-</PRE>
-<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">curs_terminfo(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_threads.3x.html">curs_threads(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>.
+ These symbols provide a faster method of accessing terminfo capabili-
+ ties than using <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">tigetstr(3x)</A></STRONG>, etc.
+
+ The actual definition of <STRONG>CUR</STRONG> depends upon the implementation, but each
+ terminfo library provides these long names defined to point into the
+ current terminal description loaded into memory.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
+ The low-level terminfo interface is initialized using <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">setupterm(3x)</A></STRONG>.
+ The upper-level curses interface uses the low-level terminfo interface,
+ internally.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+ X/Open Curses does not describe any of these except for <STRONG>cur_term</STRONG>. (The
+ inclusion of <STRONG>cur_term</STRONG> appears to be an oversight, since other compara-
+ ble low-level information is omitted by X/Open).