Welcome to PDCurses!
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Public Domain Curses, aka 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 package is in the public domain, but small portions of PDCurses 
are subject to copyright under various licenses.  Each directory 
contains a README file, with a section titled "Distribution Status" 
which describes the status of the files in that directory.

If you use PDCurses in an application, an acknowledgement would be 
appreciated, but is not mandatory. If you make corrections or 
enhancements to PDCurses, please forward them to the current maintainer 
for the benefit of other users.

This software is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY whatsoever.


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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William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sf.net>