ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110723

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1734 2011/07/16 22:24:30 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1743 2011/07/23 22:02:25 tom Exp $

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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started


@@ -45,6 +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.
 
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 

+20110723
+       + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
+         extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
+       + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
+         the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
+       + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
+       + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
+         (Yuri Pankov).
+       + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
+         to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
+         regarding Schilling's test program):
+         + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
+         + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
+         + use \040 rather than \s
+         + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
+       + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
+

 20110716
        + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
          pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
 20110716
        + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
          pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).