This the latest version of ncurses (1.8.5)
It available by anonymous ftp as:
netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/ncurses/1.8.5.tgz
The file is a gzipped tar. gzip and tar are available from
you favorite GNU archive.

See the file ncurses-1.8.5/INSTALL for instructions on how to build
and install ncurses.

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
NeXT 3.0
Some people are working on A/UX, AIX, SCO, DEC alpha, SunOs with glibc.

Any comments, bug reports, patches, additions are welcome.
There is a mailing for discussing ncurses and general Character-based user
interfaces. Send mail to ncurses-list-request@cs.tu-berlin.de asking to
be added.
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


CONTRIBUTORS:
Special credit goes to:
Pavel Curtis, for writing the original (and more importantly posting it).
Gerhard Fuernkranz, for writing the slk_* routines and sending me the sources
        for the PANELS library.
Warren Tucker, for writing the PANELS library.
Hellmuth Michaelis, for many patches and testing the optimization code.
Ulrich Drepper and Anatoly N. Ivasyuk, for the C++ support.
Wolfgang Jung, for providing the mailing list.
Eric S. Raymond, for the man pages and nagging me into fixing several things! 
Jonathan Ross, for lesson in using sed.

Countless other people have contributed by reporting bugs, sending fixes,
suggesting improvements, and generally whining about ncurses :-)

