A bit more.

readme.27

@@ -5,106 +5,109 @@
 
 INTRODUCTION:
 
- A brief summary of changes in this release. (More details are available 
+ Hello all. As of 2.7, I'm the new maintainer for PDCurses. Here's a 
+ brief summary of changes in this release. (More details are available 
  in the CVS log and trackers on SourceForge.)
 
 NEW FEATURES:
 
 - Functions: delscreen(), getattrs(), has_key(), slk_color(), 
-  wcolor_set(), wtimeout()
+  wcolor_set(), wtimeout().
 
 - Macros: color_set(), mvhline(), mvvline(), mvwgetnstr(), mvwhline(), 
-  mvwvline(), timeout(), wresize()
+  mvwvline(), timeout(), wresize().
 
-- Stub implementations of terminfo functions (including a term.h)
+- Stub implementations of terminfo functions (including a term.h).
 
 - More stubs for compatibility: filter(), getwin(), putwin(), 
   noqiflush(), qiflush(), scr_dump(), scr_init(), scr_restore(), 
-  scr_set(), use_env(), vidattr(), vidputs()
+  scr_set(), use_env(), vidattr(), vidputs().
 
 - The terminal's default colors are used as curses' default colors when
   the environment variable "PDC_ORIGINAL_COLORS" is set to any value
-  (Win32 only at the moment)
+  (Win32 only at the moment).
 
-- Simplified build system
+- Simplified build system.
 
 - Replaced PDC_STATIC_BUILD with its opposite, PDC_DLL_BUILD (see .mak 
-  files for more info)
+  files for more info).
 
-- Minimal implementation of color_content() -- no longer a stub
+- Minimal implementation of color_content() -- no longer a stub.
 
 - Added the remaining ACS defines (ACS_S3, ACS_BBSS, etc.) for
-  DOS/OS2/Win; use "enhanced" versions of existing ACS characters
+  DOS/OS2/Win; use "enhanced" versions of existing ACS characters.
 
-- Support for scroll wheels
+- Support for scroll wheels.
 
-- Support for Pacific C
+- Support for Pacific C.
 
 BUGS FIXED:
 
-- Builds correctly (including demos) on all tested platforms; nearly all 
-  compiler warnings cleaned up; build ptest demo on all platforms; 
-  improved "clean" targets
+- Builds correctly (including demos) on all tested platforms (see 
+  below); nearly all compiler warnings cleaned up; build ptest demo on 
+  all platforms; improved "clean" targets.
 
-- Restored the ability to build ncurses_tests
+- Restored the ability to build ncurses_tests.
 
 - Line-breakout optimization now defaults to off (equivalent to 
   "typeahead(-1)"), so output is not interrupted by keystrokes (it's 
-  supposed to resume on the next refresh(), which wasn't working)
+  supposed to resume on the next refresh(), which wasn't working).
 
-- Implicit wrefresh() in wgetch() was not invoked in nodelay mode
+- Implicit wrefresh() in wgetch() was not invoked in nodelay mode.
 
 - subpad() was erroneously offsetting from the origin coordinates of the 
-  parent pad (which are always -1,-1)
+  parent pad (which are always -1,-1).
 
 - In wborder(), whline(), and wvline(), the current (wattrset) attribute 
-  was being used, but not the current background (wbkgd)
+  was being used, but not the current background (wbkgd).
 
-- Allow Russian 'r' character ASCII 0xe0 to be returned
+- Allow Russian 'r' character ASCII 0xe0 to be returned.
 
-- termattrs() now also returns A_UNDERLINE, A_REVERSE
+- termattrs() now also returns A_UNDERLINE, A_REVERSE.
 
-- Unwanted scrolling on startup in Win32 with large scrollback buffers
+- Unwanted scrolling on startup in Win32 with large scrollback buffers.
 
-- Revamped keyboard handling for Win32
+- Revamped keyboard handling for Win32.
 
-- napms() etc. now work with Cygwin
+- New screen resize method for Win32.
+
+- napms() etc. now work with Cygwin.
 
 - curs_set(0) wasn't working in Win32 in full-screen (ALT-ENTER) mode -- 
-  the cursor stayed on
+  the cursor stayed on.
 
-- A_REVERSE now works right in XCurses
+- A_REVERSE now works right in XCurses.
 
-- On 64-bit systems, XCurses was ignoring every other keystroke
+- On 64-bit systems, XCurses was ignoring every other keystroke.
 
-- Added focus hints for XCurses
+- Added focus hints for XCurses.
 
 - Demos (except for tuidemo) once again have their proper titles in
-  XCurses (using Xinitscr() instead of the obsolete XCursesProgramName)
+  XCurses (using Xinitscr() instead of the obsolete XCursesProgramName).
 
 - The 16-bit chtype is a working option again (by removing #define 
-  CHTYPE_LONG from curses.h), except in XCurses
+  CHTYPE_LONG from curses.h), except in XCurses.
 
-- Reset screen size in resetty() under DOS, as in Win32 and OS/2
+- Reset screen size in resetty() under DOS, as in Win32 and OS/2.
 
-- Changes for cursor size under DOS
+- Changes for cursor size under DOS.
 
-- Automatic setting of BIOS mode for CGA under DOS now works
+- Automatic setting of BIOS mode for CGA under DOS now works.
 
 - Cursor is now always updated in PDC_gotoxy(); fixes missing characters 
-  in BIOS mode
+  in BIOS mode.
 
 - Macros nocbreak(), cbreak(), nocrmode(), crmode(), nodelay(),
-  nl() and nonl() now return OK
+  nl() and nonl() now return OK.
 
 - ERR and OK are now defined as -1 and 0, respectively, for 
   compatibility with other curses implementations -- note that this
   change is not binary compatible; you'll have to rebuild programs that 
-  use shared/dynamic libraries
+  use shared/dynamic libraries.
 
-- Added "const" to prototypes where appropriate
+- Added "const" to prototypes where appropriate.
 
-- Miscellaneous code cleanup
+- Miscellaneous code cleanup.
 
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
 
@@ -124,5 +127,11 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
  maintainer of PDCurses. Plus thanks to all who've reported bugs or 
  requested features, and anyone else I've forgotten.
 
+ I've tested this version on Turbo C++ 3.0 and Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS; 
+ DJGPP 2.X; Open Watcom 1.3 for DOS (16 and 32-bit), Windows and OS/2; 
+ EMX 0.9d and the "newgcc" version of EMX; Borland C++ 5.5 for Windows; 
+ recent versions of MinGW, Cygwin, LCC-Win32 and Microsoft Visual C++; 
+ and gcc under several flavors of Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD and Solaris. 
+
 -- William McBrine
    December 29, 2005