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+PDCurses 4.0.4 - 2019 Jan 20
+=========================
+Major new feature:
+-------------------
+
+- New VT backend.  Works within an xterm or xterm-based terminal and some
+  other terminals.  Mostly works in the Linux console,  and on Win10
+  directly and on Win9x/DOS if ANSI.SYS (or NANSI or NNANSI .SYS or .COM)
+  are installed.
+
+Minor new features:
+-------------------
+
+- SDL2 variant: dimmed,  bold,  blinking,  and RGB text are handled,  as is
+  window resizing.
+
+- DOS variant: cross-compilation from GNU/Linux works with both DJGPP and
+  Watcom C/C++; and, 16-bit and 32-bit Watcom makefiles have been combined
+  into one
+
+- Many modifications (and some bug fixes) taken from William McBrine's
+  branch.  An effort has been made to narrow the gap between the forks
+  where possible.  But both forks are moving targets with different
+  design choices and priorities.
+
+- Demos improved to show version info
+
+Bug fixes
+-------------------
+- compilation warnings/errors with some compilers in some variants #53, #57, #58, #65, ...
+
+- newtest sample was broken in all widw variants #60
+
+- the paste button printed debug output #62
+
+- some corner cases (midnight crossing, atomicity of tick count reads) in
+  DOS version of napms() were not handled well
+
+PDCurses 4.0.2 - 2017 Sep 12
+=========================
+Major new features:
+-------------------
+
+- New WinGUI (Windows GUI) and SDL2 backends.
+  SDL1 is still supported, but may eventually go away.
+
+- Bold, italic, underlined, overlined, dimmed, 'strikeout', blinking text,
+  256 colors and color pairs,  and full RGB colors.
+  These are all supported in WinGUI and mostly supported in X11, SDL1 and SDL2.
+
+- In WinGUI, one can choose a font, and both programmatic and user resizing
+  are supported.
+  (Recompiling is necessary to change the font in X11.)
+
+- (WinGUI only) Support of SMP Unicode (points beyond 64K) and combining
+  characters.
+  This may be extended to X11 and SDL2 eventually.
+
+- Demos corrected to be buildable and testable with `ncurses`.
+
+Minor new features
+-------------------
+(note that not all of these are available on all backends)
+
+- Support for up to nine mouse buttons and wheel and tilt-wheel mice, and
+  double and triple mouse clicks
+
+- (X11, WinGUI, Win32) Extended range of keys that are recognized. This
+  now includes most of the "oddball" keys such as 'browser back' and
+  'favorites' found on some keyboards.
+
+- Blinking cursors in WinGUI and X11 of various shapes (this could be
+  extended to SDLx eventually).
+
+- In X11 and WinGUI, one can call resize_term( ) before initscr( ) to set
+  the initial window size.
+
+- Soft Label Keys (SLKs) are considerably more flexible,  with the ability
+  to set arbitrary numbers of keys and groupings.
+  See slk.c for details. This applies to all backends.
+
+- Many changes to `testcurs` to test all these new features, and `newtest`
+  added to test still more features.
+
+- Option to get detailed version information of the used PDCurses library
+  at run time with new exported `PDC_version` as `PDC_version_info` structure.
+
+- ACS_x and WACS_x #defines extended to include a lot of "alternative
+  characters" that overlap in Unicode and CP-437:  double-line box chars,
+  card suits,  vulgar fractions,  etc.
+  This applies to all backends.  See `acs_defs.h` for the full list.
+
+- Cleaned up some makefiles for Win32 and WinGUI.
+  On both platforms, `vcwin32.mak` can now be used with the Intel(R) compiler,
+  and `mingwin32.mak` can be used to cross-compile from Linux, or in
+  `command.com` under Windows, or with Cygwin/MSYS.
+  Also added a makefile for Digital Mars for the DOS version.
+
+- The "def" files that were needed before to create PDCurses on Windows
+  are removed as they are no longer necessary.
+
+PDCurses 3.4 - 2008/09/08
+=========================
+
+Nothing much new this time, but I've been sitting on some bug fixes for
+almost a year, so it's overdue. Apart from bugs, the main changes are in
+the documentation.
+
+New features:
+-------------------
+
+- setsyx() is now a function rather than a macro.
+
+Bug fixes and such:
+-------------------
+
+- In x11, the xc_atrtab table size was under-calculated by half,
+  resulting in crashes at (oddly) certain line counts. (It should've
+  crashed a lot more.) Reported by Mark Hessling.
+
+- Test for moved cursor was omitting the window origin offset. Reported
+  by Carey Evans.
+
+- Is DOS and OS/2, the value for max items in key_table was still wrong.
+  Reported by C.E.
+
+- Changed isendwin() so it won't crash after delscreen().
+
+- Ensure zero-termination in PDC_mbstowcs() and PDC_wcstombs().
+
+- Disable QuickEdit Mode when enabling mouse input for the Win32
+  console; reported by "Zalapkrakna".
+
+- Fix for building under Innotek C (I hope). Report by Elbert Pol, fix
+  courtesy of Paul Smedley.
+
+- Unified exports list with no duplicates -- pdcurses.def is now built
+  from components at compile time.
+
+- Don't install curspriv.h, and don't include it with binary
+  distributions.
+
+- Building DLLs with LCC is no longer supported, due to the primitive
+  nature of its make.exe.
+
+- Export the terminfo stub functions from the DLLs, too.
+
+- Added support for Apple's ".dylib" in configure. Suggested by Marc
+  Vaillant (who says it's needed with OS 10.5.)
+
+- In sdl1/Makefile.mng, ensure that CC is set.
+
+- In the gcc makefiles, "$?" didn't really have the desired effect --
+  _all_ the dependencies showed up on the command line, including
+  curses.h, and pdcurses.a twice.  And apparently, this can mess up some
+  old version (?) of MinGW. So, revert to spelling out "tuidemo.o
+  tui.o". Reported by "Howard L."
+
+- Extensive documentation revision and reorganizing. More to do here.
+  For example, I moved the build instructions from INSTALL (which never
+  really described installation) to the platform-specific READMEs.
+
+- New indentation standard: four spaces, no tabs.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 3.3 - 2007/07/11
+=========================
+
+This release adds an SDL backend, refines the demos, and is faster in
+some cases.
+
+New features:
+-------------------
+
+- SDL port. See INSTALL, doc/sdl.txt and sdl1/* for details.
+
+- Double-buffering -- minimize screen writes by checking, in doupdate()
+  and wnoutrefresh(), whether the changes to curscr are really changes.
+  In most cases, this makes no difference (writes were already limited
+  to areas marked as changed), but it can greatly reduce the overhead
+  from touchwin(). It also helps if you have small, separated updates on
+  the same line.
+
+- The PDC_RGB colors can now be used, or not, with any platform (as long
+  as the same options are used when compiling both the library and
+  apps). This may help if you have apps that are hardwired to assume
+  certain definitions.
+
+- Restored the use_default_colors() stuff from the ncurses versions of
+  the rain and worm demos, to make them "transparent" (this is useful
+  now, with the SDL port); added transparency to newdemo.
+
+- Added setlocale() to tuidemo, to make it easier to browse files with
+  non-ASCII characters.
+
+- Sped up firework demo by replacing unneeded clear() and init_pair()
+  calls.
+
+- Allow exit from ptest demo by typing 'q'.
+
+- New functions for implementors: PDC_pair_content() and PDC_init_pair()
+  (the old pdc_atrtab stuff was arguably the last remnant of code in the
+  pdcurses directory that was based on platform details).
+
+Bug fixes and such:
+-------------------
+
+- Implicit wrefresh() needs to be called from wgetch() when the window's
+  cursor position is changed, even if there are no other changes.
+
+- Set SP->audible on a per-platform basis, as was documented in
+  IMPLEMNT, but not actually being done.
+
+- Minor tweaks for efficiency and readability, notably with wscrl().
+
+- tuidemo didn't work correctly on monochrome screens when A_COLOR was
+  defined -- the color pair numbers appeared as the corresponding
+  character; also, the input box was (I now realize) broken with ncurses
+  since our 2.7, and broke more subtly with PDCurses' new implicit
+  refresh handling; also, the path to the default file for the Browse
+  function was a bit off.
+
+- Assume in the demos that curs_set() is always available -- there's no
+  good test for this, and the existing tests were bogus.
+
+- Made the command-line parameter for ptest work. (If given an argument,
+  it delays that number of milliseconds between changes, instead of
+  waiting for a key, and automatically loops five times.)
+
+- Building the Win32 DLL with MinGW or Cygwin wouldn't work from outside
+  the platform directory.
+
+- Building the X11 port with Cygwin required manually editing the
+  Makefile after configuring; no longer. Reported by Warren W. Gay.
+
+- Minor tightening of configure and makefiles.
+
+- Bogus references to "ACS_BLCORNER" in the border man page. Reported by
+  "Walrii".
+
+- slk_wlabel() was not documented.
+
+- Spelling cleanup.
+
+- Changed RCSIDs to not end with a semicolon -- avoids warnings when
+  compiling with the -pedantic option.
+
+- Merged latin-1.txt into x11.txt.
+
+- Updated config.guess and config.sub to more recent versions.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 3.2 - 2007/06/06
+=========================
+
+This release mainly covers changes to the build process, along with a
+few structural changes.
