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--- $Id: README,v 1.23 2006/04/22 22:19:37 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: README,v 1.29 2021/06/17 21:20:30 tom Exp $
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README file for the ncurses package
Browse the file misc/ncurses-intro.html for narrative descriptions of how
to use ncurses and the panel, menu, and form libraries.
-
+
Browse the file doc/html/hackguide.html for a tour of the package internals.
ROADMAP AND PACKAGE OVERVIEW:
You should be reading this file in a directory called: ncurses-d.d, where d.d
is the current version number (see the dist.mk file in this directory for
that). There should be a number of subdirectories, including `c++', `form',
-`man', `menu', `misc', `ncurses', `panel', `progs', `test', 'tack' and `Ada95'.
+`man', `menu', `misc', `ncurses', `panel', `progs', `test', 'tack' and `Ada95'.
(The 'tack' program may be distributed separately).
A full build/install of this package typically installs several libraries, a
library interfaces are not binary-compatible with the non-wide-character
version.
+If you configure using the --enable-reentrant option, a "t" is appended to the
+library names (e.g., libncursest.a) and the resulting libraries have a
+different binary interface which makes the ncurses interface more "opaque".
+
The ncurses libraries implement the curses API. The panel, menu and forms
libraries implement clones of the SVr4 panel, menu and forms APIs. The source
code for these lives in the `ncurses', `panel', `menu', and `form' directories
tic -- terminfo source to binary compiler
infocmp -- terminfo binary to source decompiler/comparator
clear -- emits clear-screen for current terminal
+ tabs -- set tabs on a terminal
tput -- shell-script access to terminal capabilities.
- toe -- table of entries utility
+ toe -- table of entries utility
tset -- terminal-initialization utility
The first two (tic and infocmp) are used for manipulating terminfo
AUTHORS:
-Pavel Curtis:
+Pavel Curtis:
wrote the original ncurses
Zeyd M. Ben-Halim:
configuration scripts, porting, mods to adhere to XSI Curses in the
areas of background color, terminal modes. Also memory leak testing,
the wresize, default colors and key definition extensions and numerous
- bug fixes (more than half of those enumerated in NEWS beginning with
- the internal release 1.8.9).
+ bug fixes -- more than half of those enumerated in NEWS beginning with
+ the internal release 1.8.9, see
+
+ https://invisible-island.net/personal/changelogs.html
Florian La Roche (official maintainer for FSF's ncurses 4.2)
Beginning with release 4.2, ncurses is distributed under an MIT-style