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Patrick Georgi3b77b722011-07-07 15:41:53 +02001Welcome to PDCurses!
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Stefan Reinauer5bbc5e52015-11-10 09:13:43 -08004Public Domain Curses, aka PDCurses, is an implementation of X/Open
Patrick Georgi3b77b722011-07-07 15:41:53 +02005curses for multiple platforms. The latest version can be found at:
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9For changes, see the HISTORY file.
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Stefan Reinauer5bbc5e52015-11-10 09:13:43 -080015The core package is in the public domain, but small portions of PDCurses
16are subject to copyright under various licenses. Each directory
17contains a README file, with a section titled "Distribution Status"
Patrick Georgi3b77b722011-07-07 15:41:53 +020018which describes the status of the files in that directory.
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Stefan Reinauer5bbc5e52015-11-10 09:13:43 -080020If you use PDCurses in an application, an acknowledgement would be
21appreciated, but is not mandatory. If you make corrections or
22enhancements to PDCurses, please forward them to the current maintainer
Patrick Georgi3b77b722011-07-07 15:41:53 +020023for the benefit of other users.
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25This software is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY whatsoever.
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Stefan Reinauer5bbc5e52015-11-10 09:13:43 -080031PDCurses has been ported to DOS, OS/2, Win32, X11 and SDL. A directory
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Patrick Georgi3b77b722011-07-07 15:41:53 +020033platforms. Build instructions are in the README file for each platform.
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Stefan Reinauer5bbc5e52015-11-10 09:13:43 -080039All files in this directory except configure, config.guess and
40config.sub are released to the Public Domain. config.guess and
41config.sub are under the GPL; configure is under a free license
Patrick Georgi3b77b722011-07-07 15:41:53 +020042described within it.
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48William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sf.net>