ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070721

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1137 2007/06/12 20:37:41 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1147 2007/07/21 22:28:54 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,53 @@ 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.
 
+20070721
+       + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
+       + add test/test_get_wstr.c
+       + add test/test_getstr.c
+       + add test/test_inwstr.c
+       + add test/test_instr.c
+
+20070716
+       + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
+         is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
+         (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
+         cf: 20070310).
+
+20070714
+       + add test/savescreen.c test-program
+       + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
+         ".log" to the name and try again.
+       + add konsole-256color entry -TD
+       + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
+       + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
+       + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
+         --disable-echo option is used.
+       + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
+         writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20070707
+       + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
+       + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
+         taking into account some split characters on left/right window
+         boundaries.
+
+20070630
+       + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
+         problems with multi-column characters.
+       + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
+         which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+       + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
+         multi-column extension bits are passed there.
+       + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
+       + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
+         report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
+
+20070623
+       + add test/demo_panels.c
+       + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
+
 20070612
        + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
          #226 -TD