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+Generally speaking,  this history mentions only the more significant
+changes.  See the git log for full details.
+
+PDCursesMod 4.5.4 - 2026 April 07
+=================================
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- Added 'vt0.c' example code for a PDCurses/PDCursesMod-based terminal
+  emulator.  2df44e183f,  several subsequent commits.
+
+- Framebuffer and DRM ports can show fullwidth characters.  bc3b4d8449
+
+- chtypes can be short (16-bit) integers.  This is mostly of use in very
+  memory-restricted environments,  such as in some DOS code.  e215a6d4b5
+  a3762aa3fd
+
+- For the GL port,  the 'resize' mode can be set via the PDC_RESIZE
+  environment variable.  b8f822040e
+
+- Added a new 'show_uni' test program to display Unicode data.  d0c2ef2953
+
+- 'naptest.c' (test code for the DOS napms() function) improved and now
+  works with compilers other than just Digital Mars.  677ec0c9da
+
+- VT platform can be compiled with djgpp and runs correctly (see issue
+  #340).  Parts of the fix by Gisle Vanem.   222b475523
+
+- OpenWATCOM builds in DOS,  DOSVGA,  and VT ports allow you to specify
+  CHTYPE_32=Y or CHTYPE_16=Y (default is 64-bit chtypes).  8e415f1351
+
+- Unicode fullwidth/halfwidth/zero-width definitions updated from the
+  Unicode 16.0.0 standard to 17.0.0.  6ab0d4f2a8
+
+- DOS key remapping for the VT port now uses the same table as the DOS,
+  DOSVGA,  and OS/2 ports.  This results in slightly simpler code,  and
+  means a DOS VT port recognizes quite a few more keys.  4ce36296ad
+
+- Blinking and PDC_gotoyx() code is almost identical between the SDLn,
+  x11new,  GL,  WinGUI,  and framebuffer/DRM ports;  that code is now
+  in common/blink.c.  This allows the cursor to blink in all of those
+  ports and (in some cases) for the caret and hollow-box cursor styles
+  to be supported.  f06ab53f0a  f6657a39a5  fec5d8be50  9e3cde79ae
+  4c8d3a0398  9e3cde79ae
+
+- DOSVGA now supports ~16 million (2^24 + 256) colors and 1M (2^20)
+  color pairs,  similar to (and using the same underlying code as)
+  WinGUI,  SDLs,  GL,  framebuffer/DRM,  and x11new.  It also now
+  supports blinking and a few cursor styles (caret,  half-block,
+  underscore,  full block).  bd4cc9c616  ac0c9459aa
+
+- DOSVGA Makefile revised to simplify use of DJGPP,  and to use full
+  warnings.  A few 'nuisance' warnings were corrected.  141b7f642b
+
+- VT platform now beeps.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- Input processing now follows the Open Group (SUSv2) specifications.
+  9e0b701fb0
+
+- VT now works fully on Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS,  fixing several
+  display issues.  Also,  mouse clicks are correctly handled in the
+  VT platform on Windows,  and window resizing is (mostly) handled.
+  (Mouse control sequences appear to not be done in DOS,  so VT in
+  DOS continues to ignore mouse events.)  9401517387  b3e0830262
+  4861583385  ac2c5441f5  b3f4eca4bf  410f5cfad4  ace6fc1248
+
+- PDC_millisecs() now will usually pick a better underlying timekeeping
+  function.  7906c61500
+
+- Overflow in PDC_millisecs() could conceivably happen,  affecting the
+  handling of mouse clicks.  e23eb347f6
+
+- On Microsoft Windows,  the VT port should emit alternative character
+  set glyphs using code page 437 characters for 8-bit character builds
+  and Unicode characters for wide builds.  615a32c652
+
+- WinGUI : mouse modifiers (Ctr, Alt, Shift) became 'stuck' from the
+  previous keys hit,  and were not turned off when the modifier keys
+  in question were released.  9f9819fe8d
+
+- The DOS/DOSVGA napms() code didn't handle negative nap times correctly.
+  Also fixed a timing error of one part in 250 million (only a theoretical
+  problem;  no DOS clock is that accurate).  75da2de072
+
+- Fixed unknown attribute warning when compiling WinCon for (mostly)
+  non-Intel(R) platforms.  Report from nhmall.  2067b43551
+
+- WinGUI : positions returned for mouse wheel events were wrong.
+  cd8cd7efd8
+
+- WinCon : a typo prevented mouse wheel events from working at all.
+  Fix provided by Jordan Hemming.  93dba3adf6
+
+- Fullwidth characters are now shown correctly for 32-bit chtypes (if they
+  are supported on that platform in the first place,  and the font
+  actually has glyphs for them).  3d6bc63caa
+
+- wchgat( ) didn't mask out colors from 'attr'.  This could lead to
+  garbage display when those colors were ORred with those from the
+  'color' parameter.  f19bc59406d
+
+PDCursesMod 4.5.3 - 2025 August 11
+==================================
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- More fixes a la those in 'upstream' PDCurses to make MANUAL.md more
+  markdown-friendly.  3e528a85d4  ed3103d705
+
+- Framebuffer and DRM ports now have full mouse support.  7ec7b956f0
+  2728d46838  04a5f1de93
+
+- Zooming/panning around in 'picsview' no longer flickers.  af4a7c5d72
+
+- Start made on making use of individual flags in curses_trace().
+  Previously,  debug output was all or nothing (still is,  mostly,  but
+  that can now be changed).  8f73eb0c1b
+
+- Various fixes to allow compilation of WinGUI and WinCon with Microsoft
+  Visual C 5.0.  b56ea997e7  5bd5a1d535  1de3e4d6b4  2b48f9541e
+  f381244bf5
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- stdin/stdout redirection now works on the Windows console platform.  Fix
+  supplied by Robin Haberkorn.  6855b3247f  8fbb3a64ea
+
+- C23-compliant compilers (and some others) objected to the casting of
+  function pointers returned by GetProcAddress().  ce60aa6608  7309a03c81
+
+- If PDC_NCMOUSE is #defined,  the behavior of the mouse routines should
+  copy that of ncurses,  warts and all.  Scroll-up and down are mapped
+  to presses on buttons 4 and 5,  and tilt-scroll events and "real"
+  button 4 and 5 events are ignored.  0de9f723e3
+
+- Minor fixes for Digital Mars and OpenWATCOM compilation of WinCon and
+  WinGUI.  a4c01532e8  6af988940d  6eedea061c
+
+- Fixes for the VT port for DOS.  fdd95ca370  4e23068f85  2006f0a085
+  1994189705  bb1f6e4bc9  277765ecdc  6ab0a9b1a5  dd7a0a89f0
+
+- 'widetest.c' had a bad test to determine if wchar_t was two bytes
+  (instead of the obvious choice of four).  Pointed out by Gisle Vanem
+  in issue #340.  0baaa34d0e
+
+- COLOR_PAIRS could be effectively truncated to 8192.  20160b07e0
+
+- Colors could get mangled if sizeof( int) == 2.  4682321794
+
+PDCursesMod 4.5.2 - 2025 June 19
+================================
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- Framebuffer/DRM shows a mouse cursor now,  if built with HAVE_MOUSE=Y.
+  It doesn't actually respond to mouse events yet,  but that should be
+  relatively straightforward.  7578a604b9
+
+- x11new and framebuffer/DRM ports cleaned up,  READMEs updated,  some
+  unnecessary code removed.  b08805c7dd  6221595646  f300bfa0c0  bae06a863c
+
+- Fixes for C90 compliance : removed some C++-style // comments,  moved
+  variables to the top of code blocks,  used TRUE/FALSE instead of
+  true/false.  880000943a  9efd32336c
+
+- In x11new,  you can hit Ctrl-Minus and Ctrl-Plus to go to the next smaller
+  or larger font size,  respectively.  43066a8c8c
+
+- The `PDC_KEY_MODIFIER_REPEAT` modifier was not applied in SDL1 and x11new,
+  and was broken in SDL2.  83fa89ce74  6bf92e1a06
+
+- Changed some documentation to be more markdown-friendly when read into
+  MANUAL.md,  a la William McBrine's work upstream.  07a5469785
+  b786e76322  1cc01e4ec3  7cc0f0d1bb  c58fd922d0  a06e0be5ab
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- getch() triggered an assert() if fed a character that expanded to a
+  multi-byte string in PDC_FORCE_UTF8 builds (issue #335,  reported by
+  Robin Haberkorn).  6306ac2d48
+
+- WinCon/pdckbd.c contained a poorly-written cast to which the C23 standard
+  objects,  resulting in warnings/errors when built to that standard
+  (issue #333).  Fix supplied by Gisle Vanem.  2426dbc85e
+
+- The `PDC_KEY_MODIFIER_REPEAT` modifier was broken in SDL2.  6bf92e1a06
+
+PDCursesMod 4.5.1 - 2025 May 12
+===============================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+- Added an 'x11new' port : X11 written from scratch to require fewer
+  dependencies and to allow a memory-leakage-free build.
