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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:26:35 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Christopher Johnson <more_synthehol_please@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: intro(3) and (n)curses
Message-ID:  <20020110142635.B98225@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020110093907.13962.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020110093907.13962.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:39:07AM -0800, Christopher Johnson wrote:
> I've been working on expanding intro(3), and I was
> wondering if someone would answer three quick
> questions.
> 
> 1.  I understand that curses was the original terminal
> library.  Has FreeBSD switched over entirely to
> ncurses?  Is ncurses the preferred reference (eg. - 2
> paragraph of form(3X) would be '-lform -lncurses'
> instead of '-lform -lcurses')?
> 
``ls -l /usr/lib/libcurses.a'' is your answer.

> 2.  Most of the (n)curses pages are listed as being
> part of 3X.  Since there's no intro(3X), should I
> include them in intro(3)?  Or would a separate
> intro(3X) be preferred?
> 
These manpages are from contributed software; they
should use section 3 actually.


Cheers,
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