* configure.in: Remove support for curses libraries other than

ncurses. * acinclude.m4: Likewise. * FAQ: Remove everything about UNIX curses. * INSTALL: Likewise.
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 2001-08-24  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 	* configure.in: Remove support for curses libraries other than
 	ncurses.
 	* acinclude.m4: Likewise.
 	* FAQ: Remove everything about UNIX curses.
 	* INSTALL: Likewise.
 	* configure.in: Enable large file support by default.
 	* NEWS: Mention it.
 	* INSTALL: Document it.  Minor fixes.
--- a/346
+++ b/346
@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-Midnight Commander
+GNU Midnight Commander
 Questions and Answers
   The newest version of this document is available at
   http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/mc/FAQ?raw=1
-   
+
     * 1 Getting started
          + 1.1 What is Midnight Commander?
          + 1.2 Does it run on my machine?
          + 1.3 Does it work with my terminal?
          + 1.4 What else do I need to run MC?
-          + 1.5 Is Midnight Commander Public Domain?  Copyrighted?
+          + 1.5 Is GNU Midnight Commander Public Domain?  Copyrighted?
-          + 1.6 Where can I get Midnight Commander?
+          + 1.6 Where can I get GNU Midnight Commander?
          + 1.7 I don't have FTP access. Where can I get MC?
     * 2 Keyboard
          + 2.1 What does documentation mean with the C-?, M-? and F?
@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Questions and Answers
          + 11.1 Authorship
          + 11.2 Feedback is invited
          + 11.3 Disclaimer and copyright
-       
+
 1 Getting started
 1.1 What is Midnight Commander?
@ -93,16 +93,16 @@ Questions and Answers
   system while making many frequent file operations more efficient and
   preserving the full power of the command prompt. You will wonder how
   you could ever live without it.
-   
+
   For more thorough description take a look at the announcement of
   Midnight Commander 4.0.
-   
+
 1.2 Does it run on my machine?
   Yes, Midnight Commander can run on almost any machine, including Unix
   clones, Windows 95/NT and OS/2. Midnight Commander does not run on
   Macintosh.
-   
+
   Midnight Commander uses GNU Autoconf which can automatically
   configure Midnight Commander for use on almost any (if not every)
   Unix clone. Following configurations have been tested:
@ -126,19 +126,19 @@ Questions and Answers
     * i386-*-windows-nt-3.51, 4.0
     * i386-*-windows95
     * i386-*-os2
-   
+
   Windows 95/NT port can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++, Borland
   C++, RSX and Mingw32.
-   
+
 1.3 Does it work with my terminal?
   Yes, it does.
-   
+
   Because Midnight Commander is a full screen program it doesn't run on
   dummy terminals but anything more advanced will do (like vt100). If
   your terminal works with vi, emacs, elm or pine it will work with
   Midnight Commander.
-   
+
 1.4 What else do I need to run MC?
   You need an Unix compatible operating system. Support for Windows 95/NT
@ -147,59 +147,56 @@ Questions and Answers
   To compile any edition you need to have GLib installed. It's available
   at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.  Only GLib versions 1.2.x will be
   currently detected.
-   
+
   If you want to use mouse on the Linux console you need the gpm daemon
   from ftp://ftp.systemy.it/pub/develop/. You need nothing extra to use
   mouse on xterm.
-   
+
   If you do not want to use the S-Lang library you could try using
   ncurses (we recommend only version 4.1 and above).
   You can get it along with other curses libraries, too, but results may
   not be pretty or even usable.
-1.5 Is Midnight Commander Public Domain? Copyrighted?
+1.5 Is GNU Midnight Commander Public Domain? Copyrighted?
   Midnight Commander is under GNU Public License which basically means
   that you may freely copy, change and distribute it, but that you may
   not impose any restrictions on further distribution, and that you must
-   make the source code available. This is not the same as Public Domain.
+   make the source code available.  This is not the same as Public Domain.
   For details, the GNU license is included in GNU Midnight Commander
   source distribution (the COPYING file).
-   
+
-   Midnight Commander is nowadays officially a part of GNU project. All
+   Midnight Commander is now officially a part of the GNU project.
-   the authors of GNU Midnight Commander have given all their rights on
+   All the authors of GNU Midnight Commander have given all their rights
-   the program to the Free Software Foundation.