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- Framebuffer/DRM : simplified specifying which display to use.  If you
+  have suitable permissions,  Alt-= will cycle through displays.
+  db3cbb7b0e
+
+- `testcurs` now allows one to specify mouse mask parameters more precisely,
+  and/or to set a zero mouse interval (which should result in clicks being
+  converted to presses and releases).  Also,  can test using the ncurses
+  mouse interface instead of the 'classic' undocumented SysV mouse interface.
+  de6c742b4a   7a520f6261   91645ceb9b
+
+- VT port now works on Haiku.   e8f098d6de
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- Framebuffer/DRM port cursor didn't rotate when you rotated the screen.
+  f3188affb9
+
+- When restarting Curses,  the foreground/background weren't stored,
+  resulting in odd colors.  433dbfb1d7
+
+- The ncurses forms library does not build correctly for wide characters.
+  Until it's fixed,  it and the tests relying on it are only built in
+  narrow-character (8-bit) mode.     0f3125393c
+
+- Fixed possible read-outside-bounds error in UTF8 conversion.  5a6170982e
+
+- `testcurs` called scanw() with a "plain" %s format specifier.  The lack of
+  a width left it open to buffer overflow if more than 79 bytes were entered.
+  8bf383a7b5
+
+- VT build failed when using GNU make to cross-compile demos and tests for
+  Windows using MinGW.  d391921be0
+
+- Mouse input inconsistently respected `mousemask()` on most platforms.
+  The common logic for combining press/releases into clicks,  double- and
+  triple-clicks has been abstracted into `common/mouse.c`,  and is now used
+  by the WinCon,  WinGUI,  x11new,  and VT platforms (and will probably be
+  used eventually by most other platforms).  See issue #330.   52d206870c
+  9e857e7792  812bd6953a  592d27f164
+
+PDCursesMod 4.5.0 - 2024 Dec 31
+=================================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+- Added an OS/2 GUI port,  provided by chasonr.  23b1fbed61  267f92a2c0
+
+- The ncurses 'menu' library can be compiled and used with PDCursesMod,
+  and the ncurses program 'demo_menus' built to test it out.  (The
+  'forms' library can be built in 8-bit character mode -- it currently
+  uses ncurses internals for wide mode -- but doesn't appear to
+  actually work yet.)  07bc4ac785  1ad9562b9a
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- The DRM and Linux framebuffer port now allows for screen rotation.
+  Hit Alt-/ for a 90-degree rotation.  This should pave the way for
+  support on phones and other rotatable displays (and already helps if
+  you have a monitor in portrait mode).  0e41ba5e68  1b7b432f9c
+
+- Added is_cbreak(), is_echo(), is_nl(), is_raw() functions to access
+  members of the non-opaque SCREEN struct.  The first two replace
+  PDC_getcbreak() and PDC_getecho().  98b6969a7e
+
+- Windows can be created,  moved,  and resized that go off the right
+  and bottom edges of the screen,  a la ncurses.  (I think this was
+  an acknowledgment of the fact that after resizing a screen,  windows
+  might go over those edges anyway.)  Windows still cannot go off the
+  left or top edges.   bc51d18ff1
+
+- Added a new 'test' program for the issues mentioned above with
+  scrolling and winsertln(), wdeleteln(), winsdelln().  98c7405a3f
+
+- Three new small test programs to investigate various aspects of
+  how curses works (or doesn't work).  5cef1e3d00
+
+- The 'tests' programs can now be built,  on some platforms,  with
+  'make -f Makefile tests'.  200b548516  e611673b49  63138eaf34
+  80fdfe7095  218aa8c0ed
+
+- Switched from defaulting to ncurses-6.4 tests to ncurses-6.5.
+
+- WinGUI now defaults to resizable windows,  similar to SDLn,  WinCon,
+  and X11.  58807ea498
+
+- winsnstr() handled 513 _bytes_ from the input,  instead of the clearly
+  intended 513 wchar_ts.  This worked,  but was an unnecessarily low
+  limitation.  It is now fixed,  and the function can now handle
+  arbitrarily long strings via recursion.  Added some code to test this
+  in 'show_col.c'.  3f8dfa9e06   18ef78de69
+
+- PDC_wcwidth( ) updated from Unicode 14.0.0 to 16.0.0   93e32ef a5f13c2
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- In rare cases,  blinking on the framebuffer port could be disabled
+  due to an integer rollover.  eaee2a61f2
+
+- In WinGUI,  we could potentially read memory out of bounds.  From
+  slipher.  70d27245d1
+
+- In WinGUI,  theoretically 'monospaced' fonts were not necessarily
+  monospaced.  Reverted to drawing each character separately.  b99fed1acb
+
+- In WinGUI,  when redrawing a string of characters,  the preceding and
+  subsequent glyphs were also redrawn.  This was apparently needed at
+  one time to avoid stray pixels,  but appears to be unnecessary now.
+  8466f73e21
+
+- In WinGUI and WinCon,  PDC_clearclipboard() would fail if the clipboard
+  was not open.  From Mark Hessling.  a071130c95
+
+- If napms() was called with a negative value,  it would lock. 65dfa7e61a
+
+- Framebuffer/DRM port didn't redraw upon changing fonts if the new font
+  was the same size as the old one.  c714cd9bcc
+
+- wsetscrreg() required the cursor for the window to be positioned
+  between the 'top' and 'bottom' of the new scroll region.  5a0d5becee
+
+- wdeleteln() would delete the line currently under the cursor,  then
+  bring up lines down to the end of the current scroll region,  inserting
+  a blank line there.  It really should delete all the way to the bottom
+  of the window.  See also wmcbrine/PDCurses/issues/165.  b02f94fd3d
+
+- The 'picsview' demo had a possible buffer overrun error.  Reported and
+  fix proposed by Michael Knap.  fcd2dd0cb8
+
+- Plan9 port ran into a compile error due to different timekeeping
+  functions.  Also was missing a few demos and term.h.  1e8472cdbf
+
+- Removed an assert() in mvwin() when the window was moved outside the
+  screen area.  Some programs (including 'test_pan') assume they can try
+  moving a window,  then check the return value to see if it was actually
+  on screen.  c801354044
+
+- PDC_set_box_type() has been removed,  because it's an unneeded redundancy.
+  You can get double-lined or thick-lined boxes,  and/or rounded corners,
+  via the standard Curses wborder_set() function,  and it'll work with
+  ncurses and other libraries.  'test_pan' revised to provide an example
+  of how that's done.   f8d87ed549  099fa2876c
+
+- printw() overflowed a buffer when asked to output more than 512 bytes.
+  ddf80d010f
+
+- napms() rounded _up_ to the nearest clock tick on DOS and DOSVGA;  it now
+  rounds _to_ the nearest clock tick (with at least one tick being used).
+  Modified the documentation to reflect this.  785113f0b9
+
+- PDC_wcstombs() could overflow a buffer in the UTF8 decoding.  7d704dd618
+
+- DOS and DOSVGA builds failed on Digital Mars.  Several small fixes were
+  required.   981893b997  d22725b90a  32f22660c4  fd1ddf866c
+
+- Fixes for Borland Turbo C compilation. a59f452e78  26128c29aa
+  d6b7e998eb
+
+- panel_hidden() is now portable, returning TRUE (1) and FALSE (0) instead
+  of OK (0) and ERR (-1) This may break existing applications, so you possibly
+  want to check for the PDCursesMod build (PDC_BUILD < 4500).
+
+PDCursesMod 4.4.0 - 2023 November 30
+===================================
+
+   Note that because of SCREEN and WINDOW now being opaque,  the WA_
+flags and some A_ flags changing,  and KEY_MAX being redefined, this
+is _not_ binary compatible with 4.3.x.  However,  you'll get a link
+error if you get versions mixed up,  so this shouldn't cause any
+real trouble.
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+- The SCREEN and WINDOW structures are now opaque.  11671880e2
+  3259719b37
+
+- The WA_ flags are now distinct,  in builds with 64-bit chtypes and
+  attr_ts (the default).  This led to considerable documentation
+  changes and an attempt to make the distinction between WA_ macros
+  (for use with wattr_t) and A_ macros (for use with chtype) clearer.
+  Most implementations of curses have wattr_t == chtype,  including
+  PDCurses* and ncurses,  but you can't really rely on it.
+  78658c94cd
+
+- KEY_MAX was increased to reserve some key codes for future use.
+  16ac494c25
+
+- The FILE arguments passed to newterm() are now actually used on the
+  VT platform.  Changes by Pavel Stehule.  9c16db9589
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- SDL1,  SDL2,  and GL support double and triple mouse clicks.
+  From Lyle Tafoya.  a4e563d763
+
+- 'widetest' now tests copying of both precomposed and combining
+  characters with getcchar() and setcchar().  19169a1b18
+
+- VT flavor gets the correct initial screen size in Windows.
+  d62083a096
+
+- 'panels' library almost completely rewritten.  The new version is
+  better at figuring out what parts need to be updated,  and is
+  generally easier to understand.  8830b71392.
