		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.  An HTML
introduction to ncurses programming lives in the doc directory.

RELATED RESOURCES:

This distribution now includes (and uses) a copy of the master terminfo
database maintained by Eric Raymond.  This database (which is the 
official descendant of the 4.4BSD termcap file) changes faster than this
code does.

You can surf to a WWW page that carries the current terminfo master file,
and news about ncurses, at

	http://www.ccil.org/~esr/ncurses.html

AUTHORS:

Pavel Curtis: 
	wrote the original ncurses

Zeyd M. Ben-Halim:
	Port of original to Linux and many enhancements.

Eric S. Raymond:
	the man pages, infocmp(1), tput(1), clear(1), captoinfo(1),
	most of tic(1), src/lib_twait.c, trace levels, the HTML intro,
	wgetnstr() and 36 other entry points, the A_PCCHARSET code, 
	the cursor-movement optimization, the scroll-pack optimizer
        for vertical motions, and the ncurses test program.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Thomas Dickey and David MacKenzie
	for first-class bug-chasing and methodical testing.

Ross Ridge
	for the code that hacks termcap parameters into terminfo.

Warren Tucker and Gerhard Fuernkranz,
	for writing and sending the PANELS library.

Hellmuth Michaelis,
	for many patches and testing the optimization code.

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

Jonathan Ross,
	for lessons in using sed.

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