+
+New features:
+-------------------
+
+- The panel library has been folded into the main library. What this
+  means is that you no longer need to specify "-lpanel" or equivalent
+  when linking programs that use panel functionality with PDCurses;
+  however, panel.lib/.a is still provided (as a copy of pdcurses.lib/.a)
+  so that you can, optionally, build your projects with no changes. It
+  also means that panel functionality is available with the DLL or
+  shared library. Note that panel.h remains separate from curses.h.
+
+- Setting the PDCURSES_SRCDIR environment variable is no longer required
+  before building, unless you want to build in a location other than the
+  platform directory. (See INSTALL.)
+
+- MinGW and Cygwin makefiles support building DLLs, via the "DLL=Y"
+  option. Partly due to Timofei Shatrov.
+
+- Support for the Digital Mars compiler.
+
+- Watcom makefiles now use the "loaddll" feature.
+
+Bug fixes and such:
+-------------------
+
+- Eliminated the platform defines (DOS, WIN32, OS2, XCURSES) from
+  curses.h, except for X11-specific SCREEN elements and functions.
+  Dynamically-linked X11 apps built against an old version will have
+  their red and blue swapped until rebuilt. (You can define PDC_RGB to
+  build the library with the old color scheme, but it would also have to
+  be defined when building any new app.) Any app that depends on
+  PDCurses to determine the platform it's building on will have to make
+  other arrangements.
+
+- Documentation cleanup -- added more details; removed some content that
+  didn't apply to PDCurses; moved the doc-building tool to the doc
+  directory; changed *.man to *.txt.
+
+- The EMX makefile now accepts "DLL=Y", builds pdcurses.dll instead of
+  curses.dll, builds either the static library or the DLL (not both at
+  once), and links all the demos with the DLL when building it.
+
+- In Win32, read the registry only when needed: when init_color() or
+  color_content() is called, instead of at startup.
+
+- A few additional consts in declarations.
+
+- The Win32 compilers that build DLLs now use common .def files.
+
+- panel.h functions sorted by name, as with other .h files; curses.h is
+  no longer included by repeated inclusions of panel.h or term.h.
+
+- Simplified Borland makefiles.
+
+- Makefile.aix.in depended on a file, xcurses.exp, that was never there.
+  This problem was fixed as part of the change to common .def files;
+  however, I still haven't been able to test building on AIX.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 3.1 - 2007/05/03
+=========================
+
+Primarily clipboard-related fixes, and special UTF-8 support.
+
+New features:
+-------------------
+
+- "Force UTF-8" mode, a compile-time option to force the use of UTF-8
+  for multibyte strings, instead of the system locale. (Mainly for
+  Windows, where UTF-8 doesn't work well in the console.) See INSTALL.
+
+- Multibyte string support in PDC_*clipboard() functions, and in Win32's
+  PDC_set_title().
+
+- Added the global string "ttytype", per other curses implementations,
+  for compatibility with old BSD curses.
+
+- Real functions for the "quasi-standard aliases" -- crmode(),
+  nocrmode(), draino(), resetterm(), fixterm() and saveterm().
+  (Corresponding macros removed.)
+
+Bug fixes and such:
+-------------------
+
+- In Win32, under NT-family OSes, the scrollback buffer would be
+  restored by endwin(), but would not be turned off again when resuming
+  curses after an endwin(). The result was an odd, partly-scrolled-up
+  display. Now, the buffer is toggled by PDC_reset_prog_mode() and
+  PDC_reset_shell_mode(), so it's properly turned off when returning
+  from an endwin().
+
+- In 3.0, selection in X11 didn't work. (Well, the selecting worked, but
+  the pasting elsewhere didn't.) This was due to the attempted fix
+  "don't return selection start as a press event," so that's been
+  reverted for now.
+
+- PDC_setclipboard() was locking up in X11. Reported by Mark Hessling.
+
+- Missing underscore in the declaration of XC_say() prevented
+  compilation with PDCDEBUG defined.  Reported by M.H.
+
+- Off-by-one error in copywin() -- the maximum coordinates for the
+  destination window should be inclusive. Reported by Tiago Dionizio.
+
+- Start in echo mode, per X/Open. Reported by T.D.
+
+- Strip leading and trailing spaces from slk labels, per a literal
+  reading of X/Open. Suggested by Alexey Miheev (about ncurses, but it
+  also applies here).
+
+- The #endif for __PDCURSES__ needs to come _after_ the closing of the
+  extern "C". This has been broken since June 2005. Fortunately (?), it
+  only shows up if the file is included multiple times, and then only in
+  C++. Reported on the DOSBox forums.
+
+- Use CF_OEMTEXT instead of CF_TEXT in the narrow versions of the
+  clipboard functions in Win32, to match the console.
+
+- Changed the format of the string returned from longname().
+
+- In the clipboard test in the testcurs demo, use a single mvprintw() to
+  display the return from PDC_getclipboard(), instead of a loop of
+  addch(), which was incompatible with multibyte strings.
+
+- Moved has_key() into the keyname module, and documented it.
+
+- Moved RIPPEDOFFLINE to curspriv.h.
+
+- Typos in IMPLEMNT.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 3.0 - 2007/04/01
+=========================
+
+The focuses for this release are X/Open conformance, i18n, better color
+support, cleaner code, and more consistency across platforms.
+
+This is only a brief summary of the changes. For more details, consult
+the CVS log.
+
+New features:
+-------------------
+
+- An almost complete implementation of X/Open curses, including the
+  wide-character and attr_t functions (but excluding terminfo). The
+  wide-character functions work only in Win32 and X11, for now, and
+  require building the library with the appropriate options (see
+  INSTALL). Note that this is a simplistic implementation, with exactly
+  one wchar_t per cchar_t; the only characters it handles properly are
+  those that are one column wide.
+
+- Support for X Input Methods in the X11 port (see INSTALL). When built
+  this way, the internal compose key support is disabled in favor of
+  XIM's, which is a lot more complete, although you lose the box cursor.
+
+- Multibyte character support in the non-wide string handling functions,
+  per X/Open. This only works when the library is built with wide-
+  character support enabled.
+
+- Mouse support for DOS and OS/2. The DOS version includes untested
+  support for scroll wheels, via the "CuteMouse" driver.
+
+- An ncurses-compatible mouse interface, which can work in parallel with
+  the traditional PDCurses mouse interface. See the man page (or
+  mouse.c) for details.
+
+- DOS and OS/2 can now return modifiers as keys, as in Win32 and X11.
+
+- COLORS, which had been fixed at 8, is now either 8 or 16, depending on
+  the terminal -- usually 16. When it's 8, blinking mode is enabled
+  (controlled as before by the A_BLINK attribute); when it's 16, bright
+  background colors are used instead. On platforms where it can be
+  changed, the mode is toggled by the new function PDC_set_blink().
+  PDCurses tries to set PDC_set_blink(FALSE) at startup. (In Win32, it's
+  always set to FALSE; in DOS, with other than an EGA or VGA card, it
+  can't be.) Also, COLORS is now set to 0 until start_color() is called.
+
+- Corresponding to the change in COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS is now 256.
+
+- Working init_color() and color_content(). The OS/2 version of
+  init_color() works only in a full-screen session; the Win32 version
+  works only in windowed mode, and only in NT-family OSes; the DOS
+  version works only with VGA adapters (real or simulated). The Win32
+  version is based mostly on James Brown's setconsoleinfo.c
+  (www.catch22.net).
+
+- use_default_colors(), assume_default_colors(), and curses_version(),
+  after ncurses.
+
+- Added global int TABSIZE, after ncurses and Solaris curses; removed
+  window-specific _tabsize.
+
+- Logical extension to the wide-character slk_ funcs: slk_wlabel(), for
+  retrieving the label as a wide-character string.
+
+- A non-macro implementation of ncurses' wresize().
+
+- Working putwin(), getwin(), scr_dump() and scr_restore().
+
+- A working acs_map[]. Characters from the ACS are now stored in window
+  structures as a regular character plus the A_ALTCHARSET attribute, and
+  rendered to the ACS only when displayed. (This allows, for example,
+  the correct display on one platform of windows saved from another.)
+
+- In X11, allow selection and paste of UTF8_STRING.
+
+- The testcurs demo now includes a color chart and init_color() test, a
+  wide character input test, a display of wide ACS characters with
+  sample Unicode text, a specific test of flash(), more info in the
+  resize test, and attempts to change the width as well as the height.
+
+- Command-line option for MSVC to build DLLs (see INSTALL). Also, the
+  naming distinction for DLLs ("curses" vs. "pdcurses") is abandoned,
+  and either the static lib or DLL is built, not both at once (except
+  for X11).
+
+- For backwards compatibility, a special module just for deprecated
+  functions -- currently PDC_check_bios_key(), PDC_get_bios_key(),
+  PDC_get_ctrl_break() and PDC_set_ctrl_break(). These shouldn't be used
+  in applications, but currently are... in fact, all the "private"
+  functions (in curspriv.h) are subject to change and should be avoided.
+
+- A new document, IMPLEMNT, describing PDCurses' internal functions for
+  those wishing to port it to new platforms.
+
+- Mark Hessling has released the X11 port to the public domain.
+  (However, x11/ScrollBox* retain their separate copyright and MIT-like
+  license.)
+
+Bug fixes and such:
+-------------------
+
+- Most of the macros have been removed (along with the NOMACROS ifdef).
+  The only remaining ones are those which have to be macros to work, and
+  those that are required by X/Open to be macros. There were numerous
+  problems with the macros, and no apparent reason to keep them, except
+  tradition -- although it was PCcurses 1.x that first omitted them.