+
+- PDC_transform_line_sliced() used to break up lines to ensure that
+  PDC_transform_line() will not be fed packets of excessive size,  nor
+  packets that continue after fullwidth or combining characters.
+  This avoids buffer overruns and problems with mishandled characters.
+  cb8c87b287
+
+- 'testcurs' attribute test now lists which flags in term_attrs() are
+  set.  4da423c59e
+
+- Added some small test programs for very specific feature/bug tests.
+  e6a5edee79
+
+- You can set a 'thick' style for boxes/borders (wide-character builds
+  only).  5fd12f8ec9
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- WinGUI keyboard responsiveness could be poor if it wasn't getting
+  enough CPU share.  087c20cc87
+
+- Fixed a (very small) memory leak from reset_color_pairs.  9e236abb17
+
+- Fixed some ncurses demo failures,  due to incomplete HAVE_xxx
+  descriptions.  From William McBrine's PDCurses.  2d114bf406
+
+- Panels were only redrawn on window resizes if they overlapped other
+  panels,  and even then,  only the overlapping lines were redrawn.
+  e2b2205da6
+
+- Numeric keypad presses were duplicated on SDL2 and GL for Windows.
+  7c26ec92ed
+
+- The SDL2 makefile had a recursive definition of CC and PREFIX.
+  ac96c5511e
+
+- If the screen was resized,  either programmatically or by the user,
+  the "pseudo-panel" for that screen was not resized.  6b571be281
+
+- waddnwstr() could read characters one element past the array bounds.
+  (Theoretically fixed in commit c03e650a70,  but I'd messed it up.)
+  5735a1cb31
+
+- touchoverlap() un-touched some parts of the window that didn't
+  overlap.  5c0bc334f8
+
+- Line attributes were not reliably updated after PDC_set_line_color().
+  3b54290f13
+
+- Ripped-off lines did not necessarily work initially and always got
+  mangled when the screen was resized.  05e09e5368
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3.7 - 2023 June 17
+================================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+- SDL2 GL port,  from Julius Ikkala.  This is (on most systems)
+  faster than the "traditional" SDL2 port.  Many commits,  starting
+  at 4678131a39.
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- Support on Windows for Unicode input in the SMP (codepoints above
+  above 0xFFFF, for instance emojis.) 2050706649  75b62ea015
+
+- WinCon: supports full unicode output including SMP.  3ec63c9067
+  7089b2eae1  fac87bd938
+
+- WinCon, WinGUI can be cross-compiled for Windows on Arm.  158e8ae5b7
+
+- 'newtest': extended the SLK testing.  'newtest' and 'testcurs' now
+  use wget_wch( ) in wide builds,  so the actual character is shown on
+  input tests (instead of the multibyte stream).  'testcurs' gradient
+  example (showing colors beyond 256 palette entries) is a little more
+  logically set out.  c744e3ec03  7089b57d07
+
+- WinCon can support a 'default' (transparent) background.  81cbefbd4b
+
+- 'curspriv.h' modified to allow C++ compilation.  52a2fdf518
+
+- Clarified compatibility for ACS_ and WACS_ box characters,  and added
+  many missing aliases.  From a suggestion by Simon Sobisch.  e8f7b33bbf
+
+- Fixed warnings with OpenWATCOM.  We now compile with -we ("treat
+  warnings as errors").  f27369e93b  abbd8f5268  89e3426248
+
+- If you try to compile the DOS version with WIDE=Y,  you get an error
+  message explaining that wide characters don't work on that platform.
+  d07b884502
+
+- Now using ncurses-6.4 tests instead of 6.3.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- WinCon: Key modifiers were incorrectly cleared without a key event.
+  9229f08604
+
+- VT: Ctrl-Alt-letter input was off by one.  Hit,  say,  Ctrl-Alt-T,
+  and you'd get Ctrl-Alt-U.  65568582af
+
+- Fixed some casting issues with GetProcAddress( ) in Windows and a
+  deprecation warning with MinGW,  with considerable help from Arnold
+  Tremblay and Chuck Haatvedt.  Further work may be required (it works,
+  but pedantic compilation can get you warnings).  bbae4bb0e8  28cbcfcc34
+
+- CMake's list of demos is now up to date for DOS,  DOSVGA,  WinCon,
+  WinGUI.  Others to follow.  4f3dc96436
+
+- Pasting text from the clipboard was done with a buffer lacking room
+  for a null terminator,  resulting in a memory overwrite.  Reported by
+  nhmall (issue #295).  0a4e1e9065
+
+- realloc( ptr, 0); was assumed to free ptr and return NULL.  This is
+  usually true,  but isn't guaranteed and isn't true on FreeBSD,  and
+  caused an assert to be triggered in endwin().  abbb6de7de
+
+- 'terminfo' functions were not included in the DOSVGA builds,  nor in
+  WinCon when using the Microsoft VC makefile.  Also,  the WinCon Digital
+  Mars makefile was broken.  c51efbbf88
+
+- 'picsview' and 'mbrot' demos now work correctly with ncurses.  Some
+  unnecessary distinctions between PDCurses* and ncurses were removed.
+  89727917e7
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3.6 - 2023 April 12
+=================================
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- SDL2 can now show Unicode past 0xffff (Supplemental Multilingual
+  Planes).  602bc380f81
+
+- VT port supports output redirection.  a6618d94d7  6925d0f571
+  65939aaccd
+
+- WinGUI support DPI awareness,  for better font display on high-res
+  screens.  012e3d90f8
+
+- SDL1 and 2 and X11 support user handling of the window close button,
+  using PDC_set_function_key.  89b2287d66  791318dfaa
+
+- 'terminfo' functions (really stubs) are compiled and linked in for
+  all platforms.  ab1c007273  248146021e
+
+- Build support added for LLVM and Windows on ARM,  from Mioki.
+  158e8ae5b7  2fb65608b3  86c1296d89  4884ce2c6d
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- HiDPI support for WinGUI crashed (reported by Chuck Haatvedt),  fixed
+  by Casey Langen.  489f5d6317
+
+- Resizing 'ptest' caused it to move to the next panel display
+  in the series.  0ed72b9f91
+
+- Partial fix so that getch( ) will return byte codes,  expanding characters
+  beyond 256 into multi-byte strings.  bd50b2b2ab
+
+- Negative window sizes for newwin() and resize() were not error-checked,
+  resulting in segfaults.  c6c7f2d074
+
+- In Windows SDL2,  Alt-keystrokes were ignored (see wmcbrine/PDCurses#142).
+  Fix provided by Benjamin Adamson.  7f1e1bba34
+
+- In SDL2,  programmatic resizes caused further spurious resizes,
+  leading to KEY_RESIZE events.  b09c91ea15
+
+- Scrolling a window could result in a crash when the window was
+  freed.   72521a1697
+
+- Decoding UTF8 was broken for SMP.  ad7cd29a23
+
+- WinGUI could get confused if the window was resized,  resulting in
+  input being ignored.  bc340c0d20
+
+- Text selection & copying could cause memory corruption with 4 byte UTF-8
+  codepoints when WIDE=Y.  bff53ab114
+
+See the git log for more details.
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3.5 - 2022 November 27
+====================================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+- WinGUI is again single-threaded,  resulting in considerably simpler
+  code and fixing some resizing issues.  See pull request #240.
+  6962ab6e9d
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- Framebuffer port can now use either the (deprecated) Linux framebuffer
+  system or the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) system.  DRM is not
+  supported on some older systems and the Linux framebuffer is not
+  supported on newer ones.  DRM also can be used with *BSD;  the Linux
+  framebuffer really is a Linux-only solution.  e9bc09c083
+
+- GNU Makefiles for VT and framebuffer ports work out of the box on
+  FreeBSD.  2b5f0036fe
+
+- Much revision internal to the PDCursesMod library (no effect as far
+  as users of the library are concerned) to move static variables into
+  the SCREEN structure,  in a way that preserves binary compatibility
+  and keeps those variables opaque outside the library.  0d5e4dc5b4
+  3e167172ff  7449df5369
+
+- delwin() now returns ERR if you attempt to delete a window with
+  active subwindows,  or a window that wasn't allocated by PDCursesMod
+  or which has already been freed.  c643c0da95  3b14813dbb
+
+- delscreen() deletes all windows associated with a SCREEN.  26e473c60b
+
+- Made the PANEL and PANELOBS structures opaque.  f55e55a0fb  78039d10c3
+
+- Checking for key hits is much,  much faster on most platforms.
+  6612df5af6
+
+- Added ncurses extensions for opaque WINDOW structs,  from Markus Uhlin.
+  7bb822b2a4  22fecc1cf6
+
+- You can specify the library name during a GCC build with LIBNAME=(name)
+  and the shared library name with DLLNAME=(name).  Support is,  as yet,
+  incomplete,  but it should be possible to expand this to MSVC and
+  OpenWATCOM builds.   44e5aa323e
+
+- 'ptest' and 'speed' demos free all memory on exit.  This helps (slightly)
+  when testing with Valgrind.
