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1193354Srmacklem<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> 2193354Srmacklem<!-- 3193354Srmacklem $Id: announce.html,v 1.39 2000/10/20 10:47:16 tom Exp $ 4193354Srmacklem--> 5193354Srmacklem<HTML> 6193354Srmacklem<HEAD> 7193354Srmacklem<TITLE>Announcing ncurses 5.2</TITLE> 8193354Srmacklem<link rev=made href="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org"> 9193354Srmacklem</HEAD> 10193354Srmacklem<BODY> 11193354Srmacklem 12193354Srmacklem<H1>Announcing ncurses 5.2</H1> 13193354Srmacklem 14193354SrmacklemThe ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of 15193354Srmacklemcurses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format, 16193354Srmacklemsupports pads and color 17193354Srmacklemand multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, 18193354Srmacklemand has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD curses.<P> 19193354Srmacklem 20In mid-June 1995, the maintainer of 4.4BSD curses declared that he 21considered 4.4BSD curses obsolete, and is encouraging the keepers of 22Unix releases such as BSD/OS, freeBSD and netBSD to switch over to 23ncurses.<P> 24 25The ncurses code was developed under GNU/Linux. It should port easily to 26any ANSI/POSIX-conforming UNIX. It has even been ported to OS/2 Warp!<P> 27 28The distribution includes the library and support utilities, including a 29terminfo compiler tic(1), a decompiler infocmp(1), clear(1), tput(1), tset(1), 30and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo(1). Full manual pages are provided for 31the library and tools.<P> 32 33The ncurses distribution is available via anonymous FTP at 34the GNU distribution site 35<A HREF="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses</A>. 36<br>It is also available at 37<A HREF="ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses">ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses</A>. 38 39<H1>Release Notes</H1> 40 41This release is designed to be upward compatible from ncurses 5.0 and 5.1; 42very few applications will require recompilation, depending on the platform. 43These are the highlights from the change-log since ncurses 5.1 release. 44<p> 45Interface changes: 46<ul> 47 <li>change type of <code>ospeed</code> variable back to 48 <code>short</code> to match its use in legacy applications. It was 49 altered after ncurses 4.2 to <code>speed_t</code> to repair a type 50 mismatch which was introduced after 1.9.4 in 1995. The principal 51 users of termcap continued to use <code>short</code>, which is 52 not the same size. 53 <p> 54 <em>NOTE</em>: A few applications will have to be recompiled 55 (about 1% of the programs in a typical Linux distribution, 56 10% of the programs that use ncurses). These are easy to 57 identify with <code>nm</code> or <code>strings</code>. 58 59 <li>remove a private function <code>_nc_can_clear_with()</code>, which 60 was built with the configure --enable-expanded option but not used. 61 62 <li>add several private functions (prefixed with "_nc_") for tracing 63 <code>chtype</code> values in the debug library, and for better 64 access and buffer limit checking. 65</ul> 66New features and improvements: 67<ul> 68 <li>rewrote <code>tgoto()</code> to make it better support existing 69 termcap applications which use hardcoded strings rather than obtain 70 all of their information from the termcap file. If the string does 71 not appear to be a terminfo string (i.e., does not refer to a "%p" 72 parameter, or terminfo-style padding), and termcap support is configured, <code>tgoto()</code> 73 will interpret it as termcap. Otherwise, as before, it will use 74 <code>tparm()</code>. 75 76 <li>to ensure that the <code>tgoto()</code> changes work properly, 77 added checks to <code>tic</code> which report capabilities that do 78 not reference the expected number of parameters. 79 80 <li>new configure script options: 81 <ul> 82 <li>option <code>--disable-root-environ</code> adds runtime checks 83 which tell ncurses to disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment 84 variables if the current user is root, or running setuid/setgid. 85 86 <li>option <code>--disable-assumed-color</code> allows you to use the 87 pre-5.1 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be 88 configured (see assume_default_colors()). 89 90 <li>implement configure script options that transform installed 91 program names, e.g., <code>--program-prefix</code>, including the 92 manpage names and cross references. 93 94 <li>option <code>--with-database</code> allows you to specify a 95 different terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, the 96 default is misc/emx.src, otherwise misc/terminfo.src 97 98 <li>option <code>--with-default-terminfo-dir</code> allows you to 99 specify the default terminfo database directory. 100 101 <li>option <code>--with-libtool</code> allows you to build with 102 <code>libtool</code>. <p> <em>NOTE</em>: <code>libtool</code> 103 uses a different notation for numbering shared library versions 104 from the existing ncurses configuration. 105 106 <li>option <code>--with-manpage-tbl</code> causes the manpages to be 107 preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation, 108 109 <li>option <code>--without-curses-h</code> causes the installation 110 process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make appropriate 111 changes to headers and manpages. 