+
+- Clean separation of platform-specific code from the rest. Outside of
+  the platform directories, there remain only a few ifdefs in curses.h
+  and curspriv.h.
+
+- General reorganization and simplification.
+
+- Documentation revisions.
+
+- When expanding control characters in addch() or insch(), retain the
+  attributes from the chtype.
+
+- Preserve the A_ALTCHARSET attribute in addch() and insch().
+
+- Per X/Open, beep() should always return OK.
+
+- On platforms with a controlling terminal (i.e., not X11), curs_set(1)
+  now sets the cursor to the shape it had at the time of initscr(),
+  rather than always making it small. (Exception for DOS: If the video
+  mode has been changed by PDC_resize_screen(), curs_set(1) reverts to
+  line 6/7.) The shape is taken from SP->orig_cursor (the meaning of
+  which is platform-specific).
+
+- Stop updating the cursor position when the cursor is invisible (this
+  gives a huge performance boost in Win 9x); update the cursor position
+  from curs_set() if changing from invisible to visible.
+
+- Some tweaking of the behavior of def_prog_mode(), def_shell_mode(),
+  savetty(), reset_prog_mode(), reset_shell_mode() and resetty()...
+  still not quite right.
+
+- flash() was not implemented for Win32 or X. A portable implementation
+  is now used for all platforms. Note that it's much slower than the
+  old (DOS and OS/2) version, but this is only apparent on an extremely
+  slow machine, such as an XT.
+
+- In getstr(), backspacing on high-bit characters caused a double
+  backspace.
+
+- hline() and vline() used an incorrect (off by one) interpretation of
+  _maxx and _maxy. If values of n greater than the max were specified,
+  these functions could access unallocated memory.
+
+- innstr() is supposed to return the number of characters read, not just
+  OK or ERR. Reported by Mike Aubury.
+
+- A proper implementation of insch() -- the PDC_chadd()-based version
+  wasn't handling the control characters correctly.
+
+- Return ASCII and control key names from keyname() (problem revealed by
+  ncurses' movewindow test); also, per X/Open, return "UNKNOWN KEY" when
+  appropriate, rather than "NO KEY NAME".
+
+- Turn off the cursor from leaveok(TRUE), even in X11; leaveok(FALSE)
+  now calls curs_set(1), regardless of the previous state of the cursor.
+
+- In the slk area, BUTTON_CLICKED events now translate to function keys,
+  along with the previously recognized BUTTON_PRESSED events. Of course,
+  it should really be checking the events specified by map_button(),
+  which still doesn't work.
+
+- napms(0) now returns immediately.
+
+- A unified napms() implementation for DOS -- no longer throttles the
+  CPU when built with any compiler.
+
+- Allow backspace editing of the nocbreak() buffer.
+
+- pair_content(0, ...) is valid.
+
+- There was no check to ensure that the pnoutrefresh() window fit within
+  the screen. It now returns an ERR if it doesn't.
+
+- In X11, resize_term() must be called with parameters (0, 0), and only
+  when SP->resized is set, else it returns ERR.
+
+- Copy _bkgd in resize_window(). Patch found on Frederic L. W. Meunier's
+  web site.
+
+- slk_clear() now removes the buttons completely, as in ncurses.
+
+- Use the current foreground color for the line attributes (underline,
+  left, right), unless PDC_set_line_color() is explicitly called. After
+  setting the line color, you can reset it to this mode via
+  "PDC_set_line_color(-1)".
+
+- Removed non-macro implementations of COLOR_PAIR() and PAIR_NUMBER().
+
+- Dispensed with PDC_chadd() and PDC_chins() -- waddch() and winsch()
+  are now (again) the core functions.
+
+- Dropped or made static many obsolete, unused, and/or broken functions,
+  including PDC_chg_attrs(), PDC_cursor_on() and _off(),
+  PDC_fix_cursor(), PDC_get_attribute(), PDC_get_cur_col() and _row(),
+  PDC_set_80x25(), PDC_set_cursor_mode(), PDC_set_rows(),
+  PDC_wunderline(), PDC_wleftline(), PDC_wrightline(),
+  XCursesModifierPress() and XCurses_refresh_scrollbar().
+
+- Obsolete/unused defines: _BCHAR, _GOCHAR, _STOPCHAR, _PRINTCHAR
+  _ENDLINE, _FULLWIN and _SCROLLWIN.
+
+- Obsolete/unused elements of the WINDOW struct: _pmax*, _lastp*,
+  _lasts*.
+
+- Obsolete/unused elements of the SCREEN struct: orgcbr, visible_cursor,
+  sizeable, shell, blank, cursor, orig_emulation, font, orig_font,
+  tahead, adapter, scrnmode, kbdinfo, direct_video, video_page,
+  video_seg, video_ofs, bogus_adapter. (Some of these persist outside
+  the SCREEN struct, in the platform directories.) Added mouse_wait and
+  key_code.
+
+- Removed all the EMALLOC stuff. Straight malloc calls were used
+  elsewhere; it was undocumented outside of comments in curspriv.h; and
+  there are better ways to use a substitute malloc().
+
+- Single mouse clicks are now reportable on all platforms (not just
+  double-clicks). And in general, mouse event reporting is more
+  consistent across platforms.
+
+- The mouse cursor no longer appears in full-screen mode in Win32 unless
+  a nonzero mouse event mask is used.
+
+- ALT-keypad input now works in Win32.
+
+- In Win32, SetConsoleMode(ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT) is not useful, and
+  appears to be the source of a four-year-old bug report (hanging in
+  THE) by Phil Smith.
+
+- Removed the PDC_THREAD_BUILD stuff, which has never worked. For the
+  record: PDCurses is not thread-safe. Neither is ncurses; and the
+  X/Open curses spec explicitly makes it a non-requirement.
+
+- With the internal compose key system in the X11 port, modifier keys
+  were breaking out of the compose state, making it impossible to type
+  accented capitals, etc. Also, Multi_key is now the default compose
+  key, instead of leaving it undefined by default; and a few more combos
+  are supported.
+
+- In X11, the first reported mouse event after startup always read as a
+  double-click at position 0, 0. (This bug was introduced in 2.8.)
+
+- In X11, don't return selection start as a press event. (Shift-click on
+  button 1 is still returned.)
+
+- In X11, properly handle pasting of high-bit chars. (It was doing an
+  unwanted sign extension.)
+
+- In X11, BUTTON_MOVED was never returned, although PDC_MOUSE_MOVED was
+  set.
+
+- The fix in 2.8 for the scroll wheel in X11 wasn't very good -- it did
+  report the events as scroll wheel events, but it doubled them. Here's
+  a proper fix.
+
+- Changed mouse handling in X11: Simpler translation table, with
+  XCursesPasteSelection() called from XCursesButton() instead of the
+  translation table; require shift with button 1 or 2 for select or
+  paste when mouse events are being reported (as with ncurses), allowing
+  passthrough of simple button 2 events. This fixes the previously
+  unreliable button 2 behavior.
+
+- Modifier keys are now returned on key up in X11, as in Win32. And in
+  general, modifier key reporting is more consistent across platforms.
+
+- Modifiers are not returned as keys when a mouse click has occurred
+  since the key press.
+
+- In BIOS mode (in DOS), count successive identical output bytes, and
+  make only one BIOS call for all of them. This dramatically improves
+  performance.
+
+- The cursor position was not always updated correctly in BIOS mode.
+
+- In testcurs, the way the ACS test was written, it would really only
+  work with a) PDCurses (with any compiler), or b) gcc (with any
+  curses). Here's a more portable implementation.
+
+- Better reporting of mouse events in testcurs.
+
+- Blank out buffer and num before the scanw() test in testcurs, in case
+  the user just hits enter or etc.; clear the screen after resizing.
+
+- Allow tuidemo to use the last line.
+
+- Separate left/right modifier keys are now reported properly in Win32.
+  (Everything was being reported as _R.)
+
+- Attempts to redirect input in Win32 now cause program exit and an
+  error message, instead of hanging.
+
+- Dropped support for the Microway NDP compiler.
+
+- Some modules renamed, rearranged.
+
+- Fixes for errors and warnings when building with Visual C++ 2005.
+
+- In MSVC, the panel library didn't work with the DLL.
+
+- Complete export lists for DLLs.
+
+- Simplified makefiles; moved common elements to .mif files; better
+  optimization; strip demos when possible.
+
+- Changed makefile targets of "pdcurses.a/lib" and "panel.a/lib" to
+  $(LIBCURSES) and $(LIBPANEL). Suggestion of Doug Kaufman.
+
+- Changed "install" target in the makefile to a double-colon rule, to
+  get around a conflict with INSTALL on non-case-sensitive filesystems,
+  such as Mac OS X's HFS+. Reported by Douglas Godfrey et al.
+
+- Make PDCurses.man dependent on manext. Suggestion of Tiziano Mueller.
+
+- Set up configure.ac so autoheader works; removed some obsolescent
+  macros. Partly the suggestion of T.M.
+
+- The X11 port now builds in the x11 directory (including the demos), as
+  with other ports.
+
+- The X11 port should now build on more 64-bit systems. Partly due to
+  M.H.
+
+- The default window title and icons for the X11 port are now "PDCurses"
+  instead of "XCurses".
+
+- Internal functions and variables made static where possible.
