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diff --git a/ncurses-5.2/README b/ncurses-5.2/README deleted file mode 100644 index 52aa79d..0000000 --- a/ncurses-5.2/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,175 +0,0 @@ --- $Id$ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - README file for the ncurses package - -See the file ANNOUNCE for a summary of ncurses features and ports. -See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install ncurses. -See the file NEWS for a release history and bug-fix notes. -See the file TO-DO for things that still need doing, including known bugs. - -Browse the file misc/ncurses-intro.html for narrative descriptions of how -to use ncurses and the panel, menu, and form libraries. - -Browse the file doc/html/hackguide.html for a tour of the package internals. - -ROADMAP AND PACKAGE OVERVIEW: - -You should be reading this file in a directory called: ncurses-d.d, where d.d -is the current version number (see the dist.mk file in this directory for -that). There should be a number of subdirectories, including `c++', `form', -`man', `menu', `misc', `ncurses', `panel', `progs', `test', 'tack' and `Ada95'. -(The 'tack' program may be distributed separately). - -A full build/install of this package typically installs several libraries, a -handful of utilities, and a database hierarchy. Here is an inventory of the -pieces: - -The libraries are: - - libncurses.a (normal) - libncurses.so (shared) - libncurses_g.a (debug and trace code enabled) - libncurses_p.a (profiling enabled) - - libpanel.a (normal) - libpanel.so (shared) - libpanel_g.a (debug and trace code enabled) - - libmenu.a (normal) - libmenu.so (shared) - libmenu_g.a (debug enabled) - - libform.a (normal) - libform.so (shared) - libform_g.a (debug enabled) - -The ncurses libraries implement the curses API. The panel, menu and forms -libraries implement clones of the SVr4 panel, menu and forms APIs. The source -code for these lives in the `ncurses', `panel', `menu', and `form' directories -respectively. - -In the `c++' directory, you'll find code that defines an interface to the -curses, forms, menus and panels library packaged as C++ classes, and a demo program in C++ -to test it. These class definition modules are not installed by the 'make -install.libs' rule as libncurses++. - -In the `Ada95' directory, you'll find code and documentation for an -Ada95 binding of the curses API, to be used with the GNAT compiler. -This binding is built by a normal top-level `make' if configure detects -an usable version of GNAT (3.10 or above). It is not installed automatically. -See the Ada95 directory for more build and installation instructions and -for documentation of the binding. - -To do its job, the ncurses code needs your terminal type to be set in the -environment variable TERM (normally set by your OS; under UNIX, getty(1) -typically does this, but you can override it in your .profile); and, it needs a -database of terminal descriptions in which to look up your terminal type's -capabilities. - -In older (V7/BSD) versions of curses, the database was a flat text file, -/etc/termcap; in newer (USG/USL) versions, the database is a hierarchy of -fast-loading binary description blocks under /usr/lib/terminfo. These binary -blocks are compiled from an improved editable text representation called -`terminfo' format (documented in man/terminfo.5). The ncurses library can use -either /etc/termcap or the compiled binary terminfo blocks, but prefers the -second form. - -In the `misc' directory, there is a text file terminfo.src, in editable -terminfo format, which can be used to generate the terminfo binaries (that's -what make install.data does). If the package was built with the ---enable-termcap option enabled, and the ncurses library cannot find a terminfo -description for your terminal, it will fall back to the termcap file supplied -with your system (which the ncurses package installation leaves strictly -alone). - -The utilities are as follows: - - tic -- terminfo source to binary compiler - infocmp -- terminfo binary to source decompiler/comparator - clear -- emits clear-screen for current terminal - tput -- shell-script access to terminal capabilities. - toe -- table of entries utility - tset -- terminal-initialization utility - -The first two (tic and infocmp) are used for manipulating terminfo -descriptions; the next two (clear and tput) are for use in shell scripts. The -last (tset) is provided for 4.4BSD compatibility. The source code for all of -these lives in the `progs' directory. - -Detailed documentation for all libraries and utilities can be found in the -`man' and `doc' directories. An HTML introduction to ncurses, panels, and -menus programming lives in the `doc/html' directory. Manpages in HTML format -are under `doc/html/man'. - -The `test' directory contains programs that can be used to verify or -demonstrate the functions of the ncurses libraries. See test/README for -descriptions of these programs. Notably, the `ncurses' utility is designed to -help you systematically exercise the library functions. - -AUTHORS: - -Pavel Curtis: - wrote the original ncurses - -Zeyd M. Ben-Halim: - port of original to Linux and many enhancements. - -Thomas Dickey (maintainer for 1.9.9g through 4.1, resuming with FSF's 5.0): - configuration scripts, porting, mods to adhere to XSI Curses in the - areas of background color, terminal modes. Also memory leak testing, - the wresize, default colors and key definition extensions and numerous - bug fixes (more than half of those enumerated in NEWS beginning with - the internal release 1.8.9). - -Florian La Roche (official maintainer for FSF's ncurses 4.2) - Beginning with release 4.2, ncurses is distributed under an MIT-style - license. - -Eric S. Raymond: - the man pages, infocmp(1), tput(1), clear(1), captoinfo(1), tset(1), - toe(1), most of tic(1), trace levels, the HTML intro, wgetnstr() and - many other entry points, the cursor-movement optimization, the - scroll-pack optimizer for vertical motions, the mouse interface and - xterm mouse support, and the ncurses test program. - -Juergen Pfeifer - The menu and form libraries, C++ bindings for ncurses, menus, forms and - panels, as well as the Ada95 binding. Ongoing support for panel. - -CONTRIBUTORS: - -Alexander V. Lukyanov - for numerous fixes and improvements to the optimization logic. - -David MacKenzie - for first-class bug-chasing and methodical testing. - -Ross Ridge - for the code that hacks termcap parameterized strings into terminfo. - -Warren Tucker and Gerhard Fuernkranz, - for writing and sending the panel library. - -Hellmuth Michaelis, - for many patches and testing the optimization code. - -Eric Newton, Ulrich Drepper, and Anatoly Ivasyuk: - the C++ code. - -Jonathan Ross, - for lessons in using sed. - -Keith Bostic (maintainer of 4.4BSD curses) - for help, criticism, comments, bug-finding, and being willing to - deep-six BSD curses for this one when it grew up. - -Richard Stallman, - for his commitment to making ncurses free software. - -Countless other people have contributed by reporting bugs, sending fixes, -suggesting improvements, and generally whining about ncurses :-) - -BUGS: - See the INSTALL file for bug and developer-list addresses. - The Hacker's Guide in the doc directory includes some guidelines - on how to report bugs in ways that will get them fixed most quickly. |