Welcome to PDCurses!
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PDCurses is an implementation of X/Open curses for multiple platforms. 
The latest version can be found at:

   http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/

For changes, see the HISTORY file.


Legal Stuff
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The core curses package is Public Domain, but small portions of this 
package are subject to various copyright conditions.  Each directory in 
this package contains a README file. In each of these README files is a 
section titled "Distribution Status" which describes the distribution 
status of the files within that directory.

Although the core PDCurses package is Public Domain, mention of PDCurses 
in the documentation of packages linked with it is greatly appreciated.


Ports
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PDCurses has been ported to DOS, OS/2, Win32, X11 and SDL. A directory 
containing the port-specific source files exists for each of these 
platforms. Build instructions are in the README file for each platform.


Distribution Status
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All files in this directory except configure, config.guess and 
config.sub are released to the Public Domain. config.guess and 
config.sub are under the GPL; configure is under a free license 
described within it.


Maintainer
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The PDCurses package (and its predecessors) have had various maintainers 
over the years.  The contact details of the current maintainer of the 
package are listed in the file "maintain.er".