ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120922

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1953 2012/09/08 22:05:39 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1957 2012/09/22 20:11:31 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,14 +45,23 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20120922
+       + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
+         for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
+       + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
+         use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
+         "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
+       + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
+         older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
+
 20120908
        + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
-         to help with mingw port.
+         to help with MinGW port.
 
 20120903
        + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
          there.
-       + modifications for mingw port to make wide-character display usable.
+       + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
 
 20120902
        + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).