+   on the program to the Free Software Foundation.
-   
+
-1.6 Where can I get Midnight Commander?
+1.6 Where can I get GNU Midnight Commander?
   The main site is ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/mc/
-   
+
 1.7 I don't have FTP access. Where can I get MC?
   Most GNU/Linux distributions include GNU Midnight Commander. For
   example, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware and SuSE.
-   
+
 2 Keyboard
 2.1 What does documentation mean with the C-?, M-? and F? keys?
-   Midnight Commander documentation uses emacs style names for keyboard
+   GNU Midnight Commander documentation uses emacs style names for
-   keys.
+   keyboard keys.
-   
+
   C stands for the Ctrl key. For example, C-f means that you should hold
   down the Ctrl key and press the f key.
-   
+
   M stands for the Meta key. Your terminal might call it Alt or Compose
   instead of Meta. For example, M-f means that you should hold down the
   Meta/Alt/Compose key and press the f key. If your terminal doesn't
   have Meta, Alt or Compose or they don't work you can use Esc. For M-f
   press the Esc key and then press the f key.
-   
+
   F? stands for a function key. If your terminal doesn't have function
   keys or they don't work you can use Esc. For example, for F3 press the
   Esc key and then press the 3 key.
-   
+
 2.2 Why don't function keys (or some other key) work?
   Your terminfo or termcap database has missing or incorrect definitions
@ -208,39 +205,39 @@ Questions and Answers
   database" you should install one of the enhanced terminfo databases
   included in GNU Midnight Commander source distribution. For example,
   if you are using xterm type "tic xterm.ti".
-   
+
   If the result is "using the S-Lang library with termcap database" you
   should fix your /etc/termcap database.
-   
+
   Better termcap and terminfo databases are available here:
-   
+
     http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/terminfo/
     ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/
-     
+
   You can select whether Midnight Commander will use terminfo or termcap
   database by giving --with-terminfo or --with-termcap option to the
   configure. Default is terminfo if found, otherwise termcap.
-   
+
   If you don't have permissions to edit terminal databases you can use
   Learn keys feature of Midnight Commander instead. Press Esc 9 o k and
   follow instructions.
-   
+
   If all else fails you can emulate function keys by first pressing the
   ESC key and then one of the number keys. For example, if you want to
   produce F9, press ESC, then 9. If you don't have a ESC key on your
   keyboard you can try alt-9 or meta-9.
-   
+
 2.3 How do I use function keys F11 to F20?
   These can mapped to function keys F1 to F10 with Shift held. e.g.
   function key F13 can be activated by pressing Shift-F3. You can define
   the keys this way in the Options menu. The convention for PC keyboards
   is that F11-20 always means Shift with F1-10
-   
+
   Note! Windows 95/NT and OS/2 ports use F11 and F12 keys to change the
   current disk drive. In this case F11 and F12 mean the real F11 and F12
   keys, not shift-F1 and shift-F2.
-   
+
 2.4 Why does the ESC key behave funny?
   Midnight Commander uses the ESC key as a prefix for simulating the
@ -255,45 +252,45 @@ Questions and Answers
   only if another key is pressed within 0.5 seconds. After 0.5 seconds
   the ESC key cancels. There is no way to make ESC cancel immediately
   (if we want to be able to use arrows keys and function keys).
-   
+
 2.5 How can I add the plus sign (+) on the command line?
   Press C-q first, then press the + sign.
-   
+
   The plus key is the hotkey for the select files command. If you want
   to add a literal plus on to the command line you must quote it by
   pressing C-q first.
-   
+
   Another common key which needs the C-q prefix is backslash "\".
-   
+
 2.6 C-o doesn't work!
   Maybe C-o is a stty control character on your terminal. See man stty
   for details on how to list and change stty control characters.
-   
+
 2.7 What 'keys' are the "a1" and "c1" keys mentioned in the manual?
   The "a1" key is the key which has the "a1" caption on it.
-   
+
   The "c1" key is the key which has the "c1" caption on it.
-   
+
   If you have to ask what these two keys are your keyboard hasn't
   probably got them. Actually, I have never seen a keyboard which has
   got them.
-   
+
 3 Mouse
 3.1 How do I enable mouse support?
   Invoke mc like this (without quotes): "mc -x". If this doesn't work
   upgrade to a terminal which compatible with the Xterm mouse sequences.
