Message-Id: <201612312037.uBVKbN9b030039@delorie.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:20:58 +0100
From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: release 2 of the DJGPP port of PDCurses 3.4 uploaded.
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This is a port of PDCurses 3.4 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

   DJGPP specific changes.
   =======================

   The DJGPP specific implementation of PDC_napms using INT 0x2f function 0x1680
   and INT 0x28 does not work properly as soon as a programs like DOSIDLE.EXE
   are loaded.  Programs using PDC_napms seem to hang and it becomes necessary
   to hit some key to reactivate them.  The DJGPP specific implementation now
   calls delay from libc instead.  Also a small bug has been fixed in debug.c.
   Apart from these changes, only the Makefile for DJGPP has been modified to
   produce a library zip archive that reflects the stock DJGPP installation tree.
   The diffs file shows the changes.  The library documentation is located in
   /contrib/PDCurses.34 and /share/doc/PDCurses.34.
   To build the libraries and the sample and test programs change into the
   _build directory under the top source directory and start djbuild.bat.

   Because the behaviour of PDC_napms has serious implications on all
   applications that use it and this behaviour shall be considered a bug, the
   old version of this port has been removed and replaced with this new one.


   Getting the port.
   =================

   The port consists of the usual two packages produced using djdev205 that can
   be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2016-12-30):

     PDCurses 3.4 headers, libraries and documentation:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/pdcur34a.zip

     PDCurses 3.4 source:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/pdcur34s.zip


   To send PDCurses specific bug reports look at
   <http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/> to see how to register to the bug
   mailing list.
   Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
   comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.


Enjoy.

   Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>