112 </ul> 113 114 <li>modified configure script options: 115 <ul> 116 <li>change symbol used by the <code>--install-prefix</code> configure 117 option from <code>INSTALL_PREFIX</code> to <code>DESTDIR</code> 118 (the latter has become common usage although the name is 119 misleading). 120 121 <li>modify <code>ld -rpath</code> options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) 122 to use an absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory, 123 avoiding confusion with directories relative to the current one 124 with the installed programs. 125 126 <li>modified <code>misc/run_tic.in</code> to use 127 <code>tic -o</code>, to eliminate dependency on 128 <code>$TERMINFO</code> variable for installs. 129 </ul> 130 131 <li>terminfo database: 132 <ul> 133 <li>updated xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146. 134 135 <li>added amiga-vnc, 136 Matrix Orbital, and 137 QNX qansi to misc/terminfo.src. 138 139 <li>added os2 entry to misc/emx.src. 140 141 <li>add S0 and E0 extensions to <code>screen</code>'s terminfo entry 142 since otherwise the FreeBSD port makes it pass termcap equivalents 143 to <code>tgoto</code>, which would be misinterpreted by older 144 versions of ncurses. 145 </ul> 146 147 <li>improvements to program usability: 148 <ul> 149 <li>modify programs to use <code>curses_version()</code> string to 150 report the version of ncurses with which they are compiled rather 151 than the NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch 152 level in addition to the major and minor version numbers. 153 154 <li>modify <code>tput</code> program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as 155 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as <code>tput reset</code> or <code>tput init</code>. 156 157 <li>add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that 158 the option value is indeed a number. 159 </ul> 160 161 <li>improved performance: 162 <ul> 163 <li>replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode 164 <code>no_color_video</code> with a logic expression which is faster. 165 </ul> 166 167</ul> 168Major bug fixes: 169<ul> 170 <li>correct <code>manlinks.sed</code> script introduced in ncurses 5.1 171 to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not understood by standard versions 172 of <code>sed</code>. This happens to work with GNU <code>sed</code>, 173 but is not portable, and was the initial motivation for this release. 174 175 <li>remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro. 176 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic 177 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of 178 5.0 shared libraries. 179 180 <li>guard against corrupt terminfo data: 181 <ul> 182 <li>modify <code>tparm()</code> to disallow arithmetic on strings, 183 analyze the varargs list to read strings as strings and numbers as 184 numbers. 185 186 <li>modify <code>tparm()</code>'s internal function 187 <code>spop()</code> to treat a null pointer as an empty string. 188 189 <li>modify <code>parse_format()</code> in lib_tparm.c to ignore 190 precision if it is longer than 10000. 191 192 <li>rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions 193 <code>_nc_safe_strcat()</code>, etc. Made other related changes to 194 check lengths used for <code>strcat()</code> and 195 <code>strcpy()</code>. 196 </ul> 197 198 <li>corrections to screen optimization: 199 <ul> 200 <li>added special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and 201 standout for devices that have no sgr0 defined. 202 203 <li>change handling of <code>non_dest_scroll_region</code> in 204 tty_update.c to clear text after it is shifted in rather than before 205 shifting out. Also correct row computation. 206 207 <li>modify <code>rs2</code> capability in xterm-r6 and similar entries 208 where cursor save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video 209 attributes. The cursor restore would undo that. 210 </ul> 211 212 <li>UTF-8 support: 213 <ul> 214 <li>when checking LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables 215 for UTF-8 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as 216 per SUSV2. 217 218 <li>encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2. 219 220 <li>modify <code>_nc_utf8_outch()</code> to avoid sign-extension when 221 checking for out-of-range value. 222 </ul> 223 224 <li>other library fixes: 225 <ul> 226 <li>added checks for an empty <code>$HOME</code> environment 227 variable, to avoid retrieving terminfo descriptions from 228 <code>./.terminfo</code> . 229 230 <li>change functions <code>_nc_parse_entry()</code> and 231 <code>postprocess_termcap()</code> to avoid using 232 <code>strtok()</code>, because it is non-reentrant. 233 234 <li>initialize <code>fds[]</code> array to 0's in 235 <code>_nc_timed_wait()</code>; apparently <code>poll()</code> only 236 sets the <code>revents</code> members of that array when there is 237 activity corresponding to the related file. 238 239 <li>add a check for null pointer in <code>Make_Enum_Type()</code>. 240 241 <li>fix a heap problem with the c++ binding. 