-   
+
   Alternatively, on Linux console you can use gpm.
-   
+
 3.2 How do I cut and paste text with mouse?
   Hold down shift key while using mouse to cut and paste.
-   
+
 3.3 How do I get the extension dependent pop-up menu to pop up?
   It was developed for the GNOME edition. The text-mode edition doesn't
@ -306,28 +303,28 @@ Questions and Answers
   This means that your terminfo databases do not contain the correct
   definitions for your terminal.
-   
+
   You could try using a different terminal setting. If you use csh or
   tcsh:
-   
+
     setenv TERM vt100
-     
+
   or if you use sh, bash, ksh or zsh:
-   
+
     export TERM=vt100
-     
+
   If this doesn't help you can recompile MC to use termcap instead of
   terminfo:
-   
+
     ./configure --with-termcap
     make
-     
+
 4.2 Why don't line drawing characters work?
   Since version 4.0.13 there's the command line option -a to force use of
   +, |, - for line drawing (only available when compiled with S-Lang).
   Use this -a option if any of the suggestions below doesn't help.
-   
+
   In general, there are three cases:
     * Lines are shown as ASCII characters like this
@ -336,26 +333,24 @@ Questions and Answers
      +---------+
       This also happens when you use the -a option. Other than that
-       possible reason is 1, 2 or 3 (see below).
+       possible reason is 1 or 2 (see below).
     * Lines are shown as lower case characters like this
      lqqqqqqqqqk
      x         x
      mqqqqqqqqqj
-       Possible reason is 2 or 3 (see below).
+       Possible reason is 1 or 2 (see below).
     * Lines are shown as blanks or missing characters. Possible reason
-       is 3 or 4 (see below).
+       is 2 or 3 (see below).
-       
+
   The reason for the problem is one of following:
-    1. Your curses library might not support line drawing characters.
+    1. Your terminal might not support line drawing characters. Vt100
       S-Lang, ncurses and SystemV curses do support them, BSD curses
       doesn't. MC uses S-Lang by default so this is not usually a
       problem.
    2. Your terminal might not support line drawing characters. Vt100
       compatible terminals, rxvt, xterm and color_xterm do support them.
-    3. Your terminfo or termcap database might have missing or incorrect
+    2. Your terminfo or termcap database might have missing or incorrect
       definitions for line drawing characters. Set the acsc variable in
       the terminfo database like this:
       acsc=a\376k\277l\332m\300j\331n\305w\302v\301u\264t\303q\304x\263h
@ -364,70 +359,70 @@ Questions and Answers
       character set. The octal values might be different for other
       character sets. If you are using termcap instead of terminfo, you
       should modify above solution appropriately.
-    4. Your terminal font might not support line drawing characters. Try
+    3. Your terminal font might not support line drawing characters. Try
       changing the font.
-       
+
   Here is Miguel's answer to Torben on this subject.
-   
+
   Torben:
-   
+
     When I load consolefonts/iso01.f16, I get perfectly right national
     characters, but the line drawing characters in mc get wrong. Is it
     a mc problem, or is it a problem with the font? (I guess it is).
-     
+
     Is there a trick?
-     
+
   Miguel:
-   
+
     First of all, we should determine whether the font has line drawing
     characters or not.
-     
+
     If it has line drawing characters, then a new terminfo entry should
     be written for this specific case. Let's call this linux-iso01. The
     acsc variable should be modified to reflect which characters are
     used to do the line drawing.
-     
+
     If it does not have line drawing characters, then we should get rid
     of the switch to acsc sequences and make the acsc sequence be just
     a mapping to the ugly +, -, |, - characters.
-     
+
     You can get your terminfo definition by running the infocmp
     program, making the proper changes and running the tic program to
     compile your new terminfo database.
-     
+
 4.3 Can one use latin-1 characters without losing the lines?
   Yes, you need a correct font and a correct termcap/terminfo database.
-   
+
   For font, if you use xterm try "xterm -fn fixed".
-   
+
   For termcap/terminfo database, change the acsc capability in the
   database.
-   
+
 4.4 I have problems with entering/viewing national characters!
   Upgrade to version 4.0.12 or newer.
-   
+
   From the Options - Display Bits dialog select Full 8 bits or ISO
   8859-1. In addition, select 8 bit input from the same dialog.
