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sonable optimization. This implementation is ``new
curses'' (ncurses) and is the approved replacement for
4.4BSD classic curses, which has been discontinued. This
- describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.7 (patch 20100731).
+ describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.7 (patch 20100918).
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library emulates the curses library of System
V Release 4 UNIX, and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide)
ncursesw
the so-called "wide" library, which handles
- multibyte characters (See the section on
+ multibyte characters (see the section on
<STRONG>ALTERNATE</STRONG> <STRONG>CONFIGURATIONS</STRONG>). The "wide" library
includes all of the calls from the "normal"
library. It adds about one third more calls
not the only way to change the list of directories.
The complete list of directories in order follows:
- - the last directory to which <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> wrote, if any,
- is searched first
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the last directory to which <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> wrote, if
+ any, is searched first
- - the directory specified by the TERMINFO symbol
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> the directory specified by the TERMINFO symbol
- - $HOME/.terminfo
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> $HOME/.terminfo
- - directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS symbol
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> directories listed in the TERMINFO_DIRS symbol
- - one or more directories whose names are configured
- and compiled into the ncurses library, e.g.,
- /usr/share/terminfo
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> one or more directories whose names are config-
+ ured and compiled into the ncurses library, e.g.,
+ /usr/share/terminfo
TERMINFO_DIRS
Specifies a list of directories to search for termi-