+
+- Adopted a somewhat more consistent naming style: Internal functions
+  with external linkage, and only those, have the prefix "PDC_";
+  external variables that aren't part of the API use "pdc_"; static
+  functions use "_"; and "XC_" and "xc_" prefixes are used for functions
+  and variables, respectively, that are shared between both processes in
+  the X11 port. Also eliminated camel casing, where possible.
+
+- Changed the encoding for non-ASCII characters in comments and
+  documentation from Latin-1 to UTF-8.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.8 - 2006/04/01
+=========================
+
+As with the previous version, you should assume that apps linked against
+older dynamic versions of the library won't work with this one until
+recompiled.
+
+New features:
+
+- Simpler, faster.
+
+- Declarations for all supported, standard functions, per the X/Open
+  Curses 4.2 spec, with the notable exception of getch() and ungetch().
+  You can disable the use of the macro versions by defining NOMACROS
+  before including curses.h (see xmas.c for an example). NOMACROS yields
+  smaller but theoretically slower executables.
+
+- New functions: vwprintw(), vwscanw(), vw_printw() and vw_scanw(). This
+  completes the list of X/Open 4.2 functions, except for those concerned
+  with attr_t and wide characters. Some (especially the terminfo/termcap
+  functions) aren't yet fully fleshed out, though.
+
+- Non-macro implementations for COLOR_PAIR(), PAIR_NUMBER(), getbkgd(),
+  mvgetnstr(), mvwgetnstr(), mvhline(), mvvline(), mvwhline(), and
+  mvwvline(). (The macros are still available, too.)
+
+- newterm() works now, in a limited way -- the parameters are ignored,
+  and only the first invocation will work (i.e., only one SCREEN can be
+  used).
+
+- start_color() works now -- which is to say, if you _don't_ call it,
+  you'll only get monochrome output. Also, without calling it, the
+  terminal's default colors will be used, where supported (currently
+  only in Win32). This is equivalent to the PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS behavior
+  introduced in 2.7, except that _only_ the default colors will be used.
+  (PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS is still available, if you want to combine the
+  use of specific colors and the default colors.)
+
+- New logic for termname() and longname(): termname() always returns
+  "pdcurses"; longname() returns "PDCurses for [platform] [adapter]
+  [COLOR/MONO]-YxX" (adapter is only defined for DOS and OS/2). This is
+  the first time these functions return _anything_ in Win32.
+
+- New installation method for XCurses: the header files are placed in a
+  subdirectory "xcurses" within the include directory, rather than being
+  renamed. (But the renamed xcurses.h and xpanel.h are also installed,
+  for backwards compatibility.) curspriv.h and term.h are now available,
+  and existing curses-based code need no longer be edited to use
+  XCurses' curses.h. And with no more need for explicit XCursesExit()
+  calls (see below), your code need not be changed at all to move from
+  another curses implementation to XCurses. It can be as simple as "gcc
+  -I/usr/local/include/xcurses -lXCurses -oprogname progname.c".
+
+- Combined readme.* into this HISTORY file, and incorporated the old 1.x
+  (PCcurses) history.
+
+- New functionality for the testcurs demo: ACS character display; menu
+  support for PgUp, PgDn, Home and End; centered menu; and it can now
+  be resized in X.
+
+- Added modified versions of the rain and worm demos from ncurses.
+
+Bug fixes and such:
+
+- Big cleanup of dead and redundant code, including unneeded defines,
+  ifdefs, and structure elements.
+
+- flushinp() was not implemented for Win32.
+
+- resetty() was not restoring LINES and COLS.
+
+- nonl() made '\n' print a line feed without carriage return. This was
+  incorrect.
+
+- Removed bogus implementation of intrflush().
+
+- The line-breakout optimization system, disabled by default in 2.7, is
+  removed in 2.8. It simply didn't work, and never has. (The typeahead()
+  function remains, for compatibility, but does nothing.)
+
+- The declarations for the printw() and scanw() function families were
+  erroneously ifdef'd.
+
+- Safer printw() calls on platforms that support vsnprintf().
+
+- Use the native vsscanf() in DJGPP, MinGW and Cygwin.
+
+- ACS_BLOCK now works in X.
+
+- Explicit calls to XCursesExit() are no longer needed.
+
+- XCURSES is now defined automatically if not DOS, OS2 or WIN32.
+
+- The default icon for XCurses wasn't working (had to remove the focus
+  hint code to fix this). Also, the default title is now "XCurses"
+  instead of "main".
+
+- Incorrect dimensions (undercounting by two in each direction) were
+  shown while resizing in X.
+
+- Scroll wheel events were not always correctly reported in X.
+
+- 32 bits are enough for the "long" chtype, but 64 bits were used on a
+  64-bit system, wasting memory. Now conditioned on _LP64. This could be
+  faster, too.
+
+- The short, 16-bit chtype now works with XCurses.
+
+- Corrected return value for is_linetouched(), is_wintouched(),
+  can_change_color() and isendwin() (bool instead of int).
+
+- timeout(), wtimeout(), idcok() and immedok() return void.
+
+- pair_content() takes a short.
+
+- Replaced incorrect usages of attr_t with chtype. attr_t is still
+  typedef'd, for backwards compatibility. (It's supposed to be used for
+  the WA_*-style functions, which PDCurses doesn't yet support.)
+
+- Added const where required by the spec, and in other appropriate
+  places.
+
+- Removed PDC_usleep(). napms() is now the core delay routine.
+
+- Fixed poll() support in napms().
+
+- Various changes to the internal PDC_* functions -- don't depend on
+  these, and don't use them unless you absolutely have to.
+
+- Some routines accessed window structures in their variable
+  declarations, _before_ checking for a NULL window pointer.
+
+- Dropped support for the undocumented PDC_FULL_DISPLAY, wtitle(), and
+  PDC_print().
+
+- Cleaned up remaining warnings.
+
+- Reduced unnecessary #include directives -- speeds up compilation.
+
+- Fix for demos build in Borland/DOS -- the makefile in 2.7 didn't
+  specify the memory model. Reported by Erwin Waterlander.
+
+- Simplified the makefiles; e.g., some now build each demo in a single
+  step, and Watcom no longer uses demos.lnk. Also, the demo exes are now
+  stripped when possible; maximum compression used for archives built
+  by the makefiles; xcurses-config removed as part of "make distclean";
+  and I tweaked optimization for some platforms.
+
+- Reverted to /usr/local/ as default installation directory for XCurses.
+
+- Upgraded to autoconf 2.59... instantly doubling the size of the
+  configure script. Ah well. Otherwise, simplified the build system.
+
+- Dropped support for pre-ANSI compilers. (It hasn't worked since at
+  least version 2.4, anyway.)
+
+- Revised and, I hope, clarified the boilerplate and other comments.
+
+- Simplified logging and RCS ids; added RCS ids where missing.
+
+- Consistent formatting for all code, approximately equivalent to
+  "indent -kr -i8 -bl -bli0", with adjustments for 80 columns.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.7 - 2005/12/30
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+Hello all. As of a few weeks ago, I'm the new maintainer for PDCurses.
+Here's a brief summary of changes in this release. (More details are
+available in the CVS log and trackers on SourceForge.)
+
+NEW FEATURES:
+
+- Functions: delscreen(), getattrs(), has_key(), slk_color(),
+  wcolor_set(), wtimeout().
+
+- Macros: color_set(), mvhline(), mvvline(), mvwgetnstr(), mvwhline(),
+  mvwvline(), timeout(), wresize().
+
+- Stub implementations of terminfo functions (including a term.h).
+
+- More stubs for compatibility: filter(), getwin(), putwin(),
+  noqiflush(), qiflush(), scr_dump(), scr_init(), scr_restore(),
+  scr_set(), use_env(), vidattr(), vidputs().
+
+- The terminal's default colors are used as curses' default colors when
+  the environment variable "PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS" is set to any value
+  (Win32 only at the moment).
+
+- Simplified build system.
+
+- Replaced PDC_STATIC_BUILD with its opposite, PDC_DLL_BUILD (see .mak
+  files for more info).
+
+- Minimal implementation of color_content() -- no longer a stub.
+
+- Added the remaining ACS defines (ACS_S3, ACS_BBSS, etc.) for
+  DOS/OS2/Win; "enhanced" versions of existing ACS characters used.
+
+- Support for scroll wheels.
+
+- Support for Pacific C.
+
+BUGS FIXED:
+
+- Builds correctly (including demos) on all tested platforms (see
+  below); nearly all compiler warnings have been cleaned up; the ptest
+  demo is built on all platforms; "clean" targets are improved.
+
+- The ability to build ncurses_tests has been restored (see demos dir).
+
+- Line-breakout optimization now defaults to off (equivalent to
+  "typeahead(-1)"), so output is not interrupted by keystrokes (it's
+  supposed to resume on the next refresh(), which wasn't working).
+
+- Implicit wrefresh() in wgetch() was not being invoked in nodelay mode.
+
+- subpad() was erroneously offsetting from the origin coordinates of the
+  parent pad (which are always -1,-1).
+
+- In wborder(), whline(), and wvline(), the current (wattrset) attribute
+  was being used, but not the current background (wbkgd).
+
+- Allow Russian 'r' character ASCII 0xe0 to be returned.
+
+- termattrs() now also returns A_UNDERLINE, A_REVERSE.
+
+- In Win32, with large scrollback buffers set, there was an unwanted
+  "scrollup" effect on startup.
+
+- Revamped keyboard handling for Win32.
+
+- New screen resize method for Win32.
+
+- napms(), delay_output(), etc. now work with Cygwin.
