>Index</STRONG>
-       The following table lists each <STRONG>form</STRONG> routine and  the  name
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Routine-Name-Index">Routine Name Index</a></H3><PRE>
+       The  following  table lists each <STRONG>form</STRONG> routine and the name
        of the manual page on which it is described.
 
        <STRONG>curses</STRONG> Routine Name    Manual Page Name
        of the manual page on which it is described.
 
        <STRONG>curses</STRONG> Routine Name    Manual Page Name
@@ -90,7 +94,7 @@
        data_ahead             <STRONG><A HREF="form_data.3x.html">form_data(3x)</A></STRONG>
        data_behind            <STRONG><A HREF="form_data.3x.html">form_data(3x)</A></STRONG>
        dup_field              <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        data_ahead             <STRONG><A HREF="form_data.3x.html">form_data(3x)</A></STRONG>
        data_behind            <STRONG><A HREF="form_data.3x.html">form_data(3x)</A></STRONG>
        dup_field              <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
-       dynamic_fieldinfo      <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_info.3x.html">form_field_info(3x)</A></STRONG>
+       dynamic_field_info     <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_info.3x.html">form_field_info(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_arg              <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_validation.3x.html">form_field_validation(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_back             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_attributes.3x.html">form_field_attributes(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_buffer           <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_buffer.3x.html">form_field_buffer(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_arg              <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_validation.3x.html">form_field_validation(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_back             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_attributes.3x.html">form_field_attributes(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_buffer           <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_buffer.3x.html">form_field_buffer(3x)</A></STRONG>
@@ -107,12 +111,13 @@
        field_status           <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_buffer.3x.html">form_field_buffer(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_term             <STRONG><A HREF="form_hook.3x.html">form_hook(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_type             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_validation.3x.html">form_field_validation(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_status           <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_buffer.3x.html">form_field_buffer(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_term             <STRONG><A HREF="form_hook.3x.html">form_hook(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_type             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_validation.3x.html">form_field_validation(3x)</A></STRONG>
+
        field_userptr          <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_userptr.3x.html">form_field_userptr(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_driver            <STRONG><A HREF="form_driver.3x.html">form_driver(3x)</A></STRONG>
        field_userptr          <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_userptr.3x.html">form_field_userptr(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_driver            <STRONG><A HREF="form_driver.3x.html">form_driver(3x)</A></STRONG>
+       form_driver_w          <STRONG><A HREF="form_driver.3x.html">form_driver(3x)</A></STRONG>*
        form_fields            <STRONG><A HREF="form_field.3x.html">form_field(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_init              <STRONG><A HREF="form_hook.3x.html">form_hook(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_opts              <STRONG><A HREF="form_opts.3x.html">form_opts(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_fields            <STRONG><A HREF="form_field.3x.html">form_field(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_init              <STRONG><A HREF="form_hook.3x.html">form_hook(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_opts              <STRONG><A HREF="form_opts.3x.html">form_opts(3x)</A></STRONG>
-
        form_opts_off          <STRONG><A HREF="form_opts.3x.html">form_opts(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_opts_on           <STRONG><A HREF="form_opts.3x.html">form_opts(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_page              <STRONG><A HREF="form_page.3x.html">form_page(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_opts_off          <STRONG><A HREF="form_opts.3x.html">form_opts(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_opts_on           <STRONG><A HREF="form_opts.3x.html">form_opts(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_page              <STRONG><A HREF="form_page.3x.html">form_page(3x)</A></STRONG>
@@ -123,11 +128,13 @@
        form_userptr           <STRONG><A HREF="form_userptr.3x.html">form_userptr(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_win               <STRONG><A HREF="form_win.3x.html">form_win(3x)</A></STRONG>
        free_field             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_userptr           <STRONG><A HREF="form_userptr.3x.html">form_userptr(3x)</A></STRONG>
        form_win               <STRONG><A HREF="form_win.3x.html">form_win(3x)</A></STRONG>
        free_field             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
+       free_fieldtype         <STRONG><A HREF="form_fieldtype.3x.html">form_fieldtype(3x)</A></STRONG>
        free_form              <STRONG><A HREF="form_new.3x.html">form_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        link_field             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        link_fieldtype         <STRONG><A HREF="form_fieldtype.3x.html">form_fieldtype(3x)</A></STRONG>
        move_field             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field.3x.html">form_field(3x)</A></STRONG>
        new_field              <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        free_form              <STRONG><A HREF="form_new.3x.html">form_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        link_field             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        link_fieldtype         <STRONG><A HREF="form_fieldtype.3x.html">form_fieldtype(3x)</A></STRONG>
        move_field             <STRONG><A HREF="form_field.3x.html">form_field(3x)</A></STRONG>
        new_field              <STRONG><A HREF="form_field_new.3x.html">form_field_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
+       new_fieldtype          <STRONG><A HREF="form_fieldtype.3x.html">form_fieldtype(3x)</A></STRONG>
        new_form               <STRONG><A HREF="form_new.3x.html">form_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        new_page               <STRONG><A HREF="form_new_page.3x.html">form_new_page(3x)</A></STRONG>
        pos_form_cursor        <STRONG><A HREF="form_cursor.3x.html">form_cursor(3x)</A></STRONG>
        new_form               <STRONG><A HREF="form_new.3x.html">form_new(3x)</A></STRONG>
        new_page               <STRONG><A HREF="form_new_page.3x.html">form_new_page(3x)</A></STRONG>
        pos_form_cursor        <STRONG><A HREF="form_cursor.3x.html">form_cursor(3x)</A></STRONG>
@@ -160,39 +167,24 @@
        unpost_form            <STRONG><A HREF="form_post.3x.html">form_post(3x)</A></STRONG>
 
 
        unpost_form            <STRONG><A HREF="form_post.3x.html">form_post(3x)</A></STRONG>
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
-       Routines  that return pointers return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.  Rou-
-       tines that return an integer return one of  the  following
-       error codes:
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
+       Routines that return pointers return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG>  on  error,  and
+       set  errno  to  the  corresponding  error-code returned by
+       functions returning an integer.  Routines that  return  an
+       integer return one of the following error codes:
 
