ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180623

[ncurses.git] / man / form.3x

diff --git a/man/form.3x b/man/form.3x
index c21f857b3a4540b8312690e5b7a5a86238840e89..ecc7a44087387d61eb9f9ece548d7c08adbb1696 100644 (file)
--- a/man/form.3x
+++ b/man/form.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -27,8 +27,16 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.28 2016/10/29 22:26:35 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.30 2017/11/25 20:28:02 tom Exp $
 .TH form 3X ""
+.ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
+.el       .ds `` ``
+.ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
+.el       .ds '' ''
+.de bP
+.ie n  .IP \(bu 4
+.el    .IP \(bu 2
+..
 .SH NAME
 \fBform\fR \- curses extension for programming forms
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -196,13 +204,25 @@ The header file \fB<form.h>\fR automatically includes the header files
 \fB<curses.h>\fR and \fB<eti.h>\fR.
 .PP
 In your library list, libform.a should be before libncurses.a; that is,
-you want to say `\-lform \-lncurses', not the other way around (which would
-give you a link error using most linkers).
+you want to say \*(``\-lform \-lncurses\*('', not the other way around
+(which would give you a link error when using static libraries).
 .SH PORTABILITY
 These routines emulate the System V forms library.  They were not supported on
 Version 7 or BSD versions.
 .PP
-A few functions are extensions added for ncurses, e.g.,
+The menu facility was documented in SVr4.2 in
+\fICharacter User Interface Programming (UNIX SVR4.2)\fP.
+.PP
+It is not part of X/Open Curses.
+.PP
+Aside from ncurses, there are few implementations:
+.bP
+systems based on SVr4 source code, e.g., Solaris.
+.bP
+NetBSD curses.
+.PP
+A few functions in this implementation are extensions added for ncurses,
+but not provided by other implementations, e.g.,
 \fBform_driver_w\fP,
 \fBunfocus_current_field\fP.
 .SH AUTHORS