+
+- curs_set(0) wasn't working in Win32 in full-screen (ALT-ENTER) mode --
+  the cursor stayed on.
+
+- The A_REVERSE attribute was broken in XCurses.
+
+- On 64-bit systems, XCurses was ignoring every other keystroke.
+
+- Added focus hints for XCurses.
+
+- Demos (except for tuidemo) once again have their proper titles in
+  XCurses (using Xinitscr() instead of the obsolete XCursesProgramName).
+
+- The 16-bit chtype is a working option again (by removing #define
+  CHTYPE_LONG from curses.h), except in XCurses. It's not recommended;
+  but if your needs are limited, it still works.
+
+- Reset screen size in resetty() under DOS, as in Win32 and OS/2.
+
+- Changes for cursor size under DOS.
+
+- Automatic setting of BIOS mode for CGA under DOS now works.
+
+- The cursor is now always updated in PDC_gotoxy(); this fixes the
+  problem of missing characters in BIOS mode.
+
+- Macros nocbreak(), cbreak(), nocrmode(), crmode(), nodelay(),
+  nl() and nonl() now return OK.
+
+- ERR and OK are now defined as -1 and 0, respectively, for
+  compatibility with other curses implementations -- note that this
+  change is not binary compatible; you'll have to rebuild programs that
+  use shared/dynamic libraries.
+
+- Added "const" to prototypes where appropriate.
+
+- Miscellaneous code cleanup.
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
+
+ - Walter Briscoe
+ - Jean-Pierre Demailly
+ - Ruslan Fedyarov
+ - Warren Gay
+ - Florian Grosse-Coosmann
+ - Vladimir Kokovic
+ - Matt Maloy
+ - K.H. Man
+ - Michael Ryazanov
+ - Ron Thibodeau
+ - Alexandr Zamaraev
+
+and of course, MARK HESSLING, for his over 13 years of service as the
+maintainer of PDCurses. Plus, thanks to all who've reported bugs or
+requested features. Apologies to anyone I've forgotten.
+
+I've tested this version on Turbo C++ 3.0 and Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS;
+DJGPP 2.X; Open Watcom 1.3 for DOS (16 and 32-bit), Windows and OS/2;
+EMX 0.9d and the "newgcc" version of EMX; Borland C++ 5.5 for Windows;
+recent versions of MinGW, Cygwin, LCC-Win32 and Microsoft Visual C++;
+and gcc under several flavors of Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD and Solaris.
+
+-- William McBrine
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.6 - 2003/01/08
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+ This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:
+
+BUGS FIXED:
+
+- Allow accented characters on Win32 platform when run on non-English
+  keyboards.
+
+- Allow "special" characters like Ctrl-S, Ctrl-Q under OS/2 to be returned.
+
+- Some bugs with halfdelay() fixed by William McBrine.
+
+- pechochar() should now work correctly.
+
+- redrawwin() macro in curses.h was incorrect - fixed by Alberto Ornaghi
+
+- Don't include "special" characters like KEY_SHIFT_L to be returned in
+  getnstr() family. Bug 542913
+
+- Entering TAB in wgetnstr() no longer exceeds requested buffer size.
+  Bug 489233
+
+- Fixed bug 550066, scrollok() and pads.
+  Also beep() called when buffer exceeded. Bug 562041.
+
+- Reverse video of X11 selection reinstated. Pablo Garcia Abio??
+
+- Right Alt modifier now works like left Alt modifier under Win32
+
+- Add support for all libXaw replacement libraries with Scrollbar bug.
+  Note that for this to work, you still have to change the libXaw
+  replacement libraries to fix the bug :-(
+
+- Don't trap signals in XCurses if calling application has ignored them.
+  Change by Frank Heckenbach.
+
+- Bug reports from Warren W. Gay:
+  - Fix termattrs() to return A_REVERSE and A_BLINK on all platforms.
+  - Fix definition of getsyx() and setsyx() to be consistent with
+    ncurses. Bug 624424.
+  - Fix definition of echo() and noecho(). Bug 625001.
+  - Fix definition of keypad() and leaveok(). Bug 632653.
+  - Missing panel_hidden() prototype. Bug 649320.
+
+- Fixed bug with calling def_prog_mode(), resize_term(),
+  reset_prog_mode(); the resize details were being lost.
+
+NEW FEATURES:
+
+- Clipboard support now available on DOS platform, but handled
+  internally to the currently running process.
+
+- New X11 resource: textCursor, allows the text cursor to be specified
+  as a vertical bar, or the standard horizontal bar. Thanks to Frank
+  Heckenbach for the suggestion.
+
+NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:
+
+- lcc-win32 now works correctly
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.5 - 2001/11/26
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+ This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:
+
+- Set BASE address for Win32 DLL
+
+- Add KEY_SUP and KEY_SDOWN.
+
+- Add PDC_set_line_color()
+
+- Add blink support as bold background
+
+- Add bold colors
+
+- Add getbkgd() macro
+
+- Add new PDC functions for adding underline, overline, leftline and
+  rightline
+
+- Add support for shifted keypad keys.
+
+- Allow more keypad keys to work under Win32
+
+- Change Win32 and OS/2 DLL name to curses.dll
+
+- Change example resources to allow overriding from the command line
+
+- Changes for building cleanly on OS/2
+
+- Changes to handle building XCurses under AIX
+
+- Check if prefresh() and pnoutrefresh() parameters are valid.
+
+- Ensure build/install works from any directory
+
+- Handle platforms where X11 headers do not typedef XPointer.
+
+- Mention that Flexos is likely out-of-date.
+
+- Pass delaytenths to XCurses_rawgetch()
+
+- Remove boldFont
+
+- Updates for cursor blinking and italic.
+
+BUGS FIXED:
+
+- Fix bug with getting Win32 clipboard contents. Added new
+  PDC_freeclipboard() function.
+
+- Fix bug with halfdelay()
+
+- Fix bug with mouse interrupting programs that are not trapping mouse
+  events under Win32.
+
+- Fix return value from curs_set()
+
+- Reverse the left and right pointing bars in ALT_CHARSET
+
+NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:
+
+- Add QNX-RTP port
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.4 - 2000/01/17
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+ This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:
+
+- full support of X11 selection handling
+
+- removed the need for the cursos2.h file
+
+- enabled the "shifted" key on the numeric keypad
+
+- added native clipboard support for X11, Win32 and OS/2
+
+- added extra functions for obtaining internal PDCurses status
+
+- added clipboard and key modifier tests in testcurs.c
+
+- fixes for panel library
+
+- key modifiers pressed by themselves are now returned as keys:
+  KEY_SHIFT_L KEY_SHIFT_R KEY_CONTROL_L KEY_CONTROL_R KEY_ALT_L KEY_ALT_R
+  This works on Win32 and X11 ports only
+
+- Added X11 shared library support
+
+- Added extra slk formats supported by ncurses
+
+- Fixed bug with resizing the terminal when slk were on.
+
+- Changed behavior of slk_attrset(), slk_attron() slk_attroff()
+  functions to work more like ncurses.
+
+BUGS FIXED:
+
+- some minor bug and portability fixes were included in this release
+
+NEW FUNCTIONS:
+
+- PDC_getclipboard() and PDC_setclipboard() for accessing the native
+  clipboard (X11, Win32 and OS/2)
+
+- PDC_set_title() for setting the title of the window (X11 and Win32
+  only)
+
+- PDC_get_input_fd() for getting the file handle of the PDCurses input
+
+- PDC_get_key_modifiers() for getting the keyboard modifier settings at
+  the time of the last (w)getch()
+
+- Xinitscr() (only for X11 port) which allows standard X11 switches to
+  be passed to the application
+
+NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:
+
+- MingW32 GNU compiler under Win95/NT
+
+- Cygnus Win32 GNU compiler under Win95/NT
+
+- Borland C++ for OS/2 1.0+
+
+- lcc-win32 compiler under Win95/NT
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release)
+
+- Georg Fuchs for various changes.
+- Juan David Palomar for pointing out getnstr() was not implemented.
+- William McBrine for fix to allow black/black as valid color pair.
+- Peter Preus for pointing out the missing bccos2.mak file.
+- Laura Michaels for a couple of bug fixes and changes required to
+  support Mingw32 compiler.
+- Frank Heckenbach for PDC_get_input_fd() and some portability fixes and
+  the fixes for panel library.
+- Matthias Burian for the lcc-win32 compiler support.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.3 - 1998/07/09
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+This release of PDCurses includes the following changes:
+
+- added more System V R4 functions
+
+- added Win32 port
+
+- the X11 port is now fully functional
+
+- the MS Visual C++ Win32 port now includes a DLL
+
+- both the X11 and Win32 ports support the mouse
+
+- the slk..() functions are now functional
+
+- support for scrollbars under X11 are experimental at this stage
+
+- long chtype extended to non-Unix ports
+
+The name of the statically built library is pdcurses.lib (or
+pdcurses.a). The name of the DLL import library (where applicable) is
+curses.lib.
+
+BUGS FIXED:
+
+- some minor bugs were corrected in this release
+
+NEW FUNCTIONS:
+
+- slk..() functions
+
+NEW COMPILER SUPPORT:
+
+- MS Visual C++ under Win95/NT
+
+- Watcom C++ under OS/2, Win32 and DOS
+
+- two EMX ports have been provided:
+  - OS/2 only using OS/2 APIs
+  - OS/2 and DOS using EMX video support routines
+
+EXTRA OPTIONS:
+
+PDCurses recognizes two environment variables which determines the
+initialization and finalization behavior.  These environment variables
+do not apply to the X11 port.
