- Announcing ncurses 5.8
+ Announcing ncurses 5.9
The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of
curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format,
Release Notes
This release is designed to be upward compatible from ncurses 5.0
- through 5.7; very few applications will require recompilation,
+ through 5.8; very few applications will require recompilation,
depending on the platform. These are the highlights from the
- change-log since ncurses 5.7 release.
-
-Interface changes
-
- * turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h.
- * change _nc_has_mouse to has_mouse, reflect its use in C++ and
- Ada95.
- * add is_pad and is_subwin functions for opaque access to the WINDOW
- structure.
- * add tiparm, based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
-
-New features and improvements
-
- Library Improvements
-
- * add a terminal driver for Windows console, which supports a MinGW
- port to Windows.
- * add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for
- several curses functions which use the global SP.
- * improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
- extended terminfo capability U8.
- * improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from
- tic.
- * add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for
- thick- and double-lines.
- * modify init_pair to allow caller to create extra color pairs
- beyond the color_pairs limit, which use default colors.
-
- Improvements to Programs
-
- * add tabs program.
- * modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical
- form (sorted, unique mapping).
- * add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and
- for inconsistent printer-controls.
- * add special case to _nc_infotocap (used by tic and infocmp) to
- recognize the setaf/setab strings from xterm+256color and
- xterm+88color, and provide a reduced version which works with
- termcap.
-
- Terminal Database
-
- * added entries:
- + bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18
- + cons25-debian entry
- + eterm-color entry
- + linux-16color
- + mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0
- + several screen-bce.xxx entries
- + screen.Eterm terminfo entry
- + vwmterm entry
- + xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature
- * updated/improved entries:
- + use extended capabilities:
- o add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators
- which do not support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8
- encoding
- o add XT capability to entries for terminals that support
- both xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for screen
- which special-cases TERM beginning with xterm or rxvt
- + improvements based on new checks in tic:
- +
- o fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a
- parameterized form is available
- o fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the
- controls is ANSI
- o add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic
- o modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0
- consistent
- o change several terminfo entries to make consistent use
- of ANSI clear-all-tabs
- + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48,
- moving function key definitions from emx-base for
- consistency.
- + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of
- ansi.sys-old.
- + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old,
- st52-old, use newer entries from FreeMiNT.
- + repurpose gnome terminfo entries as vte, retaining gnome
- variants for compatibility, but generally deprecating those
- since the VTE library is what actually defines the behavior
- of "gnome", etc., since 2003.
- + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse
- rather than bold.
- + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range, make
- similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc.
- + update minix terminfo entry.
- + updated nsterm* entries.
- + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty.
- + suppress ncv in screen and konsole-base entries, allowing
- underline.
- + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to
- match Sun's entry for this.
- + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry.
- + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys.
- + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset
- ends the alternate character set.
- + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color.
-
-Major bug fixes
-
- * ncurses library
- + wide character support
- o modify length returned by getcchar to count the trailing
- null which is documented in X/Open.
- o fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding
- 8-bit value using insch.
- o improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a
- control character is found. The library uses unctrl to
- obtain a printable version of the control character, but
- was not passing color or video attributes.
- o modify waddch_literal, updating line-pointer after a
- multicolumn character is found to not fit on the current
- row, and wrapping is done. Since the line-pointer was
- not updated, the wrapped multicolumn character was
- written to the beginning of the current row.
- o fixes in wins_nwstr and related functions to ensure that
- special characters, i.e., control characters are handled
- properly with the wide-character configuration.
- o correct internal _nc_insert_ch to use _nc_insert_wch
- when inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch
- function that it used did not update the cursor
- position.
- + mouse
- o add check if Gpm_Open returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm".
- This is normally suppressed but can be overridden using
- $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS. Ensure that Gpm_Close is called in
- this case.
- o add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM
- returns a zero, indicating that the connection is
- closed.
- o modify getmouse to act as its documentation implied,
- returning on each call the preceding event until none
- are left. When no more events remain, it will return
- ERR.
- + miscellaneous
- o improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes
- for the extended-colors configuration.
- o add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for
- db4.6.
- o modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined
- by X/Open as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not
- a single character.
- o modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is
- used, but enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7.
- o correct limit-checks in derwin.
- o remove old check in mvderwin which prevented moving a
- derived window whose origin happened to coincide with
- its parent's origin.
- o correct limit-checks in newwin, to ensure that windows
- have nonzero size.
- o modify set_curterm to make broken-linker configuration
- work with changes from 20090228.
- o modify wgetch to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets
- an error in non-blocking mode.
- o correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for
- begy/begx values.
- o fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks in
- lib_slk.c, from 20070704 changes.
- o correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap, used to
- transform terminfo to termcap strings.
- o modify _nc_wgetch to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g.,
- after a SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid
- confusing application.
- * other libraries
- + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
- field_buffer, which stopped at the end of the first row due
- to filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
- + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
- set_field_buffer, broken in 20081018 changes.
- + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
- wide-character configured by set_field_buffer
-
-Portability
-
- * configure script:
- + new options:
-
- --disable-libtool-version
- use the "-version-number" feature which was added
- in libtool 1.5. The default value for the option
- uses the newer feature, which makes libraries
- generated using libtool compatible with the
- standard builds of ncurses.
-
- --disable-rpath-hack
- disable a feature which adds rpath options for
- libraries in unusual places.
-
- --enable-interop
- integrate changes for generic/interop support to
- form-library.
-
- --enable-pc-files
- generate ".pc" files for each of the libraries, and
- install them in pkg-config's library directory.
-
- --enable-pthreads-eintr
- control whether to allow EINTR to interrupt a read
- operation in wgetch. This applies only to the
- pthread configuration
-
- --enable-sp-funcs
- compile-in support for extended functions which
- accept a SCREEN pointer, reducing the need for
- juggling the global SP value with set_term and
- delscreen.
-
- --enable-term-driver
- compile with terminal-driver. That is used in the
- MinGW port, and (being somewhat more complicated)
- is an experimental alternative to the conventional
- termlib internals. Currently, it requires the
- sp-funcs feature to be enabled.
-
- --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix
- allows setting the prefix for functions used to
- wrap global variables to something other than
- "_nc_".
-
- --with-pkg-config=[DIR]
- check for pkg-config, optionally specifying its
- path.
-
- --without-manpages
- tells the configure script to suppress the install
- of ncurses' manpages.
-
- --without-tests
- suppress building test programs.
-
- + improved options:
- o correct logic for --with-database, which was coded as an
- enable-type switch.
- o omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
- --disable-ext-funcs is used.
- * packaging:
- + *-config scripts:
- o modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the
- adalib directory.
- o correct install for the Ada95 tree, which omitted
- libAdaCurses.a used in adacurses-config.
- o change install for adacurses-config to provide
- additional flavors such as adacursesw-config, for
- ncursesw.
- o modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files
- to add dependency for tinfo library.
- o use ncurses*-config scripts if available for
- test/configure.
- o correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it
- is renamed to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw
- libraries.
- o generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from
- help2man.
- o modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config
- manpages will install when building with --srcdir.
- o build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for
- wide-character configuration as well as for rpath
- feature in *-config scripts.
- o use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add
- --includedir option.
- o improve install-rules for pc-files.
- o create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
- o fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in
- and gen-pkgconfig.in files.
- o modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on
- rpath when deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs
- output; that should be shown for the ncurses and tinfo
- libraries without taking rpath into account.
- o modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the
- first item in a possibly colon-separated list.