+
+- On gcc and mingw builds for WinCon, WinGUI,  and VT,  one can run 'make
+  configure (options)' to revise 'curses.h' to use the specified options.
+  This may be extended to other compilers and platforms.  fe39e244d2
+  9c0f475287
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- In some situations,  cursor movement/changes were not immediately made
+  on VT and SDL2.  a805ec2b15  18abe3dbd5
+
+- Keyboard entry in SDL2 was defective for some numeric keypad hits,  and
+  shift-F(n) keys gave no response.  d87b7bd917  8a41f2ed57
+
+- PDC_free_memory_allocations() (see below) was unnecessary;  if we follow
+  the specifications for delscreen(),  as we now do,  all that memory
+  gets freed in the natural course of things.  0223039ec0  60138ca8ec
+
+- SDL2 had problems finding the default TrueType font on Rocky Linux 9
+  builds.  Mark Hessling added a bit of code so that a secondary default
+  path is specified;  if one path fails,  we try the other.  1e4bcc9676
+
+- SDL1 was similarly updated;  it also got some better default locations
+  for TrueType fonts on Windows and Apple,  borrowed from fixes that had
+  already been done for SDL2.  9cf041e835
+
+- Both SDL1 and SDL2 failed to free some memory when delscreen(SP) was
+  called.  The result was that you couldn't cleanly shut down curses
+  completely and restart it.  c62edf7752
+
+- Fixed some problems with Digital Mars compiles and added missing demos.
+  e798d30e63  4781b742b5  e39528f9e8  5efbea3676  aba598f492
+
+- wgetnstr() was broken on platforms where wint_t != wchar_t.  54bc1a16fb
+
+- AltCharSet display was broken in DOSVGA 8-bit character builds. e00e33650b
+
+- getch() and wget_wch() could return erroneous values in WinCon for values
+  greater than 127.  e54d03fc80  e86d9c3568
+
+- Made PDC_set_default_colors() an internal function.  Exposing it basically
+  amounted to a bug.  f1786064ee acd143144f
+
+- In SDLn in fullscreen mode,  mouse events near the bottom or right-hand
+  sides of the screen could trigger segfaults.   03eb51cefc
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3.4 - 2022 July 29
+================================
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- As a small step to avoiding direct access to the SCREEN structure
+  outside private PDCurses code,  added PDC_getbreak() and PDC_getecho()
+  functions to access SP->cbreak and SP->echo. 59bd4b5653  5da7c96fe8
+
+- You can free remaining internal buffers by calling the new
+  PDC_free_memory_allocations() function.  8d10534143  2259f29d5f
+  (Note that this has been reverted.)
+
+- On Linux,  we use the system-provided wcwidth() instead of our own.
+  Aside from avoiding redundant code,  this may help in non-Unicode
+  locales (our wcwidth() is for Unicode only).  fc520ca19f
+
+- PDC_wcwidth( ) updated from Unicode 5.0 to 14.0.0,  and now uses the
+  16-bit tables generated by uniset.  68b38102bc
+
+- When building SDL1 on OS/2,  Ctrl-(letter) and Alt-(letter) combinations
+  were not returned.  Pointed out and fix contributed by Mark Hessling.
+  2968f3198d
+
+- Mark also found some neglected VT key sequences and added them.
+  c47ce9f724
+
+- Windows clipboard functions consolidated in the 'common' directory.
+  This provides the clipboard code for the WinCon and WinGUI platforms,
+  and for VT when compiled in Windows.  It would probably work with SDL1
+  when compiled in Windows,  but that would need testing.  02d55b890e
+
+- putwin() should produce files that can be read by getwin() even if
+  the putting code and the getting code are compiled with different
+  chtypes (i.e.,  wide vs. narrow and 32-bit vs. 64-bit chtypes).
+  6824e49bab  98e3f56580
+
+- Miscellaneous code cleanup.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- CMake builds of SDL2 with WIDE=Y were not actually making wide builds.
+  797f688dd4  99e90f20c5  f6b73892c3
+
+- endwin() was not signal-safe.  While in endwin(),  we shouldn't free
+  memory or have debug logging on (we were doing both).  See "upstream"
+  issue wmcbrine/PDCurses#134 for discussion.  c5ca238fac  18ff2cb00c
+  8d10534143
+
+- WinGUI could block if there was no key delay (threading contention).
+  b84cf0cbb8
+
+- Alternative character set glyphs could be shown when they shouldn't
+  be,  or not shown when they should be. d6d338a8ee
+
+- Revised mouse click handling on VT.  The previous logic sometimes missed
+  double-clicks and could get confused with press/move/release.
+  93d0d931a0
+
+- VT platform missed some function keys on some platforms.  043ca72355
+
+- SDL2 got duplicated key presses if Shift-(numpad) keys were hit (issue #234).
+  9b86c29aa1
+
+- Fixed (I think) problem with AppVeyor failing to get OpenWATCOM 1.9 to
+  work,  causing almost every run to fail. cb59c93039  61929c222d  18abcfdbd6
+
+- wattr_on() and attr_on() ignored the 'opts' parameter.  When non-NULL,  it
+  should (and now is) treated as a pointer to an integer color pair.
+  23374b894b
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3.3 - 2022 May 25
+===============================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+- OS/2 code replaced with William McBrine's current version,  with some
+  modifications to accommodate PDCursesMod.  This basically means that
+  the OS/2 port works again (it was rather thoroughly broken).  0b3cbc038f
+  bd39b611288
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+- Clipboard handling is implemented in a common manner for DOS,  DOSVGA,
+  VT,  SDL1,  and framebuffer ports.  This means the VT and framebuffer
+  ports actually store the clipboard text in a buffer and can retrieve it,
+  instead of basically doing nothing at all.  050b3532e1 d97b6a4171
+
+- Two new demos,  'mbrot' (Mandelbrot display,  exercises some of the
+  more esoteric color/palette functions) and 'calendar' (shows a calendar).
+  cbd59aca60
+
+- Screen resizing no longer requires a call to resize_term(0,0).  No
+  one appears to know why that call was required in the first place.
+  Commit 3110e3f624.
+
+- The 'opts' parameter for certain functions,  heretofore ignored,  can
+  now be used to handle integer-sized color pair indices,  a la ncurses.
+  9be6bde504
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+- Color 8 defaulted to black on X11, WinGUI, Linux framebuffer,  and
+  the SDLn platforms.  It should be (and now is) a medium gray.
+  ab8b038dc9
+
+- Wide-character string input functions,  such as get_wstr(),  generated
+  display artifacts when fullwidth text was input.  549e4635e6
+
+- VT port handles Alt-letter + shift/control modifiers better,  setting
+  the appropriate modifier flags.  74b84cc28f
+
+- WinGUI now interprets Shift-numpad keys correctly.  eacd04d1aa
+
+- VT and framebuffer ports (again) capture Ctrl-C with an interrupt
+  handler.  Without this,  you could hit Ctrl-C and not have anything
+  actually happen until getch() was called,  so your code could hang
+  easily.  Ctrls-Z, S, Q are now enabled on both platforms.  cac097f235
+
+- If the screen was user-resized,  KEY_RESIZE was only returned if you'd
+  called `keypad( stdstr, 1)`.  That requirement appeared to be unneeded
+  and has been removed (see issue #230 on GitHub).  3110e3f624
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3.2 - 2022 February 06
+====================================
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+-  In 32-bit chtype,  non-wide-character builds,  you get 4096 color
+   pairs and all twelve attribute bits that you would get with any
+   64-bit chtype build.  d498305c35
+
+-  Color pair management for find_pair(), alloc_pair(), free_pair()
+   sped up considerably.  4d41c85101  864f02523d7
+
+-  'testcurs' modified to show A_DIM and to show supergradients when
+   possible.  dfb2387ff8
+
+-  Almost all ncurses demos are now built,  and this also now applies
+   to X11.  d742c1c708  e11eb4ed11
+
+-  Default framebuffer font now includes all WCS/WACS glyphs.  88fbc83b29
+   41ab7af534
+
+-  X11,  VT,  and framebuffer ports all compile with full warnings and
+   -Werror.   eabeb4cb99  fa98024a54  3c77a5b569
+
+-  New 'widetest' demo exercises getcchar() and setcchar(),  neither of
+   which actually got tested at all in other demos.  This was actually
+   added in 4.3.1,  though it wasn't built by default in most ports.
+   0a815ea432  9dbd63846b  a75727c5b2  4cd9338b56
+
+-  Automated builds on Windows now include the VT platform (commits
+   ceeb2de9e5,  6c3791f447).  But VT codes are indifferently supported
+   by Microsoft;  use of it is deprecated,   with WinCon or WinGUI being
+   suggested instead (commit d6e517eb36).
+
+-  The 'mangling' of initscr() (see curses.h) that was done to ensure that
+   library version errors would be caught at link time is now done to
+   'endwin()' instead.  We can really do either,  but it turns out that
+   some build processes rely on initscr() being unmangled.  1e19a2eb96
+
+-  PDC_set_function_key( ) is not really platform dependent.  This eliminated
+   some redundant code and enabled Ctrl-C to be returned on WinGUI and WinCon.