        <STRONG>E_OK</STRONG> The routine succeeded.
 
 
        <STRONG>E_OK</STRONG> The routine succeeded.
 
-       <STRONG>E_CONNECTED</STRONG>
-            The field is already connected to a form.
-
-       <STRONG>E_SYSTEM_ERROR</STRONG>
-            System error occurred (see <STRONG>errno</STRONG>).
-
        <STRONG>E_BAD_ARGUMENT</STRONG>
             Routine  detected  an incorrect or out-of-range argu-
             ment.
 
        <STRONG>E_BAD_ARGUMENT</STRONG>
             Routine  detected  an incorrect or out-of-range argu-
             ment.
 
-       <STRONG>E_POSTED</STRONG>
-            The form is already posted.
-
        <STRONG>E_BAD_STATE</STRONG>
             Routine was called from an initialization or termina-
             tion function.
 
        <STRONG>E_BAD_STATE</STRONG>
             Routine was called from an initialization or termina-
             tion function.
 
-       <STRONG>E_NO_ROOM</STRONG>
-            Form is too large for its window.
-
-       <STRONG>E_NOT_POSTED</STRONG>
-            The form has not been posted.
-
-       <STRONG>E_UNKNOWN_COMMAND</STRONG>
-            The form driver code saw an unknown request code.
+       <STRONG>E_CONNECTED</STRONG>
+            The field is already connected to a form.
 
        <STRONG>E_INVALID_FIELD</STRONG>
             Contents of a field are not valid.
 
        <STRONG>E_INVALID_FIELD</STRONG>
             Contents of a field are not valid.
@@ -200,46 +192,71 @@
        <STRONG>E_NOT_CONNECTED</STRONG>
             No fields are connected to the form.
 
        <STRONG>E_NOT_CONNECTED</STRONG>
             No fields are connected to the form.
 
+       <STRONG>E_NOT_POSTED</STRONG>
+            The form has not been posted.
+
+       <STRONG>E_NO_ROOM</STRONG>
+            Form is too large for its window.
+
+       <STRONG>E_POSTED</STRONG>
+            The form is already posted.
+
        <STRONG>E_REQUEST_DENIED</STRONG>
             The form driver could not process the request.
 
        <STRONG>E_REQUEST_DENIED</STRONG>
             The form driver could not process the request.
 
+       <STRONG>E_SYSTEM_ERROR</STRONG>
+            System error occurred (see <STRONG>errno</STRONG>).
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
-       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> and related pages whose names begin "form_" for
-       detailed descriptions of the entry points.
+       <STRONG>E_UNKNOWN_COMMAND</STRONG>
+            The form driver code saw an unknown request code.
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
        The header file <STRONG>&lt;form.h&gt;</STRONG> automatically includes the header
        files <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG> and <STRONG>&lt;eti.h&gt;</STRONG>.
 
        The header file <STRONG>&lt;form.h&gt;</STRONG> automatically includes the header
        files <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG> and <STRONG>&lt;eti.h&gt;</STRONG>.
 
-       In  your  library  list,  libform.a should be before libn-
+       In your library list, libform.a  should  be  before  libn-
        curses.a; that is, you want to say `-lform -lncurses', not
        curses.a; that is, you want to say `-lform -lncurses', not
-       the  other  way  around (which would give you a link error
-       using GNU <STRONG><A HREF="ld.1.html">ld(1)</A></STRONG> and many other linkers).
+       the other way around (which would give you  a  link  error
+       using most linkers).
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
-       These routines emulate the System V forms  library.   They
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+       These  routines  emulate the System V forms library.  They
        were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions.
 
 
        were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions.
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>AUTHORS</H2><PRE>
-       Juergen  Pfeifer.  Manual pages and adaptation for ncurses
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></H2><PRE>
+       Juergen Pfeifer.  Manual pages and adaptation for  ncurses
        by Eric S. Raymond.
 
 
        by Eric S. Raymond.
 
 
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> and related pages whose names begin "form_" for
+       detailed descriptions of the entry points.
+
+       This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20160514).
+
+
 
 
-                                                         <STRONG><A HREF="form.3x.html">form(3x)</A></STRONG>
+                                                               <STRONG><A HREF="form.3x.html">form(3x)</A></STRONG>
 </PRE>
 </PRE>
-<HR>
-<ADDRESS>
-Man(1) output converted with
-<a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html">man2html</a>
-</ADDRESS>
+<div class="nav">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#h3-Current-Default-Values-for-Field-Attributes">Current Default Values for Field Attributes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-Routine-Name-Index">Routine Name Index</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
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ncurses, with patches starting at ncurses-5.6; new users should use https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/