ncurses 5.9 - patch 20130720

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2069 2013/06/08 21:00:03 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2080 2013/07/20 19:13:11 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,46 @@ 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.
 
+20130720
+       + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
+         initialization of cur_term.
+
+20130713
+       + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
+       + minor compiler-warning fixes
+
+20130706
+       + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
+       + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
+         wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
+       + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
+         --enable-auto-import flag.
+       + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
+         table issues.
+
+20130622
+       + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
+         capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
+         Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
+       + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
+       + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
+         of sgr.
+       + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
+       + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
+         (patch by Eric Raymond).
+
+20130615
+       + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
+       + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik):
+         + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
+           tab-lists options.
+         + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
+         + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
+           not printing the full pathname of the program.
+         + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
+       + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
+         such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
+
 20130608
        + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
          as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
@@ -201,7 +241,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 20130209
        + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
          of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
-         mingw environment.
+         MinGW environment.
        + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
          no corresponding compiled-in value for that.  Fill in "no default
          value" for that part of the manpage substitution.