242 243 <li>correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, 244 including the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use 245 the <code>-fno-builtin</code> option. 246 </ul> 247 248 <li>several fixes for tic: 249 <ul> 250 <li>add a check for empty buffers returned by <code>fgets()</code> in 251 comp_scan.c <code>next_char()</code> function, in case 252 <code>tic</code> is run on a non-text file (fixes a core dump). 253 254 <li>modify <code>tic</code> to verify that its inputs are really files, 255 in case someone tries to read a directory (or 256 <code>/dev/zero</code>). 257 258 <li>correct an uninitialized parameter to <code>open_tempfile()</code> 259 in tic.c which made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about 260 <code>tmpnam</code>. 261 262 <li>correct logic in <code>adjust_cancels()</code>, which did not check 263 both alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between 264 boolean, number and string, causing an infinite loop in 265 <code>tic</code>. 266 </ul> 267 268 <li>using new checks in <code>tic</code> for parameter counts in 269 capability strings, found/fixed several errors both in the 270 terminfo database and in the include/Caps file. 271 <ul> 272 <li>modified several terminfo capability strings, including the 273 definitions for setaf, setab, in include/Caps to indicate that the 274 entries are parameterized. This information is used to tell which 275 strings are translated when converting to termcap. This fixes a 276 problem where the generated termcap would contain a spurious "%p1" 277 for the terminfo "%p1%d". 278 279 <li>correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some 280 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp. 281 </ul> 282 283 <li>various fixes for install scripts used to support configure 284 <code>--srcdir</code> and <code>--with-install-prefix</code>. 285 286 <li>correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH" 287 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and 288 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x. 289</ul> 290 291Portability: 292<ul> 293 <li>configure script: 294 <ul> 295 <li>newer config.guess, config.sub, including changes to support OS/2 296 EMX. The configure script for OS/2 EMX still relies on a patch 297 since there is no (working) support for that platform in the main 298 autoconf distribution. 299 300 <li>make configure script checks on variables <code>$GCC</code> and 301 <code>$GXX</code> consistently compare against 'yes' rather than 302 test if they are nonnull, since either may be set to the 303 corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler. 304 305 <li>change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than 306 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that <code>configure --target</code> 307 will set a default program-prefix. 308 309 <li>modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory 310 accesses, which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines 311 (if not, there's still the explicit configure option). 312 313 <li>modify configure test for <code>tcgetattr()</code> to allow for 314 old implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a 315 macro. 316 317 <li>add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do 318 not distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix 319 tags rules in makefiles. 320 321 <li>add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for 322 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in 323 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef". 324 325 <li>change most remaining unquoted parameters of <code>test</code> in 326 configure script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the 327 <code>--disable-database</code> option. 328 329 <li>modify scripts so that "make install.data" works on OS/2 EMX. 330 331 <li>modify scripts and makefiles so the Ada95 directory builds on 332 OS/2 EMX. 333 </ul> 334 335 <li>library: 336 <ul> 337 <li>replaced case-statement in <code>_nc_tracebits()</code> for CSIZE 338 with a table to simplify working around implementations that define 339 random combinations of the related macros to zero. 340 341 <li>improved OS/2 mouse support by retrying as a 2-button mouse if code 342 fails to set up a 3-button mouse. 343 344 <li>added private entrypoint <code>_nc_basename()</code>, used to 345 consolidate related code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX 346 pathnames. 347 348 <li>alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty. 349 350 <li>redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have 351 an (unspecified) symbol conflict. 352 </ul> 353 354 <li>programs: 355 <ul> 356 <li>modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb 357 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this 358 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does 359 work). 360 </ul> 361 362</ul> 363 364<H1>Features of Ncurses</H1> 365 366The ncurses package is fully compatible with SVr4 (System V Release 4) curses: 367 368<UL> 369<LI>All 257 of the SVr4 calls have been implemented (and are documented). 370<LI>Full support for SVr4 curses features including keyboard mapping, color, 371forms-drawing with ACS characters, and automatic recognition of keypad 372and function keys. 373<LI>An emulation of the SVr4 panels library, supporting 374a stack of windows with backing store, is included. 