+   Added a corresponding PDC_get_function_key( ).  95b0843f69
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+-  VT and framebuffer ports returned 10 for Enter and Ctrl-M,
+   instead of 13,  and ignored ^C and ^Z.  Fixed by Mark Hessling (issue #225
+   and pull request #227).  0dace8c90e  ab0da09435
+
+-  WinCon port could mangle attributes for non-ANSI characters.  It
+   still can (unavoidably so),  but the damage no longer extends to
+   adjacent ANSI characters.  Partly from a fix made by William
+   McBrine to PDCurses.  6553e40a37
+
+-  Removed completely meaningless PDC_MOUSE_POSITION and MOUSE_POS_REPORTS
+   macros.  See issue wmcbrine/PDCurses#129.  b4e7429976
+
+-  The terminfo dummy functions were not exported in shared library/DLL
+   builds.  Fix by Simon Sobisch.  e8723349de  24ffa99b03
+
+-  DOS alternative character set (ACS) was improperly displayed.  5db85b1157
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3.1 - 2021 November 28
+====================================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+-  Added a Linux framebuffer port.   dd5b99ce81 and many others.
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+-  Added the ncurses extension WACS_T_* (thick-line box character)
+   alternate character set defines.     5cefe5fa00
+
+-  Added four ncurses demos.  948f4cf41d
+
+-  Eliminated CHTYPE_LONG and CHTYPE_64.  Neither is really needed
+   anymore;  we just have CHTYPE_32.  e275cadd78  91b0b0dd5d
+
+-  It should now be difficult,  if not impossible,  to link code for
+   one PDCursesMod binary API to code for another.  7e06e8c264
+
+-  Palette changes are redrawn immediately.  That was already true for
+   DOS and 8-bit framebuffer ports,  where the palette has a hardware
+   meaning;  it's now true in X11,  VT,  WinGUI,  etc.   e73cae9b2c
+
+-  mmask_t can now be 64 bits (and by default,  it is).  This enables
+   some unsnarling of mouse mask #defines and gets rid of the collision
+   of triple-clicks with mouse move events,  and provides bits for
+   future use.  908f1b3d32
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+-  Pads were incorrectly refreshed (issue wmcbrine/PDCurses#124).
+   41da0b2fb8  9de6c83cd9
+
+-  Odd input issue in WinCon (and presumably WinGUI);  see issue
+   wmcbrine/PDCurses#126.  This may be revisited.   64d727571e
+
+-  Background was improperly refreshed in pads.  See wmcbrine/PDCurses#122.
+   b31f19f477
+
+-  SDL2 window could be shown improperly initialized at startup.  9d30ffa6db
+
+-  Ctrl-C stops the program in X11 and SDLn if noraw() has been called.  The
+   framebuffer,  VT,  and WinGUI ports already did this.  210d49f48a
+
+-  Surrogate pairs and combining characters are now handled correctly in the
+   setcchar() and getcchar() functions.  3ef0592cfe  422bb2152e
+
+-  X11 could block on getch() if nodelay() and PDC_set_blink() were both set
+   to TRUE.  Fixes issue #216.  e20301ae19
+
+-  Fixed assert errors in SDL2 at startup.  See issue #215.  5ee7cc0722
+
+PDCursesMod 4.3 - 2021 August 25
+========================================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+-  SDLs and X11 ports now support full colors,  a la WinGUI and VT.
+   a266f923ee, b63b36f9b8, fee4af28c8, 8606b96111
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+-  ncurses tests build correctly again.  Moved to ncurses-6.2 tests,
+   and they can now be built on VT,  WinCon,  and WinGUI (they already
+   worked with X11 and SDLn).  f8dd18c0f2 4a71b26dd1 c8b67969d6
+   edd97f38fd 68f1f1c299
+
+-  Added ncurses extension functions find_pair(), alloc_pair(), free_pair()
+   (see commit 19c14525e2) and reset_color_pairs() (534f24f547).
+
+-  To test the above ncurses extensions,  added support to build
+   'demo_new_pair' from the ncurses tests (commit d8951fadc9) and
+   a new PDCursesMod-specific 'init_col' demo (commit 7b4d38a0ee).
+   The latter also tests out handling of default colors and the
+   ability to preserve the screen background... which appears to
+   only work in the VT flavor,  and imperfectly there.
+
+-  SDLs now have strikeout and overlined text.  91b280f442  So does X11
+   5e5cd29617
+
+-  SDLs now recognize some 'extended' media keys.  5e10ef17fc
+
+-  SDLs and VT can be compiled as shared libraries and installed/uninstalled.
+   b78cd8a33f bb8d408675 d0309c2963
+
+-  VT has strikeout text in xterm,  some (not many) others.
+   05af0c6810
+
+-  Removed unnecessary 'extended' key definitions.  b9fafe60f1
+
+-  Code compiles with -Wextra -pedantic on many flavors without warnings.
+   674512453a, 6ad85268c5, 2648cdf5cd, others.
+
+-  Some tests done using GitHub's CI.  3cb1b5f1bf,  several following
+   commits.
+
+-  New PDC_set_box_type( ) function to allow boxes/lines to be drawn using
+   the doubled-line characters.  Modified 'test_pan.c' to demonstrate the
+   new function.  ab7bad3981  dd981b0e78
+
+-  WinGUI,  WinCon beep() is now in a separate thread,  so we don't
+   hang the program while the beeping takes place.  a6212d94d2
+
+-  WinCon can be compiled for 32-bit chtypes.
+
+-  Added a PDC_set_default_colors( ) function.  Some platforms expect
+   particular background/foreground colors by default.  This lets you set
+   those colors.  (Note that this should have been,  and was made,  an
+   internal function;  programs should use 'assume_default_colors()'.)
+   b642c91279
+
+-  In Windows,  one can use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to copy/paste,  instead of
+   Ctrl-Shift-C/Ctrl-Shift-V.   9f487d4fea
+
+-  Added assert()s on many NULL parameters.  Calling with such parameters
+   is permitted,  but usually indicates bugs that should result in an assertion
+   when in debugging mode.  96f4984f9f
+
+-  In DOSVGA,  as in X11,  WinGUI,  and the SDLs,  you can specify an
+   initial screen size using resize_screen() before actually starting PDCurses.
+   0623c44ff0
+
+-  _tracef(), trace(), curses_trace() added for ncurses compatibility.  This
+   doesn't (as yet) actually add any capabilities;  it just lets you access
+   existing capabilities in the same way you would if using ncurses.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+-  WinCon and WinGUI key tables didn't go far enough and could crash if some
+   unusual key codes were received.  See wmcbrine/PDCurses issue #118 (this
+   is mostly a copy of wmcbrine's fix as suggested by zingchen).   fe124295be
+   59aa2afce9
+
+-  SDL2 display did not update after restoring from iconified form.
+   2bb4284597
+
+-  Both SDLs crashed if a background image was shown,  due to an out-of-bounds
+   array access.  e19ea211fc fbf4ea1fec
+
+-  DOS PDC_napms() failed for times greater than 18 minutes (would round
+   time down to nearest multiple of 18 min).  acc1fa72fa
+
+-  Buffer could overrun on extremely large (more than 512 column) displays
+   in X11 (91b280f442), WinCon (51327cad4d)
+
+-  Certain extended keys could crash WinCon, WinGUI.  d747d35ed8
+
+-  Plugged some memory leaks in X11.  Much more to be done.  cb4344a163
+
+-  In VT flavor,  the mix of printfs() and (unbuffered) write() calls
+   wasn't interrupt-safe,  and led to some corruption in the output.  This
+   is now fixed. 365b6cce79
+
+-  Some cursor shapes in VT were mixed up.  1f1bbe7d8a
+
+-  Fixes for SDL2 font colors when using non-mono bitmaps.  e2b2874e76
+   d9306c09db
+
+-  Computation of the font width in X11 was wrong,  leading to misaligned
+   text.  This also mangled the code that checks that the bold and italic
+   fonts are the same size as the 'normal' font.   54d721cafe
+
+-  X11 mouse handling ignored mouse moves,  sometimes suppressed Ctrl/Alt/
+   Shift modifiers,  and the logic was confusing;  other bugs may have
+   lurked in there.   cfd7f64b95
+
+-  Input in WinCon,  when compiled in narrow (8-bit,  non-PDC_WIDE) mode,
+   could be mangled.  Shamelessly copied wmcbrine's fix from the commit
+   in PDCurses e28e705d17438ffd (q.v.).   83dcf79672
+
+PDCursesMod 4.2 - 2020 Oct 03
+=============================
+
+Major new features
+------------------
+
+-  Pulled in almost all of William McBrine's 3.8 and 3.9 changes.
+   These include the single-process X11 port (much simpler and
+   less prone to bugs),  common copy/paste,  some extended colors,
+   and much other good work from wmcbrine over the last few years.
+
+-  See history entries for versions 3.8 and 3.9 below for details.
