The ncurses package

Package announcement

Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: noreply@freshmeat.net
To: noreply@freshmeat.net
Subject: [fmII] ncurses 5.5 released (Default branch)

This email is to inform you about the release of version '5.5' of 'ncurses'
through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful information can be found
at

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/ncurses/

The changes in this release are as follows:
The forms and menus libraries work with multi-byte characters.
Experimental support for 256 color display and 5-button mice have
been added. Many improvements have been made to locale support and
portability, as well as bugfixes in different areas.

Release focus:
5 - Major feature enhancements

Project added:
Mon, Feb 16th 1998 15:04 (7 years, 8 months ago)

Project description:
The ncurses (new curses) library is a freeware emulation of System V
Release 4.0 curses. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color
and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key
mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD
curses. The distribution includes the library and support utilities,
including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput,
tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo. Full manual pages are
provided for the library and tools.

Trove categories:
[Environment         ] Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) ::
Curses
[Intended Audience   ] Developers
[License             ] Freely Distributable, OSI Approved :: MIT/X
Consortium License
[Programming Language] Ada, C, C++
[Topic               ] Software Development :: Libraries

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Source and support files

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 ncurses-5.5.tar.gz             2005-10-12T15:20    2.21 MB ncurses version 5.5
 ncurses-5.4.tar.gz             2004-02-13T03:54    2.05 MB ncurses version 5.4
 ncurses-5.3.tar.gz             2002-10-14T21:07    1.97 MB ncurses version 5.3
 ncurses-5.3-2002-09-07.tar.gz  2002-09-07T18:19    1.97 MB ncurses version 5.3 development snapshot from 2002-09-07

All of these files are also available from /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/ncurses/

for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

bash /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/ncurses.sh
The URLs presented above are time-coded and will remain valid until the contents of this directory changes,
at which time visitors following direct links will be presented with the new index instead of the requested content.

Dependencies

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 libtool                        2005-04-25T14:35          - The libtool package

This package is also available from /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/

for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

Dependents

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 aumix                          2002-12-07T14:03          - The aumix package
 gdb                            2004-11-09T19:42          - The gdb package
 gnubash                        2004-08-03T16:07          - The gnubash package
 gnureadline                    2004-08-03T16:07          - The gnureadline package
 gpm                            2002-12-24T23:20          - The gpm package
 links                          2005-01-23T05:14          - The links package
 linux                          2007-12-18T17:37          - The linux package
 lynx                           2004-02-04T07:07          - The lynx package
 naim                           2007-07-10T00:49          - A console AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Lily CMC client 
 nano                           2003-08-11T21:51          - The nano package
 openafs                        2006-04-27T13:24          - The openafs package
 samba                          2005-12-21T14:08          - The samba package
 screen                         2003-12-05T14:02          - The screen package

All of these packages are also available from /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/

for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

Extra package information

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