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wrote many of the new features in versions after 1.8.1
and wrote most of this introduction.
-<A HREF="mailto:juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>
+<A HREF="http://www.familiepfeifer.de/Contact.aspx?Lang=en">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>
wrote all of the menu and forms code as well as the
<A HREF="http://www.adahome.com">Ada95</A> binding.
Ongoing work is being done by
<A HREF="mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com">Thomas Dickey</A>
and
-<A HREF="mailto:juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>.
+<A HREF="http://www.familiepfeifer.de/Contact.aspx?Lang=en">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>.
<A HREF="mailto:florian@gnu.org">Florian La Roche</A>
acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, which holds the
copyright on ncurses.
<CODE>newterm()</CODE> instead of <CODE>initscr()</CODE>. <CODE>newterm()</CODE> should
be called once for each terminal. It returns a variable of type
<CODE>SCREEN *</CODE> which should be saved as a reference to that
-terminal. The arguments are the type of the terminal (a string) and
+terminal.
+(NOTE: a SCREEN variable is not a <em>screen</em> in the sense we
+are describing in this introduction, but a collection of
+parameters used to assist in optimizing the display.)
+The arguments are the type of the terminal (a string) and
<CODE>FILE</CODE> pointers for the output and input of the terminal. If
type is NULL then the environment variable <CODE>$TERM</CODE> is used.
<CODE>endwin()</CODE> should called once at wrapup time for each terminal
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