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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 2008-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright 2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                           --
+-- Copyright 2008-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   --
 --                                                                           --
 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.7 2012/01/07 21:26:05 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: README.MinGW,v 1.11 2020/07/11 13:31:30 juergen Exp $
 -- Author: Juergen Pfeifer
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@@ -55,8 +56,9 @@ to provide the includes, libraries and DLLs to be used with the more
 common traditional development environments on Windows, mainly with
 Microsoft Visual Studio.
 
-It is necessary to unset the TERM environment variable, to activate the
-Windows console-driver.
+The TERM environment variable must be set specially to active the Windows
+console-driver.  The driver checks if TERM is set to "#win32con" (explicit
+use) or if TERM is unset or empty (implicit).
 
 Please also make sure that MSYS links to the correct directory containing
 your MinGW toolchain. For TDM this is usually C:\MinGW64. In your Windows
@@ -83,7 +85,9 @@ hooks for interop, I recommend using these options:
          --enable-term-driver
          --enable-interop
 
-This is the configuration commandline as I'm using it at the moment (assuming environment variable MINGW_ROOT to hold the root directory name of your MinGW build):
+This is the configuration commandline as I'm using it at the moment (assuming
+environment variable MINGW_ROOT to hold the root directory name of your MinGW
+build):
 
 ./configure \
        --prefix=$MINGW_ROOT \
@@ -109,18 +113,12 @@ export PATH_SEPARATOR=";"
 in order to parse the terminfo paths correctly. Terminfo paths should
 always be separated by a seeeemicolon,even when running under MSYS.
 
-To support regular expressions properly, ncurses under MinGW should be
-linked against the gnurx regex library, which must be built separately
-under MinGW.  See
-
-    ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/libgnurx-src-2.5.zip
-
 All the options above are - like the whole Windows support -
 experimental.
 
 A lot is still TODO, e.g.:
 
-  - Wide Character support
+  - Wide Character support (display is workable, but input untested)
     The Win32Con driver should actually only use Unicode in the
     future.
   - Thread support (locking). If using TDM toolchain this is done by
@@ -131,5 +129,9 @@ A lot is still TODO, e.g.:
   - Workarounds for MinGW's filesystem access are necessary to make infocmp
     work (though tic works).
 
-To support terminfo, we need to have an ioctl() simulation for the
-serial and networked Terminals.
+Recent Windows 10 releases have a new Console implementation that supports
+ANSI-style terminal emulation. Also, there is a new "Windows Terminal" App
+from Microsoft that hosts the new Console in a tabbed user interface. With
+this, it is possble to try using terminfo, the TERM environment varianle
+should be set to ms-terminal.
+