-   
+
 4.5 How can I get colors?
   Invoke mc like this (without quotes): "mc -c".
-   
+
   If you get colors, be happy.
-   
+
   If your terminal stays black and white, your terminal doesn't support
   color. You might want to upgrade to a terminal which compatible with
   the ANSI color sequences.
-   
+
   If your terminal goes completely black, see the next question.
-   
+
   More detailed answer:
-   
+
-   First, check that your terminal supports color. color_xterm, rxvt and
+   Check that your terminal supports color. color_xterm, rxvt and Linux
-   Linux console do support, most other terminals don't. You can test
+   console do support, most other terminals don't. You can test color
-   color support with following simple C program:
+   support with following simple C program:
    #include <stdio.h>
@ -439,33 +434,32 @@ Questions and Answers
   Compile and run it. If you see "Hello world!" text in green your
   terminal supports color, otherwise not (however, for color_xterm see
   also the next question).
-   
+
-   Second, check that you are using Ncurses or the S-Lang library (type
+   Check whether you are using Ncurses or the S-Lang library (type
-   "mc -V" to find out), in addition some SystemV curses implementations
+   "mc -V" to find out).
-   do support color, most don't.
+
   With S-Lang library you can force color support by setting the
   environment variable COLORTERM to any value.
-   
+
-   Third, if you use ncurses library, check that your terminfo database
+   If you use ncurses library, check that your terminfo database supports
-   supports color. If not you should install one of the enhanced terminfo
+   color. If not, you should install one of the enhanced terminfo
   databases included in GNU Midnight Commander source distribution.
-   
+
-   Fourth, you might want to set the TERM environment variable so that
+   You might want to set the TERM environment variable so that you are
-   you use the correct terminfo database or termcap entry.
+   using the correct terminfo database or termcap entry.
-   
+
   If you use color_xterm (or rxvt) the correct value might be
   xterm-color, xtermc or simply xterm.
-   
+
   If you use Linux console the correct value for TERM is linux or
   console.
-   
+
 4.6 My color_xterm goes completely (or partially) black!
   Some color_xterm terminals define all colors as black instead of the
   standard ANSI colors. This makes them go completely black when you try
   to use Midnight Commander with colors.
-   
+
   You will have to override the defaults. Create a file "color.defaults"
   which has the following contents:
@ -482,7 +476,7 @@ Questions and Answers
   (replace color_xterm with the name of your color_xterm, color_xterm
   mentions its name in its title bar)
-   
+
   Now type:
    xrdb -merge color.defaults
@ -491,7 +485,7 @@ Questions and Answers
   file to your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file (or what ever the name of
   your X configuration file is). Or you can replace your non-ANSI
   color_xterm with an ANSI color_xterm.
-   
+
 4.7 Where can I get xterm or rxvt?
   xterm is included with the X Window System, so you probably already
@ -510,7 +504,7 @@ anymore!
   variable to a value which has no corresponding entry in termcap
   database those programs stop working. You should add the new value of
   TERM to the termcap database.
-   
+
   Example: If you have set TERM to xterm-color locate from /etc/termcap
   the line which starts:
@ -526,132 +520,132 @@ enough?
   You might want to read the Unix-Haters Handbook at
   http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/handbook.html. It lists many
   more reasons why Unix sucks.
-   
+
   You can configure which terminal database you want to use with the
   "--with-termcap" and "--with-terminfo" flags of configure. If you
   don't specify them, the configure script will try to use terminfo if
   available otherwise it will use termcap.
-   
+
 5 Graphical user interface
 5.1 Xview, Tk and Gnome editions?
   Xview and Tk and GNOME editions have been removed from the sources.
-   
+
 6 Command line problems
 6.1 How do I stay in the last directory when I exit Midnight Commander?
   See the description of the -P option in the Options section of the
   manual.
-   
+
 6.2 How can I access command line history?
   You can browse previous commands with M-p and M-n. Alternatively, you
   can summon the command history listbox by pressing F9 c h.
-   
+
   Since version 4.1.15 all the input widgets have permanent history. You
   can summon the history listbox by pressing M-h.
-   
+
 6.3 How can I complete commands, file names, variable names and so on?
   Just press M-Tab. Press M-Tab again to get a listbox if there are
   multiple possible completions.
