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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library routines give the user a terminal-
independent method of updating character screens with rea-
- 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 5.9 (patch 20130309).
+ sonable optimization. This implementation is "new curses"
+ (ncurses) and is the approved replacement for 4.4BSD clas-
+ sic curses, which has been discontinued. This describes
+ <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20140524).
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library emulates the curses library of System
V Release 4 UNIX, and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide)
ing the runtime behavior of the <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library. The most
important ones have been already discussed in detail.
- BAUDRATE
- The debugging library checks this environment vari-
- able when the application has redirected output to a
- file. The variable's numeric value is used for the
- baudrate. If no value is found, <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> uses 9600.
- This allows testers to construct repeatable test-
- cases that take into account costs that depend on
- baudrate.
-
CC When set, change occurrences of the command_character
(i.e., the <STRONG>cmdch</STRONG> capability) of the loaded terminfo
entries to the value of this variable. Very few ter-
ignores it if it does not happen to be a single char-
acter.
+ BAUDRATE
+ The debugging library checks this environment vari-
+ able when the application has redirected output to a
+ file. The variable's numeric value is used for the
+ baudrate. If no value is found, <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> uses 9600.
+ This allows testers to construct repeatable test-
+ cases that take into account costs that depend on
+ baudrate.
+
COLUMNS
Specify the width of the screen in characters.
Applications running in a windowing environment usu-
tive value from zero to the terminfo <STRONG>max_colors</STRONG> value
is allowed.
+ NCURSES_CONSOLE2
+ This applies only to the MinGW port of ncurses.
+
+ The <STRONG>Console2</STRONG> program's handling of the Microsoft Con-
+ sole API call <STRONG>CreateConsoleScreenBuffer</STRONG> is defective.
+ Applications which use this will hang. However, it
+ is possible to simulate the action of this call by
+ mapping coordinates, explicitly saving and restoring
+ the original screen contents. Setting the environ-
+ ment variable <STRONG>NCGDB</STRONG> has the same effect.
+
NCURSES_GPM_TERMS
This applies only to ncurses configured to use the
GPM interface.
variable to disable the feature. You can also adjust
your <STRONG>stty</STRONG> settings to avoid the problem.
- NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIES
+ NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
Some terminals use a magic-cookie feature which
requires special handling to make highlighting and
other video attributes display properly. You can
applications to be built using either library from
the same set of headers.
+ --with-pthread
+ The configure script renames the library. All of the
+ library names have a "t" appended to them (before any
+ "w" added by <STRONG>--enable-widec</STRONG>).
+
+ The global variables such as <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> are replaced by
+ macros to allow read-only access. At the same time,
+ setter-functions are provided to set these values.
+ Some applications (very few) may require changes to
+ work with this convention.
+
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