		README file for the ncurses package

DOCUMENTATION:

See the file ANNOUNCE for a summary of ncurses features and ports.
See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install ncurses.
See the file CHANGES for a release history and bug-fix notes.

Detailed documentation can be found in the man directory.

CREDITS:

Pavel Curtis: 
	wrote the original ncurses

Zeyd M. Ben-Halim:
	Port of original to Linux and many enhancements.
	Zeyd can have this project back any time he re-materializes.

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.

Eric Newton, Ulrich Drepper, and Anatoly Ivasyuk:
	the C++ code.

Eric S. Raymond:
	the man pages, src/lib_twait.c, infocmp(1), tput(1),
        clear(1), captoinfo(1), trace levels, termcap-compilation
        support in tic(1), wgetnstr(), ripoffline(), termattrs(),
        delay_output(), wechochar(), and the ncurses test program.

Jonathan Ross,
	for lesson in using sed.

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