- + other packaging issues
- o add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories
- to help with making those separately distributable.
- o add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created
- by Ada95/make-tar.sh.
- o remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile
- chunks, since the Ada95 binding is now installed using
- rules in Ada95/src.
- * cross-compiling:
- + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp
- programs used for installing database and for generating
- fallback data, e.g., for cross-compiling.
- + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t
- symbol from compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving
- cross-compilation of ncursesw.
- + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to
- reduce the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling
- when the build- and target-machines differ.
- + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro,
- by adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC.
- * library dependencies:
- + revise wadd_wch and wecho_wchar to eliminate dependency on
- unctrl.
- + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library
- suffix when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread
- configuration to more closely match the non-thread naming.
- * building the Ada95 tree:
- + changes to use gnatmake project files in the Ada95 tree.
- + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for
- Ada95/src.
- + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using
- project-file; work around by adding script to generate
- alternate makefile.
- + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make
- rule.
- + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional
- checks will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations
- of gnat.
- + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
- + change install-path for adainclude directory to
- /usr/share/ada (was /usr/lib/ada).
- * other configure/build issues:
- + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this
- would change the size of cchar_t, and would be
- ABI-incompatible.
- + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked
- flavors such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix.
- + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
- + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided
- by an external package [3]cindent.
- + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS,
- provide a configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed
- before "ar" options.
- + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the
- --enable-leaks option is not the same as --disable-leaks.
- + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and
- CF_LIBRARY_PATH by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS
- values to the search-lists.
- + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS
- to work with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning
- messages for cases where older versions would produce an
- error.
- + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased
- libtool version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars,
- as well as digits, after the final '.').
- + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f"
- option if it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of
- the target
- + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
- CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris.
- + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used,
- for *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared
- library's dependencies.
- + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries
- with gcc on AIX 5 or 6.
- + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for
- gcc on Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static
- libc, and does not switch back to dynamic mode before
- finishing the libraries.
- + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for
- gcc on Darwin.
- + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case
- this is a new install of hashed database.
- + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks,
- to a warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use
- additonal scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic
- from the build tree.
- * test programs:
- + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap.
- + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in
- color.
- + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
- + improve test/ncurses.c 'a test to put mouse droppings in the
- proper window.
- + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set with colored
- lines.
- + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder with colored lines.
- + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl more
- consistently to display meta-characters.
- + correct use of key_name in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which
- only displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612.
- + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw
- without wrapping.
- + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
- differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar
- return values.
- + add some test programs (and make these use the same special
- keys by sharing linedata.h functions): test/test_addstr.c
- test/test_addwstr.c test/test_addchstr.c
- test/test_add_wchstr.c
- + add test/xterm-256color.dat
- + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD
- curses.
- + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
+ change-log since ncurses 5.8 release.
+
+ This is a bug-fix release, correcting a small number of urgent
+ problems in the ncurses library from the 5.8 release.
+
+ It also improves the Ada95 binding:
+ * fixes a longstanding portability problem with its use of the
+ [3]set_field_type function. Because that function uses
+ variable-length argument lists, its interface with gnat does not
+ work with certain platforms.
+ * improves configurability and portability, particularly when built
+ separately from the main ncurses tree. The 5.8 release introduced
+ scripts which can be used to construct separate tarballs for the
+ Ada95 and ncurses examples.
+ Those were a proof of concept. For the 5.9 release, those scripts
+ are augmented with rpm- and dpkg-scripts used in test builds
+ against a variety of gnat- and system ncurses versions as old as
+ gnat 3.15 and ncurses 5.4 (see snapshots and systems tested
+ [4]here.
+ * additional improvements were made for portability of the ncurses
+ examples, adding rpm- and dpkg-scripts for test-builds. See
+ [5]this page for snapshots and other information.
Features of Ncurses
cdk
Curses Development Kit
- [4]http://invisible-island.net/cdk/
- [5]http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/
+ [6]http://invisible-island.net/cdk/
+ [7]http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/
ded
directory-editor
- [6]http://invisible-island.net/ded/
+ [8]http://invisible-island.net/ded/
dialog
the underlying application used in Slackware's setup, and the
basis for similar applications on GNU/Linux.
- [7]http://invisible-island.net/dialog/
+ [9]http://invisible-island.net/dialog/
lynx
the character-screen WWW browser
- [8]http://lynx.isc.org/release/
+ [10]http://lynx.isc.org/release/
Midnight Commander
file manager
- [9]http://www.midnight-commander.org/
+ [11]http://www.midnight-commander.org/
mutt
mail utility
- [10]http://www.mutt.org/
+ [12]http://www.mutt.org/
ncftp
file-transfer utility
- [11]http://www.ncftp.com/
+ [13]http://www.ncftp.com/
nvi
New vi versions 1.50 are able to use ncurses versions 1.9.7 and
later.
- [12]https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/nvi
+ [14]https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/nvi
pinfo
Lynx-like info browser.
- [13]https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pinfo/
+ [15]https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pinfo/
tin
- newsreader, supporting color, MIME [14]http://www.tin.org/
+ newsreader, supporting color, MIME [16]http://www.tin.org/
as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support alone:
minicom
terminal emulator
- [15]http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/
+ [17]http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/
vile
vi-like-emacs
- [16]http://invisible-island.net/vile/
+ [18]http://invisible-island.net/vile/
The ncurses distribution includes a selection of test programs
(including a few games).
Zeyd Ben-Halim started it from a previous package pcurses, written by
Pavel Curtis. Eric S. Raymond continued development. Juergen Pfeifer
wrote most of the form and menu libraries. Ongoing work is being done
- by [17]Thomas Dickey. Thomas Dickey acts as the maintainer for the
+ by [19]Thomas Dickey. Thomas Dickey acts as the maintainer for the
Free Software Foundation, which holds the copyright on ncurses.
- Contact the current maintainers at [18]bug-ncurses@gnu.org.
+ Contact the current maintainers at [20]bug-ncurses@gnu.org.
To join the ncurses mailing list, please write email to
bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org containing the line:
and testing of this package.
Beta versions of ncurses and patches to the current release are made
- available at [19]ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ .
+ available at [21]ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ .
Future Plans
Other Related Resources
The distribution provides a newer version of the terminfo-format
- terminal description file once maintained by [20]Eric Raymond . Unlike
+ terminal description file once maintained by [22]Eric Raymond . 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.
You can find lots of information on terminal-related topics not
- covered in the terminfo file at [21]Richard Shuford's archive .
+ covered in the terminfo file at [23]Richard Shuford's archive .
References
1. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/
2. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
- 3. http://invisible-island.net/cindent/cindent.html
- 4. http://invisible-island.net/cdk/
- 5. http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/
- 6. http://invisible-island.net/ded/
- 7. http://invisible-island.net/dialog/
- 8. http://lynx.isc.org/release/
- 9. http://www.midnight-commander.org/
- 10. http://www.mutt.org/
- 11. http://www.ncftp.com/
- 12. https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/nvi
- 13. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pinfo/
- 14. http://www.tin.org/
- 15. http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/
- 16. http://invisible-island.net/vile/
- 17. mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net
- 18. mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org
- 19. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
- 20. http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/
- 21. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal
+ 3. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/form_fieldtype.3x
+ 4. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-Ada95.html
+ 5. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html
+ 6. http://invisible-island.net/cdk/
+ 7. http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/
+ 8. http://invisible-island.net/ded/
+ 9. http://invisible-island.net/dialog/
+ 10. http://lynx.isc.org/release/
+ 11. http://www.midnight-commander.org/
+ 12. http://www.mutt.org/
+ 13. http://www.ncftp.com/
+ 14. https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/nvi
+ 15. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pinfo/
+ 16. http://www.tin.org/
+ 17. http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/
+ 18. http://invisible-island.net/vile/
+ 19. mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net
+ 20. mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org
+ 21. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
+ 22. http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/
+ 23. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal
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<h1>Release Notes</h1>This release is designed to be upward
- compatible from ncurses 5.0 through 5.7; very few applications
+ 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 5.7 release.