-   
+
 6.4 I am using ksh. Can I use functions defined in the .kshrc within MC?
   Sorry, MC only supports bash, tcsh and zsh functions. Ksh functions
   are not supported because ksh lacks the necessary hooks needed for
   subshell integration.
-   
+
   Switch to bash or zsh. They are both quite compatible with ksh. Your
   ksh functions should work as such or after minimal changes.
-   
+
 6.5 Is there any way to include additional options or hot keys to MC?
   Yes, F2 invokes an user menu which fully configurable. You can add
   any shell commands to the user menu. See the mc(1) man page for more
   info.
-   
+
   Another way to add functionality is the external panelize feature.
   See the mc(1) man page for more info.
-   
+
   And finally, you can code any feature you want yourself. MC source
   code is free which means you can change it anyway you want. There are
   some limitations to make sure MC stays free. See GNU General Public
   License for details.
-   
+
 7 Virtual file systems
   Note! Virtual file systems are supported by Unix ports only. The
   Windows 95/NT and OS/2 ports do NOT support virtual file systems. This
   means you haven't got ftp, zip or tar support on Windows 95/NT and
   OS/2.
-   
+
   This chapter describes the behavior of the 4.1.x versions of the
   Midnight Commander. The behavior of the 4.5.x versions is somewhat
   different. More on that when the 4.5.x versions get more stable.
-   
+
 7.1 How can I see the contents of a tar archive?
   If you use keyboard just move the selection bar on the tar file and
   press enter.
-   
+
   If you use mouse just double-click on the tar file.
-   
+
   If these procedures don't work, your .mc.ext file is faulty. Replace
   it with one from the MC source distribution.
-   
+
   You can also enter a tar archive by typing "cd tar:filename.tar.gz"
   where filename.tar.gz is the name of the archive.
-   
+
   The recognized suffixes for tar archives are .tar, .tar.gz and .tgz.
   If your tar archive uses different suffix you have to rename it.
-   
+
 7.2 How do I get out of a tar archive?
   Just press enter on the toplevel ".." file or chdir to a non-tar
   directory. Just typing "cd" with no parameters is enough (it will take
   you to your home directory).
-   
+
 7.3 How do I do anonymous ftp with MC?
   Just type "cd ftp://hostname" where hostname is the name of the host
   you want to connect. Alternatively, select FTP link from the Left or
   Right menu and type the name of the host you want to connect.
-   
+
 7.4 How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC?
   Non-anonymous ftp works just like the anonymous ftp but you give the
   login name with the host name. For example, type "cd
   ftp://username@hostname".
-   
+
 7.5 How do I close an ftp connection?
   Just chdir to a non-ftp directory. Just typing "cd" with no parameters
   is enough (it will take you to your home directory).
-   
+
   Internally Midnight Commander closes ftp connection only after a
   timeout. This isn't visible to the end user.
-   
+
 7.6 Why aren't the contents of ftp panel updated?
   Update is skipped because there would be a serious performance
   penalty. Constantly updating directory panels through a ftp connection
   would take too much time.
-   
+
   You can use C-r to force an update.
-   
+
 7.7 What kind of proxy server works with Midnight Commander?
   There are two kinds of ftp proxies: proxies for ftp clients and
   proxies for web browsers.
-   
+
   Midnight Commander only supports ftp proxies which are meant for ftp
   clients. Common WWW proxies (like Squid) are not supported. A rule of
   thumb is that if a ftp proxy works with a web browser, it won't work
   with Midnight Commander.
-   
+
 8 Other common problems
 8.1 How do I get the internal editor to work?
@ -659,16 +653,16 @@ enough?
   The F4 key used to default to an external editor because that was what
   most people were used to. The newer versions use internal editor by
   default.
-   
+
   To use the internal editor with an old version, select Configuration
   from the Options menu and check the 'use internal edit' option.
-   
+
   Alternatively add the line
     use_internal_edit=1
   under the [Midnight-Commander] section in your .mc.ini file (which is
   in your home directory).
-   
+
   To make the editor work all the time, go to the default/* section in
   the file lib/mc/mc.ext file and remove the line
@ -676,28 +670,28 @@ enough?
   The internal editor will now be invoked for anything not specified
   elsewhere in the mc.ext file.
