On Sat, Oct 04, 2025 at 04:45:18PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-10-04T16:04:45-0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2025 at 09:14:16AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > --- > > > man/curs_extend.3x | 6 ++++++ > > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > > > It has a function with that name, for "compatibility" only. > > That is, it allows programs to link with that function, while > > providing no useful information about the version. > > > > The reported version as seen with the ncurses test-program is just this: > > > > Welcome to NetBSD-Curses (believe in unicorns). Press ? for help. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > I don't suppose the manpage is a good place for that information. > > At 2025-10-04T16:31:05-0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Perhaps I'll add a note here - > > > > > > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-netbsd.html > > > > I already knew about it, from reading > > > > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2019/08/thread1.html > > > > and found no reason to mention it in the manpage. > > I added documentation for it simply because the symbol does appear to > exist in the NetBSD curses library, and uses the same API. > > The dubious utility of its output could be regarded, as the Austin Group > often says, "a quality-of-implementation" issue.
I added a one-liner, though last night's update has a couple of typos which I fixed today while checking over a regression in groff which I hadn't noticed before (subsection titles are double-overstruck, which is inconsistent which section titles). My website is up-to-date :-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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