-
- <h2>Interface changes</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li>turn on <code>_XOPEN_CURSES</code> definition in
- <code>curses.h</code>.</li>
-
- <li>change <code>_nc_has_mouse</code> to
- <code>has_mouse</code>, reflect its use in C++ and Ada95.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>is_pad</code> and <code>is_subwin</code>
- functions for opaque access to the WINDOW structure.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>tiparm</code>, based on review of X/Open Curses
- Issue 7.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>New features and improvements</h2>
-
- <h3>Library Improvements</h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>add a terminal driver for Windows console, which supports a
- MinGW port to Windows.</li>
-
- <li>add extended functions which specify the
- <code>SCREEN</code> pointer for several curses functions which
- use the global <code>SP</code>.</li>
-
- <li>improve the <code>NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS</code> feature by
- adding a check for an extended terminfo capability
- <code>U8</code>.</li>
-
- <li>improve performance of <code>tigetstr</code>, etc., by
- using hashing code from tic.</li>
-
- <li>add WACS_<em>xxx</em> definitions to wide-character
- configuration for thick- and double-lines.</li>
-
- <li>modify init_pair to allow caller to create extra color
- pairs beyond the color_pairs limit, which use default
- colors.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Improvements to Programs</h3>
-
+ the highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.8 release.
+ <p>
+ This is a bug-fix release, correcting a small number of urgent problems
+ in the ncurses library from the 5.8 release.
+ <p>
+ It also improves the Ada95 binding:
<ul>
- <li>add <code>tabs</code> program.</li>
-
- <li>modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into
- canonical form (sorted, unique mapping).</li>
-
- <li>add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement
- controls, and for inconsistent printer-controls.</li>
-
- <li>add special case to <code>_nc_infotocap</code> (used by tic
- and infocmp) to recognize the
- <code>setaf</code>/<code>setab</code> strings from
- <code>xterm+256color</code> and <code>xterm+88color,</code> and
- provide a reduced version which works with termcap.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Terminal Database</h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>added entries:
-
- <ul>
- <li><code>bterm</code> terminfo entry, based on bogl
- 0.1.18</li>
-
- <li><code>cons25-debian</code> entry</li>
-
- <li><code>eterm-color</code> entry</li>
-
- <li><code>linux-16color</code></li>
-
- <li><code>mlterm+256color</code> entry, for mlterm
- 3.0.0</li>
-
- <li>several screen-bce.<em>xxx</em> entries</li>
-
- <li><code>screen.Eterm</code> terminfo entry</li>
-
- <li><code>vwmterm</code> entry</li>
-
- <li><code>xterm-utf8</code> entry as a demo of the
- <code>U8</code> feature</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>updated/improved entries:
-
- <ul>
- <li>use extended capabilities:
-
- <ul>
- <li>add <code>U8</code> feature to denote entries for
- terminal emulators which do not support VT100 SI/SO
- when processing UTF-8 encoding</li>
-
- <li>add <code>XT</code> capability to entries for
- terminals that support both xterm-style mouse- and
- title-controls, for <code>screen</code> which
- special-cases TERM beginning with <code>xterm</code> or
- <code>rxvt</code></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>improvements based on new checks in tic:</li>
-
- <li style="list-style: none; display: inline">
- <ul>
- <li>fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where
- a parameterized form is available</li>
-
- <li>fill in missing cursor controls where the form of
- the controls is ANSI</li>
-
- <li>add parameterized cursor-controls to
- linux-basic</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>nsterm,</code> <code>xnuppc</code> and
- <code>tek4115</code> to make
- <code>sgr</code>/<code>sgr0</code> consistent</li>
-
- <li>change several terminfo entries to make consistent
- use of ANSI clear-all-tabs</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>extend <code>ansi.sys</code> <code>pfkey</code>
- capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving function key
- definitions from <code>emx-base</code> for
- consistency.</li>
-
- <li>correct missing final 'p' in <code>pfkey</code>
- capability of <code>ansi.sys-old</code>.</li>
-
- <li>rename <code>atari</code> and <code>st52</code>
- terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use newer entries
- from FreeMiNT.</li>
-
- <li>repurpose <code>gnome</code> terminfo entries as
- <code>vte</code>, retaining <code>gnome</code> variants for
- compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the
- VTE library is what actually defines the behavior of
- "gnome", etc., since 2003.</li>
-
- <li>improve <code>interix</code> <code>smso</code> terminfo
- capability by using reverse rather than bold.</li>
-
- <li>correct <code>initc</code> capability of
- <code>linux-c-nc</code> end-of-range, make similar change
- for <code>dg+ccc</code> and <code>dgunix+ccc</code>.</li>
-
- <li>update <code>minix</code> terminfo entry.</li>
-
- <li>updated <code>nsterm*</code> entries.</li>
-
- <li>remove unnecessary <code>kcan</code> assignment to
- <code>^C</code> from <code>putty</code>.</li>
-
- <li>suppress <code>ncv</code> in <code>screen</code> and
- <code>konsole-base</code> entries, allowing underline.</li>
-
- <li>change ncv and op capabilities in
- <code>sun-color</code> terminfo entry to match Sun's entry
- for this.</li>
-
- <li>fix typo in <code>rmso</code> for <code>tek4106</code>
- entry.</li>
-
- <li>improve <code>acsc</code> string for <code>vt52</code>,
- show arrow keys.</li>
-
- <li>add hard-reset for <code>rs2</code> to
- <code>wsvt25</code> to help ensure that reset ends the
- alternate character set.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>ccc</code> and <code>initc</code>
- capabilities to <code>xterm-16color</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>Major bug fixes</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li>ncurses library
-
- <ul>
- <li>wide character support
-
- <ul>
- <li>modify length returned by <code>getcchar</code> to
- count the trailing null which is documented in
- X/Open.</li>
-
- <li>fix an infinite recursion when adding a
- legacy-coding 8-bit value using
- <code>insch</code>.</li>
-
- <li>improve a workaround in adding wide-characters,
- when a control character is found. The library uses
- <code>unctrl</code> to obtain a printable version of
- the control character, but was not passing color or
- video attributes.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>waddch_literal</code>, updating
- line-pointer after a multicolumn character is found to
- not fit on the current row, and wrapping is done. Since
- the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
- multicolumn character was written to the beginning of
- the current row.</li>
-
- <li>fixes in <code>wins_nwstr</code> and related
- functions to ensure that special characters, i.e.,
- control characters are handled properly with the
- wide-character configuration.</li>
-
- <li>correct internal <code>_nc_insert_ch</code> to use
- <code>_nc_insert_wch</code> when inserting wide
- characters, since the <code>wins_wch</code> function
- that it used did not update the cursor position.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>mouse
-
- <ul>
- <li>add check if <code>Gpm_Open</code> returns a -2,
- e.g., for "xterm". This is normally suppressed but can
- be overridden using <code>$NCURSES_GPM_TERMS</code>.