375<LI>An emulation of the SVr4 menus library, supporting 376a uniform but flexible interface for menu programming, is included. 377<LI>An emulation of the SVr4 form library, supporting 378data collection through on-screen forms, is included. 379<LI>Binary terminfo entries generated by the ncurses tic(1) implementation 380are bit-for-bit-compatible with the entry format SVr4 curses uses. 381<LI>The utilities have options to allow you to filter terminfo 382entries for use with less capable <STRONG>curses</STRONG>/<STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> 383versions such as the HP/UX and AIX ports.</UL> 384 385The ncurses package also has many useful extensions over SVr4: 386 387<UL> 388<LI>The API is 8-bit clean and base-level conformant with the X/OPEN curses 389specification, XSI curses (that is, it implements all BASE level features, 390but not all EXTENDED features). Most EXTENDED-level features not directly 391concerned with wide-character support are implemented, including many 392function calls not supported under SVr4 curses (but portability of all 393calls is documented so you can use the SVr4 subset only). 394<LI>Unlike SVr3 curses, ncurses can write to the rightmost-bottommost corner 395of the screen if your terminal has an insert-character capability. 396<LI>Ada95 and C++ bindings. 397<LI>Support for mouse event reporting with X Window xterm and OS/2 console windows. 398<LI>Extended mouse support via Alessandro Rubini's gpm package. 399<LI>The function <CODE>wresize()</CODE> allows you to resize windows, preserving 400their data. 401<LI>The function <CODE>use_default_colors()</CODE> allows you to 402use the terminal's default colors for the default color pair, 403achieving the effect of transparent colors. 404<LI>The functions <CODE>keyok()</CODE> 405and <CODE>define_key()</CODE> allow 406you to better control the use of function keys, 407e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE, 408or by defining more than one control sequence to map to a given key code. 409<LI>Support for 16-color terminals, such as aixterm and XFree86 xterm. 410<LI>Better cursor-movement optimization. The package now features a 411cursor-local-movement computation more efficient than either BSD's 412or System V's. 413<LI>Super hardware scrolling support. The screen-update code incorporates 414a novel, simple, and cheap algorithm that enables it to make optimal 415use of hardware scrolling, line-insertion, and line-deletion 416for screen-line movements. This algorithm is more powerful than 417the 4.4BSD curses quickch() routine. 418<LI>Real support for terminals with the magic-cookie glitch. The 419screen-update code will refrain from drawing a highlight if the magic- 420cookie unattributed spaces required just before the beginning and 421after the end would step on a non-space character. It will 422automatically shift highlight boundaries when doing so would make it 423possible to draw the highlight without changing the visual appearance 424of the screen. 425<LI>It is possible to generate the library with a list of pre-loaded 426fallback entries linked to it so that it can serve those terminal types even 427when no terminfo tree or termcap file is accessible (this may be useful 428for support of screen-oriented programs that must run in single-user mode). 429<LI>The tic(1)/captoinfo utility provided with ncurses has the 430ability to translate many termcaps from the XENIX, IBM and 431AT&T extension sets. 432<LI>A BSD-like tset(1) utility is provided. 433<LI>The ncurses library and utilities will automatically read terminfo 434entries from $HOME/.terminfo if it exists, and compile to that directory 435if it exists and the user has no write access to the system directory. 436This feature makes it easier for users to have personal terminfo entries 437without giving up access to the system terminfo directory. 438<LI>You may specify a path of directories to search for compiled 439descriptions with the environment variable TERMINFO_DIRS (this 440generalizes the feature provided by TERMINFO under stock System V.) 441<LI>In terminfo source files, use capabilities may refer not just to 442other entries in the same source file (as in System V) but also to 443compiled entries in either the system terminfo directory or the user's 444$HOME/.terminfo directory. 445<LI>A script (<STRONG>capconvert</STRONG>) is provided to help BSD users 446transition from termcap to terminfo. It gathers the information in a 447TERMCAP environment variable and/or a ~/.termcap local entries file 448and converts it to an equivalent local terminfo tree under $HOME/.terminfo. 449<LI>Automatic fallback to the /etc/termcap file can be compiled in 450when it is not possible to build a terminfo tree. This feature is neither 451fast nor cheap, you don't want to use it unless you have to, 452but it's there. 453<LI>The table-of-entries utility <STRONG>toe</STRONG> makes it easy for users to 454see exactly what terminal types are available on the system. 455<LI>The library meets the XSI requirement that every macro entry 456point have a corresponding function which may be linked (and will be 457prototype-checked) if the macro definition is disabled with 458<CODE>#undef</CODE>. 