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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).
+ <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20140809).
The <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library emulates the curses library of System
V Release 4 UNIX, and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide)
TERM Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is
distinct, though many are similar.
+ <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> is commonly set by terminal emulators to help
+ applications find a workable terminal description.
+ Some of those choose a popular approximation, e.g.,
+ "ansi", "vt100", "xterm" rather than an exact fit.
+ Not infrequently, your application will have problems
+ with that approach, e.g., incorrect function-key def-
+ initions.
+
+ If you set <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> in your environment, it has no effect
+ on the operation of the terminal emulator. It only
+ affects the way applications work within the termi-
+ nal. Likewise, as a general rule (<STRONG>xterm</STRONG> being a rare
+ exception), terminal emulators which allow you to
+ specify <STRONG>TERM</STRONG> as a parameter or configuration value do
+ not change their behavior to match that setting.
+
TERMCAP
If the <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> library has been configured with <EM>term-</EM>
<EM>cap</EM> support, <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> will check for a terminal's
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