- Ensure that <code>Gpm_Close</code> is called in this
- case.</li>
-
- <li>add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if
- GPM returns a zero, indicating that the connection is
- closed.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>getmouse</code> to act as its
- documentation implied, returning on each call the
- preceding event until none are left. When no more
- events remain, it will return <code>ERR</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>miscellaneous
-
- <ul>
- <li>improve handling of color-pairs embedded in
- attributes for the extended-colors configuration.</li>
-
- <li>add check for failure to open hashed-database
- needed for db4.6.</li>
-
- <li>modify use of <code>$CC</code> environment variable
- which is defined by X/Open as a curses feature, to
- ignore it if it is not a single character.</li>
-
- <li>modify declaration of <code>cur_term</code> when
- broken-linker is used, but enable-reentrant is not, to
- match pre-5.7.</li>
-
- <li>correct limit-checks in <code>derwin</code>.</li>
-
- <li>remove old check in <code>mvderwin</code> which
- prevented moving a derived window whose origin happened
- to coincide with its parent's origin.</li>
-
- <li>correct limit-checks in <code>newwin</code>, to
- ensure that windows have nonzero size.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>set_curterm</code> to make
- broken-linker configuration work with changes from
- 20090228.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>wgetch</code> to ensure it checks
- <code>SIGWINCH</code> when it gets an error in
- non-blocking mode.</li>
-
- <li>correct limit-check in <code>wredrawln</code>,
- accounting for <code>begy</code>/<code>begx</code>
- values.</li>
-
- <li>fix a null-pointer check in
- <code>_nc_format_slks</code> in lib_slk.c, from
- 20070704 changes.</li>
-
- <li>correct translation of "^" in
- <code>_nc_infotocap</code>, used to transform terminfo
- to termcap strings.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>_nc_wgetch</code> to check for a -1 in
- the fifo, e.g., after a <code>SIGWINCH</code>, and
- discard that value, to avoid confusing
- application.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>other libraries
-
- <ul>
- <li>correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
- <code>field_buffer</code>, which stopped at the end of the
- first row due to filling of unused entries in a cchar_t
- array with nulls.</li>
-
- <li>correct buffer-size after internal resizing of
- wide-character <code>set_field_buffer</code>, broken in
- 20081018 changes.</li>
-
- <li>correct layout of working window used to extract data
- in wide-character configured by
- <code>set_field_buffer</code></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>Portability</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li>configure script:
-
- <ul>
- <li>new options:
-
- <dl>
- <dt>--disable-libtool-version</dt>
-
- <dd>use the "-version-number" feature which was added
- in libtool 1.5. The default value for the option uses
- the newer feature, which makes libraries generated
- using libtool compatible with the standard builds of
- ncurses.</dd>
-
- <dt>--disable-rpath-hack</dt>
-
- <dd>disable a feature which adds rpath options for
- libraries in unusual places.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-interop</dt>
-
- <dd>integrate changes for generic/interop support to
- form-library.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-pc-files</dt>
-
- <dd>generate ".pc" files for each of the libraries, and
- install them in <code>pkg-config</code>'s library
- directory.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-pthreads-eintr</dt>
-
- <dd>control whether to allow <code>EINTR</code> to
- interrupt a read operation in <code>wgetch</code>. This
- applies only to the pthread configuration</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-sp-funcs</dt>
-
- <dd>compile-in support for extended functions which
- accept a <code>SCREEN</code> pointer, reducing the need
- for juggling the global <code>SP</code> value with
- <code>set_term</code> and <code>delscreen</code>.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-term-driver</dt>
-
- <dd>compile with terminal-driver. That is used in the
- MinGW port, and (being somewhat more complicated) is an
- experimental alternative to the conventional termlib
- internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature
- to be enabled.</dd>
-
- <dt>--with-ncurses-wrap-prefix</dt>
-
- <dd>allows setting the prefix for functions used to
- wrap global variables to something other than
- "<code>_nc_</code>".</dd>
-
- <dt>--with-pkg-config=[DIR]</dt>
-
- <dd>check for <code>pkg-config</code>, optionally
- specifying its path.</dd>
-
- <dt>--without-manpages</dt>
-
- <dd>tells the configure script to suppress the install
- of ncurses' manpages.</dd>
-
- <dt>--without-tests</dt>
-
- <dd>suppress building test programs.</dd>
- </dl>
- </li>
-
- <li>improved options:
-
- <ul>
- <li>correct logic for <code>--with-database</code>,
- which was coded as an enable-type switch.</li>
-
- <li>omit the opaque-functions from
- <code>lib_gen.o</code> when
- <code>--disable-ext-funcs</code> is used.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>packaging:
-
- <ul>
- <li>*-config scripts:
-
- <ul>
- <li>modify <code>adacurses-config</code> to look for
- ".ali" files in the adalib directory.</li>
-
- <li>correct install for the Ada95 tree, which omitted
- <code>libAdaCurses.a</code> used in
- <code>adacurses-config</code>.</li>
-
- <li>change install for <code>adacurses-config</code> to
- provide additional flavors such as
- <code>adacursesw-config</code>, for ncursesw.</li>
-
- <li>modify scripts to generate
- <code>ncurses*-config</code> and pc-files to add
- dependency for tinfo library.</li>
-
- <li>use <code>ncurses*-config</code> scripts if
- available for test/configure.</li>
-
- <li>correct name for termlib in
- <code>ncurses*-config</code>, e.g., if it is renamed to
- provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw
- libraries.</li>
-
- <li>generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted
- from <code>help2man</code>.</li>
-
- <li>modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config
- manpages will install when building with
- <code>--srcdir</code>.</li>
-
- <li>build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for
- wide-character configuration as well as for rpath
- feature in *-config scripts.</li>
-
- <li>use <code>$includedir</code> symbol in
- <code>misc/ncurses-config.in</code>, add
- <code>--includedir</code> option.</li>
-
- <li>improve install-rules for pc-files.</li>
-
- <li>create the <code>pkg-config</code> library
- directory if needed.</li>
-
- <li>fix typo "<code>==</code>" where "<code>=</code>"
- is needed in <code>ncurses-config.in</code> and
- <code>gen-pkgconfig.in</code> files.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>gen-pkgconfig.in</code> to eliminate a
- dependency on rpath when deciding whether to add
- <code>$LIBS</code> to <code>--libs</code> output; that
- should be shown for the ncurses and tinfo libraries
- without taking rpath into account.</li>
-
- <li>modify handling of <code>$PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR</code>
- to use only the first item in a possibly
- colon-separated list.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>other packaging issues
-
- <ul>
- <li>add <code>make-tar.sh</code> scripts to Ada95 and
- test subdirectories to help with making those
- separately distributable.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>Ada95/configure</code> script, to use in
- tar-file created by
- <code>Ada95/make-tar.sh</code>.</li>
-
- <li>remove <code>tar-copy.sh</code> and related
- <code>configure/Makefile</code> chunks, since the Ada95
- binding is now installed using rules in
- <code>Ada95/src</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>cross-compiling:
-
- <ul>
- <li>improve configure checks for location of tic and
- infocmp programs used for installing database and for
- generating fallback data, e.g., for cross-compiling.</li>
-
- <li>modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t
- symbol from compile of <code>make_hash</code> and
- <code>make_keys</code>, improving cross-compilation of
- ncursesw.</li>
-
- <li>simplify include-dependencies of <code>make_hash</code>
- and <code>make_keys</code>, to reduce the need for setting
- BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the build- and
- target-machines differ.</li>
-
- <li>correct cross-compiling configure check for
- <code>CF_MKSTEMP</code> macro, by adding a check cache
- variable set by <code>AC_CHECK_FUNC</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>library dependencies:
-
- <ul>
- <li>revise <code>wadd_wch</code> and
