ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070106

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1058 2006/12/24 00:50:10 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1064 2007/01/06 22:55:02 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,7 +45,26 @@ 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.
 
-20061223 
+20070106
+       + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
+       + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
+         (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20061230
+       + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+         (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+       + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
+         defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
+       + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
+         lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
+       + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
+         names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
+       + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
+         to manpages as needed.
+       + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
+       + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
+
+20061223
        + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
          from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
        + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
@@ -54,7 +73,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 
 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
 
-20061217 
+20061217
        + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
          definitions in <wchar.h>.
        + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
@@ -3456,7 +3475,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 
 20000923
        + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
-         save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. 
+         save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
          The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
          <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
        + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in