Announcing the latest version of ncurses (1.8.6) sources and 
associated bits and pieces.

It available by anonymous ftp as:
netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/ncurses/ncurses-1.8.6.tgz
The file is a gzipped tar. gzip and tar are available from
you favorite GNU archive.

The PANELS library is now available separately  as panels.tgz

See the file ncurses-1.8.6/INSTALL for instructions on how to build
and install ncurses.

N.B. The linux Console terminfo discription is now called linux instead
of console. Similarly, con132x43 is now called linux-132x43.
You'll need to modify /etc/termcap, /etc/profile, /etc/ttytype, etc
accordingly.

ncurses is a SYSV-compatible curses (screen management) package.
It supports keypad() allowing access to function and arrow keys.
It supports and uses Terminfo instead of termcap for terminal description.
It has support for PC graphic characters (used in drawing boxes).
It has color support similar to that in SYSV curses.

It currently has support for the following:
Linux
386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD
BSDI's BSD/386
SYSTEM V R4
SunOs 4.1.3
Ultrix
HP/UX 9.0
HP/UX with c89 compiler
Apollo
NeXTSTEP 3.0
NeXTSTEP 3.2
AIX 3.2.5
Some people are working on A/UX, SCO, DEC alpha, SunOs with glibc.

Any comments, bug reports, patches, additions are welcome.
If you have a program that's having problems running with ncurses either send
me a copy of it or tell where I can get a copy.

Zeyd M. Ben-Halim
zmbenhal@netcom.com

If you do have feedback about ncurses please read the README file in
ncurses-1.8.6 BEFORE you send me anything.