- <code>wecho_wchar</code> to eliminate dependency on
- <code>unctrl</code>.</li>
-
- <li>adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to
- library suffix when weak-symbols are used, allowing the
- pthread configuration to more closely match the non-thread
- naming.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>building the Ada95 tree:
-
- <ul>
- <li>changes to use gnatmake project files in the Ada95
- tree.</li>
-
- <li>add/use configure check to turn on project rules for
- <code>Ada95/src</code>.</li>
-
- <li>old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using
- project-file; work around by adding script to generate
- alternate makefile.</li>
-
- <li>add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the
- test_make rule.</li>
-
- <li>move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since
- additional checks will be needed to distinguish old/new
- implementations of gnat.</li>
-
- <li>add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in
- Ada95/src</li>
-
- <li>change install-path for adainclude directory to
- /usr/share/ada (was /usr/lib/ada).</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>other configure/build issues:
-
- <ul>
- <li>make <code>CCHARW_MAX</code> value configurable, noting
- that changing this would change the size of
- <code>cchar_t</code>, and would be ABI-incompatible.</li>
-
- <li>improve comparison of program-names when checking for
- linked flavors such as "reset" by ignoring the executable
- suffix.</li>
-
- <li>drop <code>mkdirs.sh</code>, use
- "<code>mkdir -p</code>".</li>
-
- <li>drop <code>misc/ncu-indent</code> and
- <code>misc/jpf-indent</code>; they are provided by an
- external package <a href=
- "http://invisible-island.net/cindent/cindent.html">cindent</a>.</li>
-
- <li>change makefiles to use <code>$ARFLAGS</code> rather
- than <code>$AR_OPTS</code>, provide a configure check to
- detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar" options.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>CF_DISABLE_LEAKS</code> configure macro so
- that the --enable-leaks option is not the same as
- --disable-leaks.</li>
-
- <li>improve configure script macros
- <code>CF_HEADER_PATH</code> and
- <code>CF_LIBRARY_PATH</code> by adding <code>CFLAGS</code>,
- <code>CPPFLAGS</code> and <code>LDFLAGS</code>,
- <code>LIBS</code> values to the search-lists.</li>
-
- <li>improve configure macros <code>CF_GCC_VERSION</code>
- and <code>CF_GCC_WARNINGS</code> to work with gcc 4.x's c89
- alias, which gives warning messages for cases where older
- versions would produce an error.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>CF_WITH_LIBTOOL</code> configure check to
- allow unreleased libtool version numbers (e.g. which
- include alphabetic chars, as well as digits, after the
- final '.').</li>
-
- <li>improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using
- "<code>-f</code>" option if it is supported, to eliminate
- temporary removal of the target</li>
-
- <li>add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
- <code>CC_SHARED_OPTS</code> for Solaris.</li>
-
- <li>add -shared option to <code>MK_SHARED_LIB</code> when
- -Bsharable is used, for *BSD's, without which "main" might
- be one of the shared library's dependencies.</li>
-
- <li>modify configure script to allow building shared
- libraries with gcc on AIX 5 or 6.</li>
-
- <li>suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker
- flags for gcc on Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by
- absence of static libc, and does not switch back to dynamic
- mode before finishing the libraries.</li>
-
- <li>suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker
- flags for gcc on Darwin.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>misc/run_tic.in</code> to create parent
- directory, in case this is a new install of hashed
- database.</li>
-
- <li>modify configure check for tic program, used for
- fallbacks, to a warning if not found. This makes it simpler
- to use additonal scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code
- using tic from the build tree.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>test programs:
-
- <ul>
- <li>add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with
- demo_termcap.</li>
-
- <li>improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining
- characters in color.</li>
-
- <li>fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.</li>
-
- <li>improve test/ncurses.c 'a test to put mouse droppings
- in the proper window.</li>
-
- <li>modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set with
- colored lines.</li>
-
- <li>modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder with colored
- lines.</li>
-
- <li>improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl more
- consistently to display meta-characters.</li>
-
- <li>correct use of <code>key_name</code> in test/ncurses.c
- 'A' test, which only displays wide-characters, not
- key-codes since 20070612.</li>
-
- <li>add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw
- without wrapping.</li>
-
- <li>modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address
- subtle differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX
- getcchar return values.</li>
-
- <li>add some test programs (and make these use the same
- special keys by sharing <code>linedata.h</code> functions):
- test/test_addstr.c test/test_addwstr.c test/test_addchstr.c
- test/test_add_wchstr.c</li>
-
- <li>add test/xterm-256color.dat</li>
-
- <li>modify test programs to allow them to be built with
- NetBSD curses.</li>
-
- <li>fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX,
- etc.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
+ <li>fixes a longstanding portability problem with its use of the
+ <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/form_fieldtype.3x">set_field_type</a>
+ function. Because that function uses variable-length argument lists,
+ its interface with gnat does not work with certain platforms.
+ <li>improves configurability and portability, particularly when built
+ separately from the main ncurses tree. The 5.8 release introduced
+ scripts which can be used to construct separate tarballs for the
+ Ada95 and ncurses examples.
+ <p>Those were a proof of concept. For the 5.9 release, those
+ scripts are augmented with rpm- and dpkg-scripts used in test builds
+ against a variety of gnat- and system ncurses versions as old as
+ gnat 3.15 and ncurses 5.4 (see snapshots and systems tested
+ <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-Ada95.html">here</a>.
+ <li>additional improvements were made for portability of the
+ ncurses examples, adding rpm- and dpkg-scripts for test-builds.
+ See
+ <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html">this page</a>
+ for snapshots and other information.
</ul>
<h1>Features of Ncurses</h1>The ncurses package is fully
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-# $Id: dist.mk,v 1.808 2011/03/31 00:42:12 tom Exp $
+# $Id: dist.mk,v 1.810 2011/04/04 22:42:20 tom Exp $
# Makefile for creating ncurses distributions.
#
# This only needs to be used directly as a makefile by developers, but
# These define the major/minor/patch versions of ncurses.
NCURSES_MAJOR = 5
-NCURSES_MINOR = 8
-NCURSES_PATCH = 20110402
+NCURSES_MINOR = 9
+NCURSES_PATCH = 20110404
# We don't append the patch to the version, since this only applies to releases
VERSION = $(NCURSES_MAJOR).$(NCURSES_MINOR)
<b>pragma</b> Linker_Options ("-lncurses");
<FONT COLOR=red><A NAME="ref_53_4">NC_Major_Version</A></FONT> : <b>constant</b> := 5; <FONT COLOR=green><EM>-- Major version of the library</EM></FONT>
- <FONT COLOR=red><A NAME="ref_54_4">NC_Minor_Version</A></FONT> : <b>constant</b> := 8; <FONT COLOR=green><EM>-- Minor version of the library</EM></FONT>
- <FONT COLOR=red><A NAME="ref_55_4">NC_Version</A></FONT> : <b>constant</b> String := "5.8"; <FONT COLOR=green><EM>-- Version of library</EM></FONT>
+ <FONT COLOR=red><A NAME="ref_54_4">NC_Minor_Version</A></FONT> : <b>constant</b> := 9; <FONT COLOR=green><EM>-- Minor version of the library</EM></FONT>
+ <FONT COLOR=red><A NAME="ref_55_4">NC_Version</A></FONT> : <b>constant</b> String := "5.9"; <FONT COLOR=green><EM>-- Version of library</EM></FONT>
<b>type</b> <FONT COLOR=red><A NAME="ref_57_9">Window</A></FONT> <b>is</b> <b>private</b>;
<FONT COLOR=red><A NAME="ref_58_4">Null_Window</A></FONT> : <b>constant</b> <A HREF="terminal_interface-curses__ads.htm#ref_57_9">Window</A>;
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- <h1>Announcing ncurses 5.8</h1>The ncurses (new curses)
+ <h1>Announcing ncurses 5.9</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
"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 5.7; very few applications
+ 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 5.7 release.
