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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 13:48:30 -0400
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Subject: Re: NCurses-5.0
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In-Reply-To: <20000518171211.14960.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:12:11AM -0700

This should probably go into latest.  I don't suppose you want to be
the ncurses maintainer?

cgf

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:12:11AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>This builds OOB.  But installation requires the attached diff.
>
>I've taken the liberty to create a cygwin terminfo file that passes most of the
>tests.  I've joined the functions from pcansi and linux and removed (Commented
>Out with explanation) the functions from linux that don't work.  Most
>impressive is the lrtest that I remember from before didn't work very well.  It
>even has a completed lower right corner on the border.
>
>Someone else had submitted changes to the terminfo.src file back from b19.  It
>basically mapped the function keys and then used ansi.sys.  I renamed it to
>cygwinB19.
>
>I've also added a cygwinDBG so that it will be easy to modify values and add
>functions for testing purposes and maintaining a sane working version.