+
+-  Added chasonr's DOSVGA port and Federico G. Benavento and Jens
+   Staal's Plan 9 port.
+
+-  Automated builds again work and have been extended to new platforms.
+
+-  Added ncurses-style init_extended_color(), init_extended_pair(),
+   extended_color_content(),  extended_pair_content() functions.
+   VT and WinGUI versions can now access 2^20 = over a million color
+   pairs and 2^24+256 = 16777472 colors.  This should be extended
+   to SDLx and X11,  and possibly WinCon.
+
+-  As a result of all this,  A_RGB is now completely gone (and not
+   really needed anyway).
+
+-  Attempts to mis-link a wide-character library to code compiled for
+   8-bit characters,  or a mismatch of a 32-bit chtype library to
+   64-bit chtype code,  etc.,  will usually result in an undefined
+   variant of initscr.  (Previously,  everything would compile,  then
+   crash or produce odd output when the program was run.)  See GitHub
+   issue #133.
+
+-  Added 'picsview' demo,  something of a ripoff/homage to Thomas
+   E. Dickey's 'picsmap' demo for ncurses.  It has a similar purpose:
+   demonstrating the functions in the above paragraph and the new
+   ability to access lots and lots of colors.
+
+-  HISTORY.md brought up to date for 4.2 (which meant bringing in
+   changes for 3.8 and 3.9).  Also,  4.1.0 was almost completely
+   undocumented.
+
+Minor new features
+------------------
+
+-  Name changed from 'PDCurses' to 'PDCursesMod',  in hopes of
+   simultaneously making its origin clear and also making it clear
+   that it's somewhat modified from the parent project.
+
+-  Makefiles are better organized and more 'standard'.  'make' builds
+   the PDCurses library,  'make demos' all demos.  The .mif files are
+   all now in the 'common' directory.
+
+-  VT port is much faster,  mostly thanks to not writing data to
+   stdout with no buffering and with printf().  It also will use
+   SGR mouse commands if available,  which makes things more bullet
+   proof in cases of confused mouse input,  and means windows can
+   be more than 224 columns wide without crashes happening when
+   the mouse reaches that column.
+
+-  Added ncurses extension functions ceiling_panel() and
+   ground_panel().
+
+-  'speed' demo tests out speed of the code.
+
+-  'test_pan' allows one to move panels around the screen and adjust
+   the panel depth.
+
+-  Added ability to change SDL1/SDL2 font rendering mode by setting
+   pdc_sdl_render_mode
+
+Bug fixes and such
+------------------
+
+-  Valgrind found three small memory leaks in the VT port (which
+   would apply to all other ports as well).  There are still more
+   leaks in other ports,  which should be addressed.
+
+-  Double-clicking in WinGUI got you a click message followed by
+   a double-click.  This does conform to 'standard' Windows practice,
+   but was both stupid and did _not_ conform with the way VT did
+   it,  nor the way I'd want it to be on any port.  To do : enable
+   double and triple clicks on all ports,  not just VT and WinGUI.
+
+-  Handling of default background/foreground in VT was just plain
+   wrong.  Now fixed.
+
+-  Mouse wheel events now report the correct mouse position,  instead
+   of always reporting (-1, -1).
+
+-  Fixed spurious resize events at startup and for window moves on
+   the X11 platform.
+
+-  raw() and noraw() now work as specified on WinGUI and VT.  (They
+   still don't work on X11,  SDLn,  or WinCon.)
+
+-  User shrinking of the screen to a degree causing a window to be
+   partly off-screen caused a crash.  (In PDCurses,  windows are
+   theoretically always on-screen;  we were not properly prepared
+   for the possibility that the screen might shrink and put windows
+   partly or totally off-screen.)  We no longer crash,  and the part
+   of the window that is still on-screen is refreshed correctly.
+
+See the git log for more details.
+
+PDCurses 4.1.0 - 2019-05-10
+=========================
+
+New features
+------------
+
+- VT backend improved to support different cursors,  mouse move events,
+  and Ctrl/Alt/Shift flags.
+
+- Fixes to allow WinCon builds on platforms lacking INFOEX struct.
+
+- Improved DOS napms to convert milliseconds to BIOS ticks accurately.
+
+- Followed wmcbrine's 'rebranding' of Public Domain Curses to PDCurses.
+
+See the git log for more details.
+
+PDCurses 4.0.4 - 2019-01-20
+=========================
+
+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 wide 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
+
+See the git log for more details.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 4.0.2 - 2017-09-12
+=========================
+
+Major new features:
+-------------------
+
+- New Win32a(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 Win32a and mostly supported in X11, SDL1 and SDL2.
+
+- In Win32a, one can choose a font, and both programmatic and user
+  resizing are supported.  (Recompiling is necessary to change the
+  font in X11.)
+
+- (Win32a 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, Win32a, 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 Win32a and X11 of various shapes (this could be
+  extended to SDLx eventually).
+
+- In X11 and Win32a, 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 Win32a.  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.
+
+See the git log for more details.
+
+PDCurses 3.9 - 2019-09-04
+=========================
+
+IMPORTANT NOTE: This is actually wmcbrine's 3.9 version.  Its
+changes did not actually make it into this fork until 4.1 and 4.2.
+
+768 colors, single-process X11, copy-and-paste for all, and more.
+
+New features
+------------
+
+- Single-process, single-thread version of the X11 port. Much, much
+  faster than the two-process version. Needs more testing. This version
+  omits translations.
+
+- A common copy-and-paste system for all platforms, based on the
+  PDC_*clipboard() functions. (This is the first time copy-and-paste is
+  available for the SDL ports, and it replaces the old X11-specific
+  C&P.) Press and hold button 1 while selecting; paste with button 2.
+  Add Shift if mouse events are activated in curses. You can also paste
+  via Shift-Ctrl-V, and copy with Shift-Ctrl-C (although selecting
+  already sets the buffer). Note that paste is implemented via
+  ungetch(), and is currently limited to 256 characters at a time. (You
+  can get more via PDC_getclipboard().) With some ports (e.g. Wincon),
+  the existing terminal C&P mechanism may override PDCurses'. DOS and
+  SDL1 can only C&P within the same app.
+
+- A new maximum of 768 colors, for Wincon, SDL and X11. COLOR_PAIRS is
+  still limited to 256. The idea is that each pair can have a unique
+  foreground and background, without having to redefine any of the first
+  256 (predefined) colors. Colors 256-767 have no initial definitions,
+  and are intended to be set via init_color(). An example has been added
+  to testcurs (loosely based on part of newtest, by Bill Gray).
+
+- Wincon now allows redefinition of all 768 colors, and allows it even
+  under ConEmu.
+
+- True italics for ConEmu. (It seems it should also support true bold,
+  but I couldn't make that work.)
+
+- Added new functions from ncurses and/or NetBSD: has_mouse(),
+  is_keypad(), is_leaveok(), is_pad(), set_tabsize(), touchoverlap(),
+  underscore(), underend(), wunderscore(), and wunderend(). See the man
+  pages for descriptions. Partly due to Karthik Kumar Viswanathan, and
+  suggestions of Simon Sobisch.
+
+Bug fixes and such
+------------------
+
+- Check for standard C++ (>= 98), where native bool should exist, and use
+  that; otherwise (pre-/non-standard C++) fall back to the old behavior.
+  Satisfies clang, hopefully doesn't mess anything else up.
+
+- Recent versions of clang throw an error over "-install_name".
+
+- Most curses functions assumed a valid SP (i.e. that initscr() had
+  already been called). Now, instead, they return ERR or other
+  appropriate values. Suggestion of S.S.
+
+- Deprecated PDC_save_key_modifiers() -- there's no benefit to NOT
+  saving them.
+
+- Hold back screen updates due to palette changes until paused; always
+  do this update now (previously only in X11 and SDL, seems necessary in
+  Windows 10 1903).
+
+- SDL2 windows were freezing on moving to another screen (reported by
+  Mark Hessling). Still issues with moving between screens of different
+  scaling.
+
+- Find the X libraries in some additional locations. After M.H.
+
+- Converted default X11 icons to XPM, fixing their non-display in Ubuntu.
+
+- Made XIM standard, removed "classic" X11 compose system.
+
+- Made wide-character build the default for X11 (--disable-widec for
+  narrow).
+
+- Smoother resizing in X11, when not in scrollbar mode.
+
+- Dropped X11 options "borderWidth" (broken since at least 2.7) and
+  "cursorColor" (now set automatically for contrast).
+
+- Correctly restore Insert mode and QuickEdit mode in Wincon's
+  PDC_reset_shell_mode(). Patch by "vyv03354".
+
+- Add a WINDRES variable to wincon/Makefile for the sake of cross-
+  compilers. Patch by Marc-Andre Lureau.
+
+- Suppress cursor movement during color tests in testcurs.
+
+- Added UTF-8-demo.txt for tuidemo to browse (by default, only in forced
+  UTF-8 mode). File by Markus Kuhn.
+
+- Moved the doc files from "man" to "docs" -- the docs/man thing was too
+  confusing. Streamlined the web page into two files.
