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-PDCurses 4.0.4 - 2019 Jan 20
-=========================
-Major new feature:
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-
-- 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:
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-
-- 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:
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-
-- 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.
-
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-
-PDCurses 3.3 - 2007/07/11
-=========================
-
-This release adds an SDL backend, refines the demos, and is faster in
-some cases.
-
-New features:
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-
-- 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.
-
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-
-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.
-
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-
-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.
-
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-
-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