+
+PDC_PRESERVE_SCREEN -
+If this environment variable is set, PDCurses will not clear the screen
+to the default white on black on startup.  This allows you to overlay
+a window over the top of the existing screen background.
+
+PDC_RESTORE_SCREEN -
+If this environment variable is set, PDCurses will take a copy of the
+contents of the screen at the time that PDCurses is started; initscr(),
+and when endwin() is called, the screen will be restored.
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release)
+
+- Chris Szurgot for original Win32 port.
+- Gurusamy Sarathy for some updates to the Win32 port.
+- Kim Huron for the slk..() functions.
+- Florian Grosse Coosmann for some bug fixes.
+- Esa Peuha for reducing compiler warnings.
+- Augustin Martin Domingo for patches to X11 port to enable accented
+  characters.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.2 - 1995/02/12
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+ This release of PDCurses has includes a number of major changes:
+
+- The portable library functions are now grouped together into single
+  files with the same arrangement as System V R4 curses.
+
+- A panels library has been included. This panels library was written by
+  Warren Tucker.
+
+- Quite a few more functions have been supplied by Wade Schauer and
+  incorporated into release 2.2. Wade also supplied the support for the
+  Microway NDP C/C++ 32 bit DOS compiler.
+
+- The curses datatype has been changed from an unsigned int to a long.
+  This allows more attributes to be stored as well as increasing the
+  number of color-pairs from 32 to 64.
+
+- Xwindows port (experimental at the moment).
+
+BUGS FIXED:
+
+- mvwin() checked the wrong coordinates
+
+- removed DESQview shadow memory buffer checking bug in curses.h in
+  \#define for wstandout()
+
+- lots of others I can't remember
+
+NEW FUNCTIONS:
+
+- Too many to mention. See intro.man for a complete list of the
+  functions PDCurses now supports.
+
+COMPILER SUPPORT:
+
+- DJGPP 1.12 is now supported. The run-time error that caused programs
+  to crash has been removed.
+
+- emx 0.9a is supported. A program compiled for OS/2 should also work
+  under DOS if you use the VID=EMX switch when compiling. See the
+  makefile for details.
+
+- The Microway NDP C/C++ DOS compiler is now supported. Thanks to Wade
+  Schauer for this port.
+
+- The Watcom C++ 10.0 DOS compiler is now supported. Thanks to Pieter
+  Kunst for this port.
+
+- The library now has many functions grouped together to reduce the size
+  of the library and to improve the speed of compilation.
+
+- The "names" of a couple of the compilers in the makefile has changed;
+  CSET2 is now ICC and GO32 is now GCC.
+
+EXTRA OPTIONS:
+
+ One difference between the behavior of PDCurses and Unix curses is the
+ attributes that are displayed when a character is cleared. Under Unix
+ curses, no attributes are displayed, so the result is always black.
+ Under PDCurses, these functions clear with the current attributes in
+ effect at the time. With the introduction of the bkgd functions, by
+ default, PDCurses clears using the value set by (w)bkgd(). To have
+ PDCurses behave the same way as it did before release 2.2, compile with
+ -DPDCURSES_WCLR
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (for this release)
+
+ Pieter Kunst, David Nugent, Warren Tucker, Darin Haugen, Stefan Strack,
+ Wade Schauer and others who either alerted me to bugs or supplied
+ fixes.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.1 - 1993/06/20
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+ The current code contains bug fixes for the DOS and OS/2 releases and
+ also includes an alpha release for Unix. The Unix release uses another
+ public domain package (mytinfo) to handle the low-level screen writes.
+ mytinfo was posted to comp.sources.unix (or misc) in December 1992 or
+ January 1993. Unless you are a glutton for punishment I would recommend
+ you avoid the Unix port at this stage.
+
+ The other major addition to PDCurses is the support for DJGPP (the DOS
+ port of GNU C++). Thanks to David Nugent <davidn@csource.oz.au>.
+
+ Other additions are copywin() function, function debugging support and
+ getting the small and medium memory models to work. The testcurs.c demo
+ program has also been changed significantly and a new demo program,
+ tuidemo, has been added.
+
+ Some people have suggested including information on where to get dmake
+ from. oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/c
+
+OTHER NOTES:
+
+ Under DOS, by default, screen writes to a CGA monitor are done via the
+ video BIOS rather than by direct video memory writes. This is due to
+ the CGA "snow" problem. If you have a CGA monitor and do not suffer
+ from snow, you can compile private\_queryad.c with CGA_DIRECT defined.
+ This will then use cause PDCurses to write directly to the CGA video
+ memory.
+
+ Function debugging: Firstly to get function debugging, you have to
+ compile the library with OPT=N in the makefile. This also turns on
+ compiler debugging. You can control when you want PDCurses to write to
+ the debug file (called trace in the current directory) by using the
+ functions traceon() and traceoff() in your program.
+
+ Microsoft C 6.00 Users note:
+ ----------------------------
+
+ With the addition of several new functions, using dmake to compile
+ PDCurses now causes the compiler to run "out of heap space in pass 2".
+ Using the 6.00AX version (DOS-Extended) to compile PDCurses fixes this
+ problem; hence the -EM switch.
+
+ Functional changes
+ ------------------
+
+ Added OS/2 DLL support.
+
+ A few curses functions have been fixed to exhibit their correct
+ behavior and make them more functionally portable with System V
+ curses. The functions that have changed are overlay(), overwrite() and
+ typeahead.
+
+ overlay() and overwrite()
+
+ Both of theses functions in PDCurses 2.0 allowed for one window to be
+ effectively placed on top of another, and the characters in the first
+ window were overlaid or overwritten starting at 0,0 in both windows.
+ This behavior of these functions was not correct. These functions only
+ operate on windows that physically overlap with respect to the
+ displayed screen. To achieve the same functionality as before, use the
+ new function copywin(). See the manual page for further details.
+
+ typeahead()
+
+ This function in PDCurses 2.0 effectively checked to see if there were
+ any characters remaining in the keyboard buffer. This is not the
+ behavior exhibited by System V curses. This function is intended
+ purely to set a flag so that curses can check while updating the
+ physical screen if any keyboard input is pending. To achieve the same
+ effect with typeahead() under PDCurses 2.1 the following code should be
+ used.
+
+ In place of...
+
+   while(!typeahead(stdin))
+    {
+      /* do something until any key is pressed... */
+    }
+
+ use...
+
+   /* getch() to return ERR if no key pending */
+   nodelay(stdscr,TRUE);
+   while(getch() == (ERR))
+    {
+      /* do something until any key is pressed... */
+    }
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (in no particular order)
+
+ Jason Shumate, Pieter Kunst, David Nugent, Andreas Otte, Pasi
+ Hamalainen, James McLennan, Duane Paulson, Ib Hojme
+
+ Apologies to anyone I may have left out.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.0 - 1992/11/23
+=========================
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+ Well, here it finally is; PDCurses v2.0.
+
+ PDCurses v2.0 is an almost total rewrite of PCcurses 1.4 done by John
+ 'Frotz' Fa'atuai, the previous maintainer. It adds support for OS/2 as
+ well as DOS.
+
+ This version has been tested with Microsoft C v6.0, QuickC v2.0 and
+ Borland C++ 2.0 under DOS and Microsoft C v6.0 and TopSpeed c v3.02
+ under OS/2 2.0. Also the library has been compiled successfully with
+ emx 0.8e, C Set/2 and Watcom 9. Most testing was done with the large
+ memory model, where applicable. The large memory model is probably the
+ best model to use.
+
+ The amount of testing has not been as extensive as I would have liked,
+ but demands on releasing a product have outweighed the product's
+ quality. Nothing new with that !! Hopefully with wider circulation,
+ more bugs will be fixed more quickly.
+
+ I have included just 1 makefile which is suitable for dmake 3.8 for
+ both DOS and OS/2. The makefile does not rely on customization of the
+ dmake.ini file.
+
+ If you discover bugs, and especially if you have fixes, please let me
+ know ASAP.
+
+ The source to the library is distributed as a zip file made with zip
+ 1.9. You will need Info-ZIP unzip 5.0 to unzip. Follow the directions
+ below to compile the library.
+
+DIRECTIONS:
+
+ 1. Create a new directory in which to unzip pdcurs20.zip. This will
+    create a curses directory and a number of subdirectories containing
+    source code for the library and utilities and the documentation.
+
+ 2. Make changes to the makefile where necessary:
+    Change the MODEL or model macro to the appropriate value (if it
+    applies to your compiler). Use model for Borland compilers.
+
+    Change any paths in the defined macros to be suitable for your
+    compiler.
+
+ 3. Invoke DMAKE [-e environment_options] [target]
+
+    where environment_options are:
+
+        OS (host operating system)
+        COMP (compiler)
+        OPT (optimized version or debug version) - optional. default Y
+        TOS (target operating system) - optional. default OS
+
+    see the makefile for valid combinations
+
+    targets: all, demos, lcursesd.lib, manual...
+
+    NB. dmake is case sensitive with targets, so those environments that
+    use an upper case model value (eg MSC) MUST specify the library
+    target as for eg. Lcursesd.lib
+
+    The makefile is by default set up for Borland C++. The use of -e
+    environment_options override these defaults. If you prefer, you can
+    just change the defaults in the makefile and invoke it without the
+    -e switch.