+
+- Rewrote the "Portability" sections of the man pages to reflect current
+  ncurses and NetBSD. The old charts weren't very accurate.
+
+- Document resolution of timeout() and napms(). Suggested by S.S.
+
+- Rewrote manext (again) in Awk.
+
+- Changed most dates to ISO format.
+
+See the git log (for both PDCursesMod and for wmcbrine's PDCurses,  the
+original source of these changes) for more details.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 3.8 - 2019-02-02
+=========================
+
+IMPORTANT NOTE: This is actually wmcbrine's 3.8 version.  Its
+changes did not actually make it into this fork until 4.1.
+
+It's that time again.
+
+
+New features
+------------
+
+- PDC_VERSION structure and PDC_get_version() function, to provide run-
+  time information on version and compile options, in case they don't
+  match the header; along with new compile-time defines PDC_VER_MAJOR,
+  PDC_VER_MINOR and PDC_VERDOT. Suggested by Simon Sobisch, designed
+  partly after Bill Gray and partly after SDL_VERSION.
+
+- Extensive documentation revisions, now covering many previously
+  undocumented functions.
+
+- Allow building the DLL with MinGW for SDL. (This also changes the
+  non-DLL library name from libpdcurses.a to pdcurses.a.)
+
+- Consolidated Watcom makefiles for DOS, after Tee-Kiah Chia; added
+  MODEL option to Makefile.bcc for consistency.
+
+- Added another ncurses_test, "lrtest"; updated for ncurses 6.1.
+
+
+Bug fixes and such
+------------------
+
+- T.H.'s update rect clipper (a resize fix for SDL2) broke sdltest,
+  because it didn't take the offsets into account for a non-owned
+  window.
+
+- The version number is now hardwired only in curses.h and configure.ac.
+
+- Revised pdcurses.rc to correctly show all fields when checking the
+  properties on a DLL; use it with MinGW as well as MSVC.
+
+- Allow building both 32- and 64-bit SDL2 versions in MinGW without
+  editing the Makefile, by using the proper dev package.
+
+- Build SDL2 demos in "Windows" mode (i.e. no controlling terminal) with
+  MSVC, as with MinGW.
+
+- Build sdltest.exe with MSVC.
+
+- Changed sample pathname in tuidemo to always use slashes -- the
+  backslashes failed in, e.g., SDL under Linux or macOS. Patch by B.G.
+
+- Warning fix for Borland OS/2.
+
+- Minor file reorganization / renaming.
+
+- mmask_t is now used in both the classic and ncurses mouse interfaces,
+  and is defined in such a way as to keep it at 32 bits.
+
+- Dropped map_button() and getbmap().
+
+- Dropped the ability to build BBS-ready archives from the Makefiles.
+
+- Made manext.py compatible with Python 3.x.
+
+See the git log (for both PDCursesMod and for wmcbrine's PDCurses,  the
+original source of these changes) for more details.
+
+PDCurses 3.7 - 2018-12-31
+=========================
+
+New features
+------------
+
+- Avoid conflict with ncurses by having apps define PDC_NCMOUSE before
+  including curses.h to invoke the ncurses-style mouse interface,
+  instead of NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION. (The old way will also still work.)
+  After Simon Sobisch (see PR #33).
+
+- In SDL (TTF mode), the box-drawing and block ACS characters are now
+  rendered in a font-independent way, to ensure their correct alignment
+  across cells. Underlining is now handled in a similar way.
+
+- TTF fonts in SDL are now rendered in Blended mode instead of Solid.
+  Partly after Joachim de Groot.
+
+- New default fonts and font sizes for SDL/TTF.
+
+- SDL2 now builds under MSVC. Partly due to Alexandru Afrasinei.
+
+- Documentation re-org -- more Markdown internal links; moved to man/
+  dir (the doc/ dir name was too similar to docs/, which is needed for
+  GitHub Pages hosting); concatenated man page document now made
+  permanent, under the name MANUAL.md; new man build utils; merged
+  sdl.md and x11.md into their respective READMEs; changed some
+  redundant and unclear comments.
+
+- Directory re-org -- in addition to the above, created common/, to
+  unclutter the root, and eliminate a few more redundant files from
+  platform directories. (We already had "pdcurses", but that's for the
+  portable core; "common" is for files that are more platform-specific,
+  though shared by more than one platform.)
+
+- Broke out the redundant ACS tables and moved them to common/.
+
+- PDcurses' "bool" type is now based on stdbool.h, when available. There
+  should be no conflicts when including stdbool.h either before or after
+  curses.h.
+
+- The demos are no longer built by default, since they add a lot of time
+  to the build, and often aren't wanted. But you can still build them via
+  "make demos" (tweak as needed).
+
+- Makefile tweaks for cross-compiling by Simon Sobisch.
+
+
+Bug fixes and such
+------------------
+
+- Improved Windows console resizing, when reducing the vertical size.
+  After Ulf Magnusson. (See GitHub issue #26.)
+
+- Bring back ifdef'd CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFOEX, for the benefit of
+  older compile environments. (Not automatic -- must specify INFOEX=N on
+  the command line.) After Simon Sobisch.
+
+- Replaced COMMON_LVB_* with numbers to appease some old compilers.
+  After Simon Sobisch.
+
+- KEY_RESIZE should be key_code = TRUE. Reported by Ulf Magnusson.
+
+- SDL2 resize fixes to prevent crashes, by Tim Hentenarr.
+
+- SDL2 fixes for handling of SDL_TEXTINPUT, keys with modifiers, and
+  modifier keystrokes, by Tim Hentenarr.
+
+- Fixed cursor rendering in SDL/TTF.
+
+- SDL1 support is now dropped for Windows and macOS, and deprecated for
+  Linux. Use SDL2. The SDL1 port is likely to be dropped in the future.
+
+- The setsyx() function is now void, after ncurses, and simplified.
+
+- Warning fixes by Patrick Georgi and Stefan Reinauer.
+
+- X11 used SP->resized in a non-boolean way, so it's now a short.
+
+- Under some conditions (see issue #47), the X11 port could "free" colors
+  that it hadn't allocated. Reported by rin-kinokocan.
+
+- New scroller for ozdemo -- no memory allocation, less copying -- to
+  resolve issue #46.
+
+- Various minor Makefile tweaks.
+
+- Eliminated term.h and terminfo.c, and moved mvcur() to move.c. These
+  stub functions, done on request (with others then requesting that I
+  take them away -- can't win), were a misguided attempt to facilitate
+  using PDCurses with certain non-C languages -- which, apparently, they
+  didn't end up actually doing. They're also, regrettably, specified as
+  part of the X/Open curses standard, even though they in effect
+  describe an entirely different interface layer (one on which
+  traditional curses, but not PDCurses, is built).
+
+- Dropped support for short (16-bit) chtypes.
+
+- Finally removed deprec.c, as it promised.
+
+- Dropped the XOPEN, SYSVcurses and BSDcurses defines from curses.h, as
+  well as NULL (which is defined in stdio.h, included). TRUE, FALSE, ERR
+  and OK are now defined unconditionally.
+
+- Moved pdcurses.org hosting to GitHub -- as a result, the site is now
+  part of the repo, in the docs/ directory. (Also, it has SSL again.)
+
+See the git log for more details.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 3.6 - 2018-02-14
+=========================
+
+[Note : this is a copy of wmcbrine's update history for that version.
+The changes involved have,  however,  now been integrated into
+this fork.]
+
+Tidying up some loose ends from 3.5, and trying to bring all platforms
+up to the same level, as much as possible.
+
+New features
+------------
+
+- 256 colors for the Windows console -- under Windows 10 or ConEmu,
+  only. This version doesn't allow init_color() or color_content() for
+  colors 16-255, just uses Windows' predefined palette (which matches
+  xterm-256color, like the default colors in X11 and SDL).
+
+- Real blinking for the Windows console (all), and for OS/2 -- done in
+  software, like the Windows version -- replacing the erraticly working
+  Vio-based version (which didn't work at all in my OS/2 4.5 VM). OS/2
+  now always has 16 colors, and bright backgrounds can combine with
+  blinking.
+
+- In DOS, OS/2 and Windows, attribute behavior now more closely matches
+  that of the more "advanced" ports (X11 and SDL) -- see the Attribute
+  test in testcurs.
+
+- All of the A_* and WA_* attributes from X/Open are now defined in
+  curses.h, although some are no-ops, pending the availablity of more
+  attribute bits. A_INVIS is now a no-op on all platforms, instead of
+  overloading A_ITALIC, and so is A_PROTECT. A_LEFT and A_RIGHT are now
+  synonyms for PDCurses' old *LINE attributes.
+
+
+Bug fixes and such
+------------------
+
+- For the X11 port, "make install" and the dynamic library build were
+  broken, since the configure move. Fixes partly after Mark Hessling.
+
+- Renamed "win32" to the more accurate/descriptive "wincon" (i.e.
+  WINdows CONsole). Makefiles for all platforms renamed to remove the
+  redundant platform names, and to allow better sorting.