459<LI>An HTML "Introduction to Programming with NCURSES" document provides 460a narrative introduction to the curses programming interface. 461</UL> 462 463<H1>State of the Package</H1> 464 465Numerous bugs present in earlier versions have been fixed; the 466library is far more reliable than it used to be. Bounds checking in many 467`dangerous' entry points has been improved. The code is now type-safe 468according to gcc -Wall. The library has been checked for malloc leaks and 469arena corruption by the Purify memory-allocation tester.<P> 470 471The ncurses code has been tested with a wide variety of applications 472including (versions starting with those noted): 473<DL> 474<DT> cdk 475<DD> Curses Development Kit 476<br> 477<A HREF="http://www.vexus.ca/CDK.html">http://www.vexus.ca/CDK.html</a> 478<br> 479<A HREF="http://dickey.his.com/cdk/cdk.html">http://dickey.his.com/cdk</A>. 480<DT> ded 481<DD> directory-editor 482<br> 483<A HREF="http://dickey.his.com/ded/ded.html">http://dickey.his.com/ded</A>. 484<DT> dialog 485<DD> the underlying application used in Slackware's setup, and the basis 486for similar applications on GNU/Linux. 487<br> 488<A HREF="http://dickey.his.com/dialog/dialog.html">http://dickey.his.com/dialog</A>. 489<DT> lynx 490<DD> the character-screen WWW browser 491<br> 492<A HREF="http://lynx.isc.org/release/">http://lynx.isc.org/release</A>. 493<DT> Midnight Commander 4.1 494<DD> file manager 495<br> 496<A HREF="www.gnome.org/mc/">www.gnome.org/mc/</A>. 497<DT> mutt 498<DD> mail utility 499<br> 500<A HREF="http://www.mutt.org">http://www.mutt.org</A>. 501<DT> ncftp 502<DD> file-transfer utility 503<br> 504<A HREF="http://www.ncftp.com">http://www.ncftp.com</A>. 505<DT> nvi 506<DD> New vi versions 1.50 are able to use ncurses versions 1.9.7 and later. 507<br> 508<A HREF="http://www.bostic.com/vi/">http://www.bostic.com/vi/</A>. 509<DT> tin 510<DD> newsreader, supporting color, MIME 511<br> 512<A HREF="http://www.tin.org">http://www.tin.org</A>. 513<DT> taper 514<DD> tape archive utility 515<br> 516<A HREF="http://members.iinet.net.au/~yusuf/taper/">http://members.iinet.net.au/~yusuf/taper/</A>. 517<DT> vh-1.6 518<DD> Volks-Hypertext browser for the Jargon File 519<br> 520<A HREF="http://www.bg.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/vh.html">http://www.bg.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/vh.html</A>. 521</DL> 522as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support alone: 523<DL> 524<DT> minicom 525<DD> terminal emulator 526<br> 527<A HREF="http://www.pp.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html">http://www.pp.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html</A>. 528<DT> vile 529<DD> vi-like-emacs 530<br> 531<A HREF="http://dickey.his.com/vile/vile.html">http://dickey.his.com/vile</A>. 532</DL> 533<P> 534 535The ncurses distribution includes a selection of test programs (including 536a few games). 537 538<H2>Who's Who and What's What</H2> 539 540The original developers of ncurses are <A 541HREF="mailto:zmbenhal@netcom.com">Zeyd Ben-Halim</A> and 542<A HREF="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html">Eric S. Raymond</A>. 543Ongoing work is being done by 544<A HREF="mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com">Thomas Dickey</A> 545and 546<A HREF="mailto:juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net">Jürgen Pfeifer</A>. 547<A HREF="mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com">Thomas Dickey</A> 548acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, which holds the 549copyright on ncurses. 550Contact the current maintainers at 551<A HREF="mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org">bug-ncurses@gnu.org</A>. 552<P> 553 554To join the ncurses mailing list, please write email to 555<CODE>bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org</CODE> containing the line: 556<PRE> 557 subscribe <name>@<host.domain> 558</PRE> 559 560This list is open to anyone interested in helping with the development and 561testing of this package.<P> 562 563Beta versions of ncurses and patches to the current release are made available at 564<A HREF="ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses">ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses</A>. 565 566<H2>Future Plans</H2> 567<UL> 568<LI>Extended-level XPG4 conformance, with internationalization support. 569<LI>Ports to more systems, including DOS and Windows. 570</UL> 571We need people to help with these projects. If you are interested in working 572on them, please join the ncurses list. 573 574<H2>Other Related Resources</H2> 575 576The distribution includes and uses a version of the terminfo-format 577terminal description file maintained by Eric Raymond. 578<A HREF="http://earthspace.net/~esr/terminfo">http://earthspace.net/~esr/terminfo</A>.<P> 579 580You can find lots of information on terminal-related topics 581not covered in the terminfo file at 582<A HREF="http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html">Richard Shuford's 583archive</A>. 584</BODY> 585</HTML> 586<!-- 587# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS 588# Local Variables: 589# mode:html 590# case-fold-search:nil 591# fill-column:70 592# End: 593--> 594