-   
+
   Make sure that you edit the correct mc.ext file. The Midnight
   Commander first checks the existence of $HOME/.mc.ext. If this file is
   missing MC will use $prefix/lib/mc/mc.ext instead ($prefix can be
   changed with configure before compilation and it defaults to
   /usr/local).
-   
+
   When you run `F9/Command/Extension file edit' for the very first time
   Midnight Commander copies the system-wide mc.ext from $prefix/lib/mc
   into your home directory because you need write access in order to
   change it.
-   
+
   And please don't forget that "make install" overwrites
   $prefix/lib/mc/mc.ext.
-   
+
 8.2 Is there any way to 'bookmark' favorite ftp-fs links?
   Use the directory hotlist. Just press control-backslash. If your
   national keyboard layout doesn't have backslash key, just press the
   control key with the key which is the backslash key in the English
   keyboard layout.
-   
+
 8.3 Why I keep getting: "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk
 into drive D:"?
@ -705,11 +699,11 @@ into drive D:"?
   configuration files from the D:\MC directory and if the D: drive is a
   removable drive (like a CD ROM drive) and there is no disk in drive
   you get this message every time you try to do anything.
-   
+
   Since version 4.0.6 you can specify the actual location of the
   Midnight Commander configuration files with the MCHOME environment
   variable.
-   
+
 8.4 When I start Midnight Commander, nothing happens!
   First, invoke MC without subshell support: "mc -u". If this helps
@ -717,16 +711,16 @@ into drive D:"?
   although tcsh and zsh are also supported. You might want to upgrade
   your shell to a newer version. If you use something else than bash,
   tcsh or zsh, subshell support is disabled automatically.
-   
+
   If disabling subshell doesn't help, try to reconfigure MC with
   "--with-included-slang" and "--with-termcap" options and recompile.
   If this helps, there is something wrong with your terminfo database
   or shared S-Lang library. For better terminfo databases see chapter
   4. For a better S-Lang library, upgrade to a newer version or keep
   using the "--with-included-slang" option.
-   
+
   This problem can also be caused by gpm as noted by Luis Espinoza:
-   
+
     In regards to why Midnight Commander does nothing when invoked. I
     recently had the same problem. At the same time gpm was not loading
     properly with my patched kernel (now 2.0.33 from 2.0.30).
@ -752,11 +746,11 @@ into drive D:"?
     * Paul Sheer (joined Nov 1 1996)
     * Norbert Warmuth
     * Alex I. Tkachenko
-       
+
   Alessandro Rubini has been specially helpful with debugging and
   enhancing of the mouse support. John E. Davis has made his S-Lang
   library available to us and answered many questions about it.
-   
+
   Many people have contributed bug reports, feature suggestions and
   small code bits (alphabetical order):
     * Thomasz Cholewo
@ -777,26 +771,26 @@ into drive D:"?
     * Vadim Sinolits
     * Jon Stevens
     * Adam Tla/lka
-       
+
 9.2 Do I dare to use a development version?
   I am afraid you have to answer to this question yourself. Development
   versions seldom cause data loss but they have usually got many bugs.
   It's up to you to judge whether new features outweigh the bugs.
-   
+
 9.3 How can I report a bug/request for a feature?
   You might first want to get the newest development version to see if
   the bug is fixed or the feature is added already.
-   
+
   Send your report/request to mc-devel@gnome.org or mc@gnome.org. These
   mailing lists are the most certain way to contact the
   developers. Remember to mention if you are not on the mailing list
   to make sure that you will receive a copy of replies.
-   
+
   Give as much details as possible. A too long message is a lot better
   than a too short message.
-   
+
   For segmentation faults a stack backtrace is appreciated. You can
   produce stack backtrace as follows:
     * If segmentation fault produced a core file:
@ -814,19 +808,19 @@ into drive D:"?
            command in your shell to allow producing of the core files.
            Usually it is "limit coredumpsize unlimited" or "ulimit
            coredumpsize" or "ulimit -c unlimited".
-       
+
 9.4 How can I join the development?
   To join the development just code the feature you want to add and send
   your patch for inclusion. Email address is mc-devel@gnome.org.
   Before you start coding check the latest development version. It might
   be that your feature has already been implemented.
-   
+
   Note that the authors of GNU Midnight Commander have given all their
   rights on the program to the Free Software Foundation. You will have
   to do the same if you contribute non-trivial patches. Otherwise we
   