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it out. You can also test the hardware-scrolling optimization separately
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with <CODE>hardscroll</CODE>. <P>
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There's one other interactive tester, <CODE>tctest</CODE>, that exercises
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translation between termcap and terminfo formats. If you have a serious
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need to run this, you probably belong on our development team!
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<H1><A NAME="ncurslib">A Tour of the Ncurses Library</A></H1>
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<H2><A NAME="loverview">Library Overview</A></H2>
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It is rather unlikely you will ever need to change these, unless
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you want to introduce a new debug trace level for some reasoon.<P>
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you want to introduce a new debug trace level for some reason.<P>
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There is another group of files that do direct I/O via <EM>tputs()</EM>,
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computations on the terminal capabilities, or queries to the OS
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transformations of <CODE>curscr</CODE> lines to <CODE>newscr</CODE> lines. Its main
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tool is the routine <CODE>mvcur()</CODE> in <CODE>lib_mvcur.c</CODE>. This routine
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does cursor-movement optimization, attempting to get from given screen
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location A to given location B in the fewest output characters posible. <P>
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location A to given location B in the fewest output characters possible. <P>
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