-
- <h2>Interface changes</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li>turn on <code>_XOPEN_CURSES</code> definition in
- <code>curses.h</code>.</li>
-
- <li>change <code>_nc_has_mouse</code> to
- <code>has_mouse</code>, reflect its use in C++ and Ada95.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>is_pad</code> and <code>is_subwin</code>
- functions for opaque access to the WINDOW structure.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>tiparm</code>, based on review of X/Open Curses
- Issue 7.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>New features and improvements</h2>
-
- <h3>Library Improvements</h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>add a terminal driver for Windows console, which supports a
- MinGW port to Windows.</li>
-
- <li>add extended functions which specify the
- <code>SCREEN</code> pointer for several curses functions which
- use the global <code>SP</code>.</li>
-
- <li>improve the <code>NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS</code> feature by
- adding a check for an extended terminfo capability
- <code>U8</code>.</li>
-
- <li>improve performance of <code>tigetstr</code>, etc., by
- using hashing code from tic.</li>
-
- <li>add WACS_<em>xxx</em> definitions to wide-character
- configuration for thick- and double-lines.</li>
-
- <li>modify init_pair to allow caller to create extra color
- pairs beyond the color_pairs limit, which use default
- colors.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Improvements to Programs</h3>
-
+ the highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.8 release.
+ <p>
+ This is a bug-fix release, correcting a small number of urgent problems
+ in the ncurses library from the 5.8 release.
+ <p>
+ It also improves the Ada95 binding:
<ul>
- <li>add <code>tabs</code> program.</li>
-
- <li>modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into
- canonical form (sorted, unique mapping).</li>
-
- <li>add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement
- controls, and for inconsistent printer-controls.</li>
-
- <li>add special case to <code>_nc_infotocap</code> (used by tic
- and infocmp) to recognize the
- <code>setaf</code>/<code>setab</code> strings from
- <code>xterm+256color</code> and <code>xterm+88color,</code> and
- provide a reduced version which works with termcap.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Terminal Database</h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>added entries:
-
- <ul>
- <li><code>bterm</code> terminfo entry, based on bogl
- 0.1.18</li>
-
- <li><code>cons25-debian</code> entry</li>
-
- <li><code>eterm-color</code> entry</li>
-
- <li><code>linux-16color</code></li>
-
- <li><code>mlterm+256color</code> entry, for mlterm
- 3.0.0</li>
-
- <li>several screen-bce.<em>xxx</em> entries</li>
-
- <li><code>screen.Eterm</code> terminfo entry</li>
-
- <li><code>vwmterm</code> entry</li>
-
- <li><code>xterm-utf8</code> entry as a demo of the
- <code>U8</code> feature</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>updated/improved entries:
-
- <ul>
- <li>use extended capabilities:
-
- <ul>
- <li>add <code>U8</code> feature to denote entries for
- terminal emulators which do not support VT100 SI/SO
- when processing UTF-8 encoding</li>
-
- <li>add <code>XT</code> capability to entries for
- terminals that support both xterm-style mouse- and
- title-controls, for <code>screen</code> which
- special-cases TERM beginning with <code>xterm</code> or
- <code>rxvt</code></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>improvements based on new checks in tic:</li>
-
- <li style="list-style: none; display: inline">
- <ul>
- <li>fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where
- a parameterized form is available</li>
-
- <li>fill in missing cursor controls where the form of
- the controls is ANSI</li>
-
- <li>add parameterized cursor-controls to
- linux-basic</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>nsterm,</code> <code>xnuppc</code> and
- <code>tek4115</code> to make
- <code>sgr</code>/<code>sgr0</code> consistent</li>
-
- <li>change several terminfo entries to make consistent
- use of ANSI clear-all-tabs</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>extend <code>ansi.sys</code> <code>pfkey</code>
- capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving function key
- definitions from <code>emx-base</code> for
- consistency.</li>
-
- <li>correct missing final 'p' in <code>pfkey</code>
- capability of <code>ansi.sys-old</code>.</li>
-
- <li>rename <code>atari</code> and <code>st52</code>
- terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use newer entries
- from FreeMiNT.</li>
-
- <li>repurpose <code>gnome</code> terminfo entries as
- <code>vte</code>, retaining <code>gnome</code> variants for
- compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the
- VTE library is what actually defines the behavior of
- "gnome", etc., since 2003.</li>
-
- <li>improve <code>interix</code> <code>smso</code> terminfo
- capability by using reverse rather than bold.</li>
-
- <li>correct <code>initc</code> capability of
- <code>linux-c-nc</code> end-of-range, make similar change
- for <code>dg+ccc</code> and <code>dgunix+ccc</code>.</li>
-
- <li>update <code>minix</code> terminfo entry.</li>
-
- <li>updated <code>nsterm*</code> entries.</li>
-
- <li>remove unnecessary <code>kcan</code> assignment to
- <code>^C</code> from <code>putty</code>.</li>
-
- <li>suppress <code>ncv</code> in <code>screen</code> and
- <code>konsole-base</code> entries, allowing underline.</li>
-
- <li>change ncv and op capabilities in
- <code>sun-color</code> terminfo entry to match Sun's entry
- for this.</li>
-
- <li>fix typo in <code>rmso</code> for <code>tek4106</code>
- entry.</li>
-
- <li>improve <code>acsc</code> string for <code>vt52</code>,
- show arrow keys.</li>
-
- <li>add hard-reset for <code>rs2</code> to
- <code>wsvt25</code> to help ensure that reset ends the
- alternate character set.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>ccc</code> and <code>initc</code>
- capabilities to <code>xterm-16color</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>Major bug fixes</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li>ncurses library
-
- <ul>
- <li>wide character support
-
- <ul>
- <li>modify length returned by <code>getcchar</code> to
- count the trailing null which is documented in
- X/Open.</li>
-
- <li>fix an infinite recursion when adding a
- legacy-coding 8-bit value using
- <code>insch</code>.</li>
-
- <li>improve a workaround in adding wide-characters,
- when a control character is found. The library uses
- <code>unctrl</code> to obtain a printable version of
- the control character, but was not passing color or
- video attributes.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>waddch_literal</code>, updating
- line-pointer after a multicolumn character is found to
- not fit on the current row, and wrapping is done. Since
- the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
- multicolumn character was written to the beginning of
- the current row.</li>
-
- <li>fixes in <code>wins_nwstr</code> and related
- functions to ensure that special characters, i.e.,
- control characters are handled properly with the
- wide-character configuration.</li>
-
- <li>correct internal <code>_nc_insert_ch</code> to use
- <code>_nc_insert_wch</code> when inserting wide
- characters, since the <code>wins_wch</code> function
- that it used did not update the cursor position.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>mouse
-
- <ul>
- <li>add check if <code>Gpm_Open</code> returns a -2,
- e.g., for "xterm". This is normally suppressed but can
- be overridden using <code>$NCURSES_GPM_TERMS</code>.