+
+OTHER NOTES:
+
+ The documentation for the library is built into each source file, a
+ couple of specific doc files and the header files. A program is
+ supplied (manext) to build the manual. This program gets compiled when
+ you build the documentation.
+
+ To generate the library response file correctly, I had to write a quick
+ and dirty program (buildlrf) to achieve this. Originally the makefiles
+ just had statements like: "echo -+$(OBJ)\$* & >> $(LRF)" which appended
+ a suitable line to the response file. Unfortunately under some
+ combinations of makefiles and command processors (eg. nmake and 4DOS)
+ the & would get treated as stderr and the echo command would fail.
+
+ The original source for PDCurses that I received from the previous
+ maintainer contained support for the FLEXOS operating system. Not
+ having access to it, I could not test the changes I made so its support
+ has fallen by the wayside. If you really need to have PDCurses running
+ under FLEXOS, contact me and I will see what can be arranged.
+
+ Under DOS, by default, screen writes to a CGA monitor are done via the
+ video BIOS rather than by direct video memory writes. This is due to
+ the CGA "snow" problem. If you have a CGA monitor and do not suffer
+ from snow, you can compile private\_queryad.c with CGA_DIRECT defined.
+ This will then use cause PDCurses to write directly to the CGA video
+ memory.
+
+ Added System V color support.
+
+COMPILER-SPECIFIC NOTES:
+
+ Microsoft C
+ -----------
+
+ It is possible with MSC 6.0 to build the OS/2 libraries and demo
+ programs from within DOS. This is the only case where it is possible to
+ specify the value of TOS on the command line to be OS2 and the value of
+ OS be DOS.
+
+ C Set/2
+ -------
+
+ I have only tested the library using the migration libraries. I doubt
+ that the demo programs will work without them.
+
+ emx
+ ---
+
+ Testing has been done with 0.8e of emx together with the 16_to_32
+ libraries. The emx\lib directory should include the vio32.lib and
+ kbd32.lib libraries from the 16_to_32 package.
+
+BUGS and UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
+
+- PDC_set_ctrl_break() function does not work under OS/2.
+
+- win_print() and PDC_print() do not work under OS/2.
+
+- The file todo.man in the doc directory also lists those functions of
+  System V 3.2 curses not yet implemented. Any volunteers?
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
+
+- John 'Frotz' Fa'atuai, the previous maintainer for providing an
+  excellent base for further development.
+- John Burnell <johnb@kea.am.dsir.govt.nz>, for the OS/2 port.
+- John Steele, Jason (finally NOT a John) Shumate....
+  for various fixes and suggestions.
+- Eberhardt Mattes (author of emx) for allowing code based on his
+  C library to be included with PDCurses.
+- Several others for their support, moral and actual.
+
+-- Mark Hessling
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 2.0Beta - 1991/12/21
+=============================
+
+Changed back from short to int. (int is the correct size for the default
+platform. Short might be too short on some platforms. This is more
+portable. I, also, made this mistake.)
+
+Many functions are now macros.  If you want the real thing, #undef the
+macro. (X/Open requirement.)
+
+Merged many sources into current release.
+
+Added many X/Open routines (not quite all yet).
+
+Added internal documentation to all routines.
+
+Added a HISTORY file to the environment.
+
+Added a CONTRIB file to the environment.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 1.5Beta - 1990/07/14
+=============================
+
+Added many levels of compiler support. Added mixed prototypes for all
+"internal" routines. Removed all assembly language.  Added EGA/VGA
+support.  Converted all #ifdef to #if in all modules except CURSES.H and
+CURSPRIV.H. Always include ASSERT.H.  Added support for an external
+malloc(), calloc() and free(). Added support for FAST_VIDEO
+(direct-memory writes). Added various memory model support (for
+FAST_VIDEO). Added much of the December 1988 X/Open Curses
+specification.
+
+-- John 'Frotz' Fa'atuai
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PCcurses 1.4 - 1990/01/14
+=========================
+
+  In PCcurses v.1.4, both portability improvements and bugfixes have
+been made. The files have been changed to allow lint-free compilation
+with Microsoft C v.5.1, and with Turbo C v.2.0. The source should still
+compile without problems on older compilers, although this has not been
+verified.
+
+  The makefiles have been changed to suit both the public release and
+the author, who maintains a special kind of libraries for himself. In
+the case of Microsoft C, changes were done in the makefile to lower the
+warning level to 2 (was 3). This was to avoid ANSI warnings which are
+abundant because PCcurses does not attempt to follow strict ANSI C
+standard.
+
+  BUG FIXES FROM V.1.3 TO V.1.4:
+
+  !!!IMPORTANT CHANGE!!!
+
+  The definitions for OK and ERR in curses.h were exchanged. This was
+done to be more consistent with UNIX versions. Also, it permits
+functions like newwin() and subwin() to return 0 (=NULL) when they fail
+due to memory shortage. This incompatibility with UNIX curses was
+pointed out by Fred C. Smith. If you have tested success/failure by
+comparisons to anything other than ERR and OK, your applications will
+need to be be changed on that point. Sorry... but presumably most of you
+used the symbolic constants?
+
+  (END OF IMPORTANT CHANGE)
+
+  Fred also pointed out a bug in the file update.c. The bug caused the
+first character printed after 'unauthorized' screen changes (like during
+a shell escape, for example) to be placed at the wrong screen position.
+This happened even if the normal precautions (clear / touch / refresh)
+were taken. The problem has now been fixed.
+
+  PCcurses is currently also being used on a 68000 system with
+hard-coded ESCape sequences for ANSI terminals. However, ints used by
+the 68000 C compiler are 32 bits. Therefore ints have been turned into
+shorts wherever possible in the code (otherwise all window structures
+occupy twice as much space as required on the 68000). This does not
+affect PC versions since normally both ints and shorts are 16 bits for
+PC C compilers.
+
+  At some places in the source code there are references made to the
+68000 version. There are also a makefile, a curses68.c file, and a
+curses68.cmd file. These are for making, low-level I/O, and linking
+commands when building the 68000 version. These files are probably
+useful to no-one but the author, since it is very specific for its
+special hardware environment. Still in an effort to keep all
+curses-related sources in one place they are included. Note however that
+PCcurses will not officially support a non-PC environment.
+
+  The file cursesio.c, which was included in the package at revision
+level 1.2, and which was to be an alternative to the cursesio.asm file,
+has been verified to behave incorrectly in the function _curseskeytst().
+The problem was that the value of 'cflag' does not contain the proper
+data for the test that is attempted. Furthermore, neither Turbo C or
+Microsoft C allows any way to return the data that is needed, and
+consequently you should not use cursesio.c. The best solution is to
+simply use the ASM version. In v.1.2 and v.1.3, the user could edit the
+makefile to select which version he wanted to use. The makefiles in
+v.1.4 have removed this possibility forcing the use of the ASM file, and
+cursesio.c has been dropped from the distribution.
+
+  A bug in the wgetstr() function caused PCcurses to echo characters
+when reading a keyboard string, even if the echo had been turned off.
+Thanks to Per Foreby at Lund University, Sweden, for this. Per also
+reported bugs concerning the handling of characters with bit 8 set.
+Their ASCII code were considered as lower than 32, so they were erased
+etc. like control characters, i.e. erasing two character positions. The
+control character test was changed to cope with this.
+
+  The overlay() and overwrite() functions were changed so that the
+overlaying window is positioned at its 'own' coordinates inside the
+underlying window (it used to be at the underlying window's [0,0]
+position). There is some controversy about this - the documentation for
+different curses versions say different things. I think the choice made
+is the most reasonable.
+
+  The border() and wborder() functions were changed to actually draw a
+border, since this seems to be the correct behavior of these functions.
+They used to just set the border characters to be used by box(). These
+functions are not present in standard BSD UNIX curses.
+
+  The subwin() function previously did not allow the subwindow to be as
+big as the original window in which it was created. This has now been
+fixed. There was also the problem that the default size (set by
+specifying numlines or numcols (or both) as 0 made the resulting actual
+size 1 line/column too small.
+
+  There were a few spelling errors in function names, both in the
+function declarations and in curses.h. This was reported by Carlos
+Amaral at INESC in Portugal. Thanks! There was also an unnecessary (but
+harmless) parameter in a function call at one place.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PCcurses 1.3 - 1988/10/05
+=========================
+
+  The file 'border.c' is now included. It allows you to explicitly
+specify what characters should be used as box borders when the box()
+functions are called. If the new border characters are non-0, they
+override the border characters specified in the box() call. In my
+understanding, this functionality is required for AT&T UNIX sV.3
+compatibility. Thanks for this goes to Tony L. Hansen
+(hansen@pegasus.UUCP) for posting an article about it on Usenet
+(newsgroup comp.unix.questions; his posting was not related at all to
+PCcurses).
+
+  The only other difference between v.1.2 and v.1.3 is that the latter
+has been changed to avoid warning diagnostics if the source files are
+compiled with warning switches on (for Microsoft this means '-W3', for
+Turbo C it means '-w -w-pro'). Of these, the Turbo C warning check is
+clearly to be used rather than Microsoft, even if neither of them comes
+even close to a real UNIX 'lint'. Some of the warnings in fact indicated
+real bugs, mostly functions that did not return correct return values or
+types.