+
+- In SDL2, apps that didn't explicitly handle resizing locked up. Now,
+  they can continue running, at their old size. (To Do: xmas is still a
+  basket case.)
+
+- Added "/MACHINE:$(PLATFORM)" to wincon/Makefile.vc -- Thomas Dickey
+  says this is needed to build 64-bit with Visual Studio Express 2012.
+  With 2017, it suppresses a warning.
+
+- Suppressed "Possibly incorrect assignment" warnings with BCC, which
+  also results in more readable code.
+
+- Cleaned up obsolete comments, dead code, unneeded includes, typos, and
+  outdated documentation.
+
+- Dropped support for EMXVIDEO.
+
+- Dropped color remapping for OS/2 (broken).
+
+- Dropped X11 DLL support for Cygwin (broken).
+
+- Rearranged extended color display in testcurs.
+
+- In ptest, handle resizing, and check for screens too small to run in.
+
+- Allow KEY_* codes (including KEY_RESIZE) to exit firework, as other
+  keys do.
+
+- Slightly faster Windows compilation (most noticeable in Watcom).
+
+See the git log for more details.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 3.5 - 2018-01-15
+=========================
+
+So, it's been a while, eh?
+
+This release is an attempt to bring PDCurses mostly up to date, without
+breaking too many things in the process.
+
+
+New features
+------------
+
+- SDL2 port, and TTF and Unicode support for both SDL1 and SDL2. Credit
+  for these goes mostly to Laura Michaels and Robin Gustafsson.
+
+- 256 colors for SDL and X11, by Bill Gray. Colors 16-255 are set up to
+  match xterm colors, but can be redefined, as with 0-15.
+
+- Bold and italic font options for SDL and X11. A_BOLD's behavior is
+  controlled by the new function PDC_set_bold() -- TRUE to select bold
+  font, FALSE to choose high foregound intensity (as before). Italic
+  fonts are selected by A_ITALIC (always on). X11 originally from Mark
+  Hessling.
+
+- Real blinking in SDL and X11, controlled by PDC_set_blink(). Largely
+  due to Kevin Lamonte and Bill Gray.
+
+- Support for A_UNDERLINE, A_LEFTLINE and A_RIGHTLINE in the Windows
+  console. This requires a recent version of Windows (10, maybe 8?) to
+  work with the standard console, but underlining also works with
+  ConEmu, at least as far back as XP.
+
+- User resizing (i.e. grab window edges or maximize button) for Windows
+  console -- needs recent Windows or ConEmu.
+
+- New-style color-changing code for the Windows console (using the new
+  offical API instead of undocumented functions), supporting
+  redefinition of colors 0-15 via init_color(). Works at least as far
+  back as Windows XP SP3. Patch by "Didrole".
+
+- The Windows console port now creates a separate console buffer by
+  default, making for a cleaner and more complete restoration of the
+  original buffer. The old behavior can be used by setting
+  "PDC_RESTORE_SCREEN=0". Patch by Jason Hood.
+
+- Left/right scroll wheel support for Windows console, SDL and X11. X11
+  by Mark Hessling.
+
+- testcurs now includes an additional test to show various attributes,
+  and a display of the extended colors, where applicable.
+
+
+Bug fixes and such
+------------------
+
+- termattrs() now returns something vaguely resembling the actual
+  capabilities of the specific "terminal". Specifically, A_BOLD and
+  A_BLINK reflect the availability of true bold fonts, and real
+  blinking; when not set in termattrs(), the attributes still work, but
+  control foreground and background intensity, as before. *LINE are also
+  meaningful, and even A_COLOR is set (or not).
+
+- pad size check in pnoutrefresh() was broken since 3.0. Reported by
+  Peter Hull.
+
+- In newpad(), begx and begy should be set to zero, otherwise creating a
+  subpad of the same width or height fails due to the check in subpad().
+  Patch by Raphael Assenat.
+
+- More straightforward math for subpad(), plus another off-by-one error.
+  Reported by Werner Wenzel, John Hartmann et al.
+
+- New subwindows/subpads/resized windows should copy _delayms. Patch by
+  "xaizek".
+
+- Potentially invalid saved cursor position in resize_window() --
+  another off-by-one _maxx/_maxy error. Patch after "Luke-Jr".
+
+- copywin() needs to disallow corner values equal to _maxx or _maxy, not
+  just less than. Reported by "Aleksandr".
+
+- Misaligned soft-label keys in 4-4-4 mode. Reported by Werner Wenzel.
+
+- Missing prototypes for bkgrnd() and bkgrndset().
+
+- Missing WA_NORMAL and WA_ATTRIBUTES from the X/Open spec.
+
+- keyname() and termname() now return static buffers, as documented.
+
+- In the X11 port, due to (post-PDCurses-3.4) changes in Xt,
+  XtAppMainLoop() always hung. Fixed by re-implementing it within
+  PDCurses, basically.
+
+- Fix blinking X11 cursor for clients that call move() more frequently
+  than cursorBlinkRate -- patch by Kevin Lamonte.
+
+- Improved cursor rendering for X11, by John P. Hartmann.
+
+- ALT key combos sometimes not reported in X11, per Mark Hessling et al.
+
+- Support for XK_ISO_Left_Tab in X11, by John P. Hartmann.
+
+- Support for "Super" keys in X11, by Bill Gray.
+
+- Make xcurses-config include -DPDC_WIDE when appropriate, per M.H.
+
+- The configure script and accompanying files, which were always
+  specific only to the X11 port (causing considerable confusion), have
+  been moved to the x11 directory.
+
+- In SDL, SP->key_code wasn't being set for KEY_MOUSE events. Reported
+  by Bill Gray.
+
+- SDL events need to keep pumping through non-input delays. (Really
+  messed up on current macOS before this change.)
+
+- SDL2 is outperforming SDL1 by about 10x on the platforms I've tried
+  that support both, so I've removed Makefile.mng from the SDL1 port.
+
+- Updated for the most current compilers, wherever possible; various
+  warning suppressions. All included makefiles were tested with their
+  respective compilers, shortly before release (including the POSIX
+  stuff on macOS with clang, and on Ubuntu Linux with gcc). The oldest
+  compiler I tested with was Turbo C++ 3.0, from 1992; the latest,
+  several compilers from 2017.
+
+- Dropped support for LCC-Win32 -- the official site is shut down.
+
+- Dropped support for Digital Mars -- not updated since 2014, limited
+  makefile, library missing some needed Windows APIs.
+
+- Dropped MS C for DOS, and Cset/2 for OS/2.
+
+- Dropped support for building DLLs with EMX.
+
+- Minor code and makefile reorganization; mingwin32.mak merged into
+  gccwin32.mak (i.e. you can use it with both compilers). Some
+  contributions by Bill Gray and Simon Sobisch.
+
+- Watcom makefile paths and option markers changed to Unix-friendly
+  style, after Tee-Kiah Chia.
+
+- The *.def files are no longer needed, replaced by more PDCEX
+  declarations in the include files. After Bill Gray and Simon Sobisch.
+
+- When building with DEBUG=Y, no longer strip the executables. After
+  Simon Sobisch.
+
+- Hold debug file ("trace") open after traceon(), for greater
+  performance. Set PDC_TRACE_FLUSH to make it fflush() after each write
+  (slower but safer in case of a crash). Patch by Ellie Timoney.
+
+- Since 3.2, the panel library was simply a copy of the main library.
+  This kludge is now dropped. (panel.h remains separate from curses.h.)
+
+- Removed PDCurses.spec, and the RPM-building makefile option. I think
+  this is better left to the various package/distro maintainers.
+
+- Various formatting corrections (e.g., trailing spaces stripped), and
+  variables renamed to avoid clashes. Some contributed by Stefan
+  Reinauer and Bill Gray.
+
+- Various documentation corrections and updates. All documentation
+  "converted" to Markdown format (involving few actual changes -- mainly
+  the file extension), for better rendering on GitHub, SourceForge, etc.
+  Some contributed by Anatoly Techtonik.
+
+- The "Win32" label is deprecated by Microsoft, and accordingly I've
+  replaced references in the documentation, although not yet changed the
+  filenames. The Windows console code can just as well be built for
+  64-bit (and always could be, AFAIK, although there are minor tweaks
+  to support it in this version).
+
+- The ncurses_tests can now be built under SDL as well as X11. Also, all
+  our tests (still/again) build under recent ncurses.
+
+- Put testcurs' "Output test" into real blink mode, if possible; and if
+  COLORS >= 16, use colors 0-15 directly in the color test, instead of
+  or'ing with A_BOLD to get the high-intensity colors.
+
+- Renamed the (by now rather old) "newdemo" to "ozdemo".
+
+- Moved from CVS to git; source is now on GitHub as well as SourceForge;
+  central site is now pdcurses.org.
+
+See the git log for more details.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PDCurses 4.0.2 - 2017 Sep 12   (Bill Gray fork)
+=========================
+   (Note that history gets confused here;  we have things happening
+in two forks.)
+
+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.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+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