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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/ANNOUNCE b/contrib/ncurses/ANNOUNCE index 22ae4da..5ef8f3c 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/ANNOUNCE +++ b/contrib/ncurses/ANNOUNCE @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ manual pages are provided for the library and tools. The ncurses distribution is available via anonymous FTP at the GNU - distribution site [1]ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses. It is also - available at [2]ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses. + distribution site [1]ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses. + It is also available at [2]ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses. Release Notes @@ -52,8 +52,12 @@ control over the use of default colors. This is the principal visible difference between ncurses 5.1 and preceding versions. The new extension allows an application to specify what colors pair 0 - uses. It defaults to white on black, unless you have invoked - use_default_colors(). + uses. + NOTE: Pair 0 defaults to white on black unless you have invoked + use_default_colors() or set it via assume_default_colors(). An + application that calls start_colors() without setting the + background color will consistently have a black background no + matter what color your terminal's background actually is. * made several fixes to the terminfo-to-termcap conversion, and have been using the generated termcaps without further hand-tuning. This builds on the extension use_extended_names() by adding @@ -81,8 +85,8 @@ affects stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD * reordered tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also dropped - test for $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing - "xterm". + test for $DISPLAY in favor of the terminfo capability kmous=\E[M + or if $TERM environment variable contains "xterm". * added configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, which provides for fully indexing manpage entries by making symbolic links for the aliases. @@ -237,7 +241,8 @@ cdk Curses Development Kit - [3]Curses Development Kit [4]http://dickey.his.com/cdk. + [3]http://www.vexus.ca/CDK.html + [4]http://dickey.his.com/cdk. ded directory-editor @@ -254,47 +259,53 @@ Midnight Commander 4.1 file manager + [8]www.gnome.org/mc/. mutt mail utility - [8]http://www.mutt.org. + [9]http://www.mutt.org. ncftp file-transfer utility + [10]http://www.ncftp.com. nvi New vi versions 1.50 are able to use ncurses versions 1.9.7 and later. + [11]http://www.bostic.com/vi/. tin newsreader, supporting color, MIME - [9]http://www.tin.org. + [12]http://www.tin.org. taper tape archive utility + [13]http://members.iinet.net.au/~yusuf/taper/. vh-1.6 Volks-Hypertext browser for the Jargon File + [14]http://www.bg.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/vh.html. as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support alone: minicom terminal emulator + [15]http://www.pp.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html. vile vi-like-emacs - [10]http://dickey.his.com/vile. + [16]http://dickey.his.com/vile. The ncurses distribution includes a selection of test programs (including a few games). Who's Who and What's What - The original developers of ncurses are [11]Zeyd Ben-Halim and [12]Eric - S. Raymond. Ongoing work is being done by [13]Thomas Dickey and - [14]Jürgen Pfeifer. [15]Thomas Dickey acts as the maintainer for the + The original developers of ncurses are [17]Zeyd Ben-Halim and [18]Eric + S. Raymond. Ongoing work is being done by [19]Thomas Dickey and + [20]Jürgen Pfeifer. [21]Thomas Dickey acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, which holds the copyright on ncurses. - Contact the current maintainers at [16]bug-ncurses@gnu.org. + Contact the current maintainers at [22]bug-ncurses@gnu.org. To join the ncurses mailing list, please write email to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org containing the line: @@ -304,7 +315,7 @@ Who's Who and What's What and testing of this package. Beta versions of ncurses and patches to the current release are made - available at [17]ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses. + available at [23]ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses. Future Plans @@ -319,10 +330,10 @@ Other Related Resources The distribution includes and uses a version of the terminfo-format terminal description file maintained by Eric Raymond. - [18]http://earthspace.net/~esr/terminfo. + [24]http://earthspace.net/~esr/terminfo. You can find lots of information on terminal-related topics not - covered in the terminfo file at [19]Richard Shuford's archive. + covered in the terminfo file at [25]Richard Shuford's archive. References @@ -333,15 +344,21 @@ References 5. http://dickey.his.com/ded/ded.html 6. http://dickey.his.com/dialog/dialog.html 7. http://lynx.isc.org/release/ - 8. http://www.mutt.org/ - 9. http://www.tin.org/ - 10. http://dickey.his.com/vile/vile.html - 11. mailto:zmbenhal@netcom.com - 12. http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html - 13. mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com - 14. mailto:juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net - 15. mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com - 16. mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org - 17. ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses - 18. http://earthspace.net/~esr/terminfo - 19. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html + 8. file://localhost/usr/build/ncurses/ncurses-5.1-20000704/doc/html/www.gnome.org/mc/ + 9. http://www.mutt.org/ + 10. http://www.ncftp.com/ + 11. http://www.bostic.com/vi/ + 12. http://www.tin.org/ + 13. http://members.iinet.net.au/~yusuf/taper/ + 14. http://www.bg.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/vh.html + 15. http://www.pp.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html + 16. http://dickey.his.com/vile/vile.html + 17. mailto:zmbenhal@netcom.com + 18. http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html + 19. mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com + 20. mailto:juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net + 21. mailto:dickey@herndon4.his.com + 22. mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org + 23. ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses + 24. http://earthspace.net/~esr/terminfo + 25. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html |
