Re: ANN: ncurses-6.1-20180331

[Chris Jones]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 10:20:35PM EDT, Thomas Dickey wrote:

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>  ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.1/ncurses-6.1-20180331.patch.gz
>  patch by Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
>  created  Sun Apr  1 02:19:08 UTC 2018
>  
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>  NEWS                                  |    7 
>  VERSION                               |    2 
>  dist.mk                               |    4 
>  doc/html/man/adacurses6-config.1.html |    2 
>  doc/html/man/captoinfo.1m.html        |    2 
>  doc/html/man/clear.1.html             |    2 
>  doc/html/man/form.3x.html             |    2 
>  doc/html/man/infocmp.1m.html          |    2 
>  doc/html/man/infotocap.1m.html        |    2 
>  doc/html/man/menu.3x.html             |    2 
>  doc/html/man/ncurses.3x.html          |    2 
>  doc/html/man/ncurses6-config.1.html   |    2 
>  doc/html/man/new_pair.3x.html         |    6 
>  doc/html/man/panel.3x.html            |    2 
>  doc/html/man/tabs.1.html              |    2 
>  doc/html/man/term.5.html              |   89 -
>  doc/html/man/terminfo.5.html          | 1762 ++++++++++++++++----------------
>  doc/html/man/tic.1m.html              |    2 
>  doc/html/man/toe.1m.html              |    2 
>  doc/html/man/tput.1.html              |    2 
>  doc/html/man/tset.1.html              |    2 
>  doc/html/man/user_caps.5.html         |    4 
>  man/new_pair.3x                       |    6 
>  man/term.5                            |   41 
>  ncurses/tinfo/read_entry.c            |   39 
>  ncurses/tinfo/write_entry.c           |   19 
>  package/debian-mingw/changelog        |    4 
>  package/debian-mingw64/changelog      |    4 
>  package/debian/changelog              |    4 
>  package/mingw-ncurses.nsi             |    4 
>  package/mingw-ncurses.spec            |    2 
>  package/ncurses.spec                  |    2 
>  32 files changed, 1036 insertions(+), 993 deletions(-)
>  
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>  
> 20180331
>       + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
>         extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
>         string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).

What is this diagram? How are we supposed to read it?

Is this documented anywhere?

Thanks,

CJ