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sonable optimization. This implementation is ``new
curses'' (ncurses) and is the approved replacement for
4.4BSD classic curses, which has been discontinued. This
- describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.5 (patch 20061209).
+ describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.6 (patch 20061224).
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> routines emulate the <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG> library of
System V Release 4 UNIX, and the XPG4 curses standard (XSI
NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS
Override the compiled-in assumption that the termi-
nal's default colors are white-on-black (see
- <STRONG><A HREF="assume_default_colors.3x.html">assume_default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG>). You may set the fore-
- ground and background color values with this environ-
- ment variable by proving a 2-element list:
+ <STRONG><A HREF="default_colors.3x.html">default_colors(3x)</A></STRONG>). You may set the foreground and
+ background color values with this environment vari-
+ able by proving a 2-element list:
foreground,background. For example, to tell ncurses
to not assume anything about the colors, set this to
"-1,-1". To make it green-on-black, set it to "2,0".