+
+  The makefiles for both MSC and TRC have been modified to produce
+warning messages as part of normal compilation.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PCcurses 1.2 - 1988/10/02
+=========================
+
+  The changes from v.1.1 to v.1.2 are minor. The biggest change is that
+there was a bug related to limiting the cursor movement if the
+application tried to move it outside the screen (something that should
+not be done anyway). Such erroneous application behavior is now handled
+appropriately.
+
+  All modules have been changed to have a revision string in them, which
+makes it easier to determine what version is linked into a program (or
+what library version you have).
+
+  There is now a 'cursesio.c' file. That file does the same as
+'cursesio.asm' (i.e. it provides the interface to the lower-level system
+I/O routines). It is written in C and thus it is (possibly) more
+portable than the assembler version (but still not so portable since it
+uses 8086 INT XX calls directly). When one creates new curses libraries,
+one chooses whether to use the assembler or the C version of cursesio.
+The choice is made by commenting out the appropriate dependencies for
+cursesio.obj, near the end of the makefiles.
+
+  There is now a 'setmode.c' file. That file contains functions that
+save and restore terminal modes. They do it into other variables than do
+savetty() and resetty(), so one should probably use either
+savetty()/resetty() or the new functions only - and not mix the both
+ways unless one really knows what one does.
+
+  Diff lists vs v.1.0 are no longer included in the distribution. The
+make utility still is. PCcurses v.1.2 still compiles with Microsoft C
+v.4.0, and with Borland Turbo C v.1.0. There is as far as I know no
+reason to believe that it does not compile under Microsoft C v.3.0 and
+5.x, or Turbo C v.1.5, but this has not been tested.
+
+  There are two makefiles included, one for Microsoft C, one for Turbo
+C. They are both copies of my personal makefiles, and as such they
+reflect the directory structure on my own computer. This will have to be
+changed before you run make. Check $(INCDIR) and $(LIBDIR) in
+particular, and make the choice of ASM or C cursesio version as
+mentioned above (the distribution version uses the C version of
+cursesio).
+
+  The manual file (curses.man) has been changed at appropriate places.
+
+  I would like to thank the following persons for their help:
+
+     Brandon S. Allbery (alberry@ncoast.UUCP)
+      for running comp.binaries.ibm.pc (at that time)
+      and comp.source.misc.
+
+   Steve Balogh (Steve@cit5.cit.oz.AU)
+        for writing a set of manual pages and posting
+      them to the net.
+
+   Torbjorn Lindh
+      for finding bugs and suggesting raw
+      character output routines.
+
+   Nathan Glasser (nathan@eddie.mit.edu)
+        for finding and reporting bugs.
+
+   Ingvar Olafsson (...enea!hafro!ingvar)
+        for finding and reporting bugs.
+
+   Eric Rosco (...enea!ipmoea!ericr)
+        for finding and reporting bugs.
+
+   Steve Creps (creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu)
+        for doing a lot of work - among others
+      posting bug fixes to the net, and writing
+      the new cursesio.c module.
+
+   N. Dean Pentcheff (dean@violet.berkeley.edu)
+        for finding bugs and rewriting cursesio.asm
+      for Turbo 'C' 1.5.
+
+  Finally, Jeff Dean (parcvax,hplabs}!cdp!jeff)
+             (jeff@ads.arpa)
+   has had a shareware version of curses deliverable since
+   about half a year before I released PCcurses 1.0 on Use-
+   Net. He is very concerned about confusion between the two
+   packages, and therefore any references on the network
+   should make clear whether they reference Dean's PCcurses
+   or Larsson's PCcurses.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PCcurses 1.1 - 1988/03/06
+=========================
+
+  The changes from v.1.0 to v.1.1 are minor. There are a few bug fixes,
+and new (non-portable) functions for verbatim IBM character font display
+have been added (in charadd.c and charins.c). The manual file
+(curses.man) has been changed at appropriate places.
+
+  In the file v10tov11.dif there are listings of the differences between
+version 1.0 and 1.1. The diff listings are in UNIX diff(1) format.
+
+  Version 1.1 compiles with Turbo C v.1.0, as well as Microsoft C v.3.0
+and v.4.0. On the release disk there is a make.exe utility which is very
+similar to UNIX make (If the package was mailed to you, the make utility
+will be in uuencoded format - in make.uu - and must be uudecoded first).
+It is much more powerful than Microsoft's different MAKEs; the latter
+ones will NOT generate libraries properly if used with the PCcurses
+makefiles.
+
+  There are three makefiles:
+
+   makefile      generic MSC 3.0 makefile
+   makefile.ms      MSC 4.0 makefile
+   makefile.tc      Turbo C 1.0 makefile
+
+  To make a library with for example Turbo C, make directories to hold
+.H and .LIB files (these directories are the 'standard places'), edit
+makefile.tc for this, and type
+
+   make -f makefile.tc all
+
+and libraries for all memory models will be created in the .LIB
+directory, while the include files will end up in the .H directory. Also
+read what is said about installation below!
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PCcurses 1.0 - 1987/08/24
+=========================
+
+  This is the release notes for the PCcurses v.1.0 cursor/window control
+package. PCcurses offers the functionality of UNIX curses, plus some
+extras. Normally it should be possible to port curses-based programs
+from UNIX curses to PCcurses on the IBM PC without changes. PCcurses is
+a port/ rewrite of Pavel Curtis' public domain 'ncurses' package. All
+the code has been re-written - it is not just an edit of ncurses (or
+UNIX curses). I mention this to clarify any copyright violation claims.
+The data structures and ideas are very similar to ncurses. As for UNIX
+curses, I have not even seen any sources for it.
+
+  For an introduction to the use of 'curses' and its derivatives, you
+should read 'Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization: A Library
+Package' by Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold, which describes the original
+Berkeley UNIX version of curses. It is available as part of the UNIX
+manuals. The other source of information is 'The Ncurses Reference
+Manual' by Pavel Curtis. The latter is part of Curtis' ncurses package.
+
+  The only other documentation provided is a 'man' page which describes
+all the included functions in a very terse way. In the sources, each
+function is preceded by a rather thorough description of what the
+function does. I didn't have time to write a nice manual/tutorial -
+sorry.
+
+  PCcurses is released as a number of source files, a man page, and a
+make file. A uuencoded copy of a 'make' utility, and a manpage for the
+'make' is also provided to make it easier to put together PCcurses
+libraries. Even if you are not interested in PCcurses, it may be
+worthwhile to grab the make.
+
+  The makefile assumes the presence of the Microsoft C compiler (3.0 or
+4.0), Microsoft MASM and LIB, plus some MS-DOS utilities. The reason for
+supplying MAKE.EXE is that the Microsoft 'MAKE:s' are much inferior to a
+real UNIX make. The supplied make is a port of a public domain make,
+published on Usenet. It is almost completely compatible with UNIX make.
+When generating the curses libraries, the makefile will direct make to
+do some directory creating and file copying, and then re-invoke itself
+with new targets. The workings of the makefile are not absolutely
+crystal clear at first sight... just start it and see what it does.
+
+  For portability, the curses libraries depend on one assembler file for
+access to the BIOS routines. There is no support for the EGA, but both
+CGA, MGA, and the HGA can be used. The libraries are originally for
+Microsoft C, but all C modules should be portable right away. In the
+assembler file, segment names probably need to be changed, and possibly
+the parameter passing scheme. I think Turbo C will work right away - as
+far as I understand, all its conventions are compatible with Microsoft
+C.
+
+  There are some parts left out between ncurses and PCcurses. One is the
+support for multiple terminals - not very interesting on a PC anyway.
+Because we KNOW what terminal we have, there is no need for a termcap or
+terminfo library. PCcurses also has some things that neither curses nor
+ncurses have. Compared to the original UNIX curses, PCcurses has lots of
+extras.
+
+  The BIOS routines are used directly, which gives fast screen updates.
+PCcurses does not do direct writes to screen RAM - in my opinion it is
+a bit ugly to rely that much on hardware compatibility. Anyone could fix
+that, of course...
+
+  One of the more serious problems with PCcurses is the way in which
+normal, cbreak, and raw input modes are done. All those details are in
+the 'charget' module - I do raw I/O via the BIOS, and perform any
+buffering myself. If an application program uses PCcurses, it should do
+ALL its I/O via PCcurses calls, otherwise the mix of normal and
+PCcurses I/O may mess up the display. I think my code is reasonable...
+comments are welcome, provided you express them nicely...
+
+  To install, copy all files to a work directory, edit 'makefile' to
+define the standard include and library file directory names of your
+choice (these directories must exist already, and their path names must
+be relative to the root directory, not to the current one). You must
+also run uudecode on make.uu, to generate MAKE.EXE. You can do that on
+your PC, if you have uudecode there, otherwise you can do it under UNIX
+and do a binary transfer to the PC. When you have MAKE.EXE in your work
+directory (or in your /bin directory), type make.
+
+  Make will now create 4 sub-directories (one for each memory model),
+copy some assembler include files into them, copy two include files to
+your include directory, CHDIR to each sub-directory and re-invoke itself
+with other make targets to compile and assemble all the source files
+into the appropriate directories. Then the library manager is run to
+create the library files in your desired library directory. Presto!
+
+  If you only want to generate a library for one memory model, type
+'make small', 'make large', etc. The name of the memory model must be in
+lower case, like in the makefile.
+
+  I think the package is fairly well debugged - but then again, that's
+what I always think. It was completed in May-87, and no problems found
+yet. Now it's your turn... Comments, suggestions and bug reports and
+fixes (no flames please) to
+
+-- Bjorn Larsson