- Ensure that <code>Gpm_Close</code> is called in this
- case.</li>
-
- <li>add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if
- GPM returns a zero, indicating that the connection is
- closed.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>getmouse</code> to act as its
- documentation implied, returning on each call the
- preceding event until none are left. When no more
- events remain, it will return <code>ERR</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>miscellaneous
-
- <ul>
- <li>improve handling of color-pairs embedded in
- attributes for the extended-colors configuration.</li>
-
- <li>add check for failure to open hashed-database
- needed for db4.6.</li>
-
- <li>modify use of <code>$CC</code> environment variable
- which is defined by X/Open as a curses feature, to
- ignore it if it is not a single character.</li>
-
- <li>modify declaration of <code>cur_term</code> when
- broken-linker is used, but enable-reentrant is not, to
- match pre-5.7.</li>
-
- <li>correct limit-checks in <code>derwin</code>.</li>
-
- <li>remove old check in <code>mvderwin</code> which
- prevented moving a derived window whose origin happened
- to coincide with its parent's origin.</li>
-
- <li>correct limit-checks in <code>newwin</code>, to
- ensure that windows have nonzero size.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>set_curterm</code> to make
- broken-linker configuration work with changes from
- 20090228.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>wgetch</code> to ensure it checks
- <code>SIGWINCH</code> when it gets an error in
- non-blocking mode.</li>
-
- <li>correct limit-check in <code>wredrawln</code>,
- accounting for <code>begy</code>/<code>begx</code>
- values.</li>
-
- <li>fix a null-pointer check in
- <code>_nc_format_slks</code> in lib_slk.c, from
- 20070704 changes.</li>
-
- <li>correct translation of "^" in
- <code>_nc_infotocap</code>, used to transform terminfo
- to termcap strings.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>_nc_wgetch</code> to check for a -1 in
- the fifo, e.g., after a <code>SIGWINCH</code>, and
- discard that value, to avoid confusing
- application.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>other libraries
-
- <ul>
- <li>correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
- <code>field_buffer</code>, which stopped at the end of the
- first row due to filling of unused entries in a cchar_t
- array with nulls.</li>
-
- <li>correct buffer-size after internal resizing of
- wide-character <code>set_field_buffer</code>, broken in
- 20081018 changes.</li>
-
- <li>correct layout of working window used to extract data
- in wide-character configured by
- <code>set_field_buffer</code></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>Portability</h2>
-
- <ul>
- <li>configure script:
-
- <ul>
- <li>new options:
-
- <dl>
- <dt>--disable-libtool-version</dt>
-
- <dd>use the "-version-number" feature which was added
- in libtool 1.5. The default value for the option uses
- the newer feature, which makes libraries generated
- using libtool compatible with the standard builds of
- ncurses.</dd>
-
- <dt>--disable-rpath-hack</dt>
-
- <dd>disable a feature which adds rpath options for
- libraries in unusual places.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-interop</dt>
-
- <dd>integrate changes for generic/interop support to
- form-library.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-pc-files</dt>
-
- <dd>generate ".pc" files for each of the libraries, and
- install them in <code>pkg-config</code>'s library
- directory.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-pthreads-eintr</dt>
-
- <dd>control whether to allow <code>EINTR</code> to
- interrupt a read operation in <code>wgetch</code>. This
- applies only to the pthread configuration</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-sp-funcs</dt>
-
- <dd>compile-in support for extended functions which
- accept a <code>SCREEN</code> pointer, reducing the need
- for juggling the global <code>SP</code> value with
- <code>set_term</code> and <code>delscreen</code>.</dd>
-
- <dt>--enable-term-driver</dt>
-
- <dd>compile with terminal-driver. That is used in the
- MinGW port, and (being somewhat more complicated) is an
- experimental alternative to the conventional termlib
- internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature
- to be enabled.</dd>
-
- <dt>--with-ncurses-wrap-prefix</dt>
-
- <dd>allows setting the prefix for functions used to
- wrap global variables to something other than
- "<code>_nc_</code>".</dd>
-
- <dt>--with-pkg-config=[DIR]</dt>
-
- <dd>check for <code>pkg-config</code>, optionally
- specifying its path.</dd>
-
- <dt>--without-manpages</dt>
-
- <dd>tells the configure script to suppress the install
- of ncurses' manpages.</dd>
-
- <dt>--without-tests</dt>
-
- <dd>suppress building test programs.</dd>
- </dl>
- </li>
-
- <li>improved options:
-
- <ul>
- <li>correct logic for <code>--with-database</code>,
- which was coded as an enable-type switch.</li>
-
- <li>omit the opaque-functions from
- <code>lib_gen.o</code> when
- <code>--disable-ext-funcs</code> is used.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>packaging:
-
- <ul>
- <li>*-config scripts:
-
- <ul>
- <li>modify <code>adacurses-config</code> to look for
- ".ali" files in the adalib directory.</li>
-
- <li>correct install for the Ada95 tree, which omitted
- <code>libAdaCurses.a</code> used in
- <code>adacurses-config</code>.</li>
-
- <li>change install for <code>adacurses-config</code> to
- provide additional flavors such as
- <code>adacursesw-config</code>, for ncursesw.</li>
-
- <li>modify scripts to generate
- <code>ncurses*-config</code> and pc-files to add
- dependency for tinfo library.</li>
-
- <li>use <code>ncurses*-config</code> scripts if
- available for test/configure.</li>
-
- <li>correct name for termlib in
- <code>ncurses*-config</code>, e.g., if it is renamed to
- provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw
- libraries.</li>
-
- <li>generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted
- from <code>help2man</code>.</li>
-
- <li>modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config
- manpages will install when building with
- <code>--srcdir</code>.</li>
-
- <li>build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for
- wide-character configuration as well as for rpath
- feature in *-config scripts.</li>
-
- <li>use <code>$includedir</code> symbol in
- <code>misc/ncurses-config.in</code>, add
- <code>--includedir</code> option.</li>
-
- <li>improve install-rules for pc-files.</li>
-
- <li>create the <code>pkg-config</code> library
- directory if needed.</li>
-
- <li>fix typo "<code>==</code>" where "<code>=</code>"
- is needed in <code>ncurses-config.in</code> and
- <code>gen-pkgconfig.in</code> files.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>gen-pkgconfig.in</code> to eliminate a
- dependency on rpath when deciding whether to add
- <code>$LIBS</code> to <code>--libs</code> output; that
- should be shown for the ncurses and tinfo libraries
- without taking rpath into account.</li>
-
- <li>modify handling of <code>$PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR</code>
- to use only the first item in a possibly
- colon-separated list.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>other packaging issues
-
- <ul>
- <li>add <code>make-tar.sh</code> scripts to Ada95 and
- test subdirectories to help with making those
- separately distributable.</li>
-
- <li>add <code>Ada95/configure</code> script, to use in
- tar-file created by
- <code>Ada95/make-tar.sh</code>.</li>
-
- <li>remove <code>tar-copy.sh</code> and related
- <code>configure/Makefile</code> chunks, since the Ada95
- binding is now installed using rules in
- <code>Ada95/src</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>cross-compiling:
-
- <ul>
- <li>improve configure checks for location of tic and
- infocmp programs used for installing database and for
- generating fallback data, e.g., for cross-compiling.</li>
-
- <li>modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t
- symbol from compile of <code>make_hash</code> and
- <code>make_keys</code>, improving cross-compilation of
- ncursesw.</li>
-
- <li>simplify include-dependencies of <code>make_hash</code>
- and <code>make_keys</code>, to reduce the need for setting
- BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the build- and
- target-machines differ.</li>
-
- <li>correct cross-compiling configure check for
- <code>CF_MKSTEMP</code> macro, by adding a check cache
- variable set by <code>AC_CHECK_FUNC</code>.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>library dependencies:
-
- <ul>
- <li>revise <code>wadd_wch</code> and
- <code>wecho_wchar</code> to eliminate dependency on
- <code>unctrl</code>.</li>
-
- <li>adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to
- library suffix when weak-symbols are used, allowing the
- pthread configuration to more closely match the non-thread
- naming.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>building the Ada95 tree:
-
- <ul>
- <li>changes to use gnatmake project files in the Ada95
- tree.</li>
-
- <li>add/use configure check to turn on project rules for
