X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fncurses-intro.html;h=3500e7a6f84636edb04b3297d8d917d9ba8cb15c;hb=refs%2Ftags%2Fv5.3;hp=05c756e0e8b4474eb84fb8309af8c22868166e8f;hpb=c633e5103a29a38532cf1925257b91cea33fd090;p=ncurses.git
diff --git a/doc/html/ncurses-intro.html b/doc/html/ncurses-intro.html
index 05c756e0..3500e7a6 100644
--- a/doc/html/ncurses-intro.html
+++ b/doc/html/ncurses-intro.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
@@ -221,13 +221,13 @@ maintainer of this package is
<esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
wrote many of the new features in versions after 1.8.1
and wrote most of this introduction.
-Jürgen Pfeifer
+Jürgen Pfeifer
wrote all of the menu and forms code as well as the
Ada95 binding.
Ongoing work is being done by
Thomas Dickey
and
-Jürgen Pfeifer.
+Jürgen Pfeifer.
Florian La Roche
acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, which holds the
copyright on ncurses.
@@ -704,7 +704,11 @@ restore the ncurses screen from before the escape.
newterm() instead of initscr(). newterm() should
be called once for each terminal. It returns a variable of type
SCREEN * which should be saved as a reference to that
-terminal. The arguments are the type of the terminal (a string) and
+terminal.
+(NOTE: a SCREEN variable is not a screen in the sense we
+are describing in this introduction, but a collection of
+parameters used to assist in optimizing the display.)
+The arguments are the type of the terminal (a string) and
FILE pointers for the output and input of the terminal. If
type is NULL then the environment variable $TERM is used.
endwin() should called once at wrapup time for each terminal