- <code>Ada95/src</code>.</li>
-
- <li>old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using
- project-file; work around by adding script to generate
- alternate makefile.</li>
-
- <li>add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the
- test_make rule.</li>
-
- <li>move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since
- additional checks will be needed to distinguish old/new
- implementations of gnat.</li>
-
- <li>add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in
- Ada95/src</li>
-
- <li>change install-path for adainclude directory to
- /usr/share/ada (was /usr/lib/ada).</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>other configure/build issues:
-
- <ul>
- <li>make <code>CCHARW_MAX</code> value configurable, noting
- that changing this would change the size of
- <code>cchar_t</code>, and would be ABI-incompatible.</li>
-
- <li>improve comparison of program-names when checking for
- linked flavors such as "reset" by ignoring the executable
- suffix.</li>
-
- <li>drop <code>mkdirs.sh</code>, use
- "<code>mkdir -p</code>".</li>
-
- <li>drop <code>misc/ncu-indent</code> and
- <code>misc/jpf-indent</code>; they are provided by an
- external package <a href=
- "http://invisible-island.net/cindent/cindent.html">cindent</a>.</li>
-
- <li>change makefiles to use <code>$ARFLAGS</code> rather
- than <code>$AR_OPTS</code>, provide a configure check to
- detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar" options.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>CF_DISABLE_LEAKS</code> configure macro so
- that the --enable-leaks option is not the same as
- --disable-leaks.</li>
-
- <li>improve configure script macros
- <code>CF_HEADER_PATH</code> and
- <code>CF_LIBRARY_PATH</code> by adding <code>CFLAGS</code>,
- <code>CPPFLAGS</code> and <code>LDFLAGS</code>,
- <code>LIBS</code> values to the search-lists.</li>
-
- <li>improve configure macros <code>CF_GCC_VERSION</code>
- and <code>CF_GCC_WARNINGS</code> to work with gcc 4.x's c89
- alias, which gives warning messages for cases where older
- versions would produce an error.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>CF_WITH_LIBTOOL</code> configure check to
- allow unreleased libtool version numbers (e.g. which
- include alphabetic chars, as well as digits, after the
- final '.').</li>
-
- <li>improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using
- "<code>-f</code>" option if it is supported, to eliminate
- temporary removal of the target</li>
-
- <li>add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
- <code>CC_SHARED_OPTS</code> for Solaris.</li>
-
- <li>add -shared option to <code>MK_SHARED_LIB</code> when
- -Bsharable is used, for *BSD's, without which "main" might
- be one of the shared library's dependencies.</li>
-
- <li>modify configure script to allow building shared
- libraries with gcc on AIX 5 or 6.</li>
-
- <li>suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker
- flags for gcc on Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by
- absence of static libc, and does not switch back to dynamic
- mode before finishing the libraries.</li>
-
- <li>suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker
- flags for gcc on Darwin.</li>
-
- <li>modify <code>misc/run_tic.in</code> to create parent
- directory, in case this is a new install of hashed
- database.</li>
-
- <li>modify configure check for tic program, used for
- fallbacks, to a warning if not found. This makes it simpler
- to use additonal scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code
- using tic from the build tree.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>test programs:
-
- <ul>
- <li>add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with
- demo_termcap.</li>
-
- <li>improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining
- characters in color.</li>
-
- <li>fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.</li>
-
- <li>improve test/ncurses.c 'a test to put mouse droppings
- in the proper window.</li>
-
- <li>modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set with
- colored lines.</li>
-
- <li>modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder with colored
- lines.</li>
-
- <li>improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl more
- consistently to display meta-characters.</li>
-
- <li>correct use of <code>key_name</code> in test/ncurses.c
- 'A' test, which only displays wide-characters, not
- key-codes since 20070612.</li>
-
- <li>add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw
- without wrapping.</li>
-
- <li>modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address
- subtle differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX
- getcchar return values.</li>
-
- <li>add some test programs (and make these use the same
- special keys by sharing <code>linedata.h</code> functions):
- test/test_addstr.c test/test_addwstr.c test/test_addchstr.c
- test/test_add_wchstr.c</li>
-
- <li>add test/xterm-256color.dat</li>
-
- <li>modify test programs to allow them to be built with
- NetBSD curses.</li>
-
- <li>fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX,
- etc.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
+ <li>fixes a longstanding portability problem with its use of the
+ <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/form_fieldtype.3x">set_field_type</a>
+ function. Because that function uses variable-length argument lists,
+ its interface with gnat does not work with certain platforms.
+ <li>improves configurability and portability, particularly when built
+ separately from the main ncurses tree. The 5.8 release introduced
+ scripts which can be used to construct separate tarballs for the
+ Ada95 and ncurses examples.
+ <p>Those were a proof of concept. For the 5.9 release, those
+ scripts are augmented with rpm- and dpkg-scripts used in test builds
+ against a variety of gnat- and system ncurses versions as old as
+ gnat 3.15 and ncurses 5.4 (see snapshots and systems tested
+ <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-Ada95.html">here</a>.
+ <li>additional improvements were made for portability of the
+ ncurses examples, adding rpm- and dpkg-scripts for test-builds.
+ See
+ <a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html">this page</a>
+ for snapshots and other information.
</ul>
<h1>Features of Ncurses</h1>The ncurses package is fully
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>--cflags</STRONG>
echos the gnat (Ada compiler) flags needed to com-
- pile with adacurses
+ pile with AdaCurses.
<STRONG>--libs</STRONG> echos the gnat libraries needed to link with
- adacurses
+ AdaCurses.
<STRONG>--version</STRONG>
- echos the release+patchdate version of adacurses
+ echos the release+patchdate version of the ncurses
+ libraries used to configure and build AdaCurses.
- <STRONG>--help</STRONG> prints this message
+ <STRONG>--help</STRONG> prints a list of the <STRONG>adacurses-config</STRONG> script's
+ options.
</PRE>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
</PRE>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
</PRE>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
<STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
</PRE>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
</PRE>
</PRE>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
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 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library emulates the curses library of System
V Release 4 UNIX, and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide)
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
</PRE>
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
nals by giving a set of capabilities which they have, by
specifying how to perform screen operations, and by speci-
fying padding requirements and initialization sequences.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
Entries in <EM>terminfo</EM> consist of a sequence of `,' separated
fields (embedded commas may be escaped with a backslash or
<STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="toe.1m.html">toe(1m)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
</PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infocmp.1m.html">infocmp(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="captoinfo.1m.html">captoinfo(1m)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="infotocap.1m.html">infotocap(1m)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="stty.1.html">stty(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tabs.1.html">tabs(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
<STRONG><A HREF="csh.1.html">csh(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="sh.1.html">sh(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="stty.1.html">stty(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="tty.4.html">tty(4)</A></STRONG>, ter-
<STRONG><A HREF="minfo.5.html">minfo(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ttys.5.html">ttys(5)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="environ.7.html">environ(7)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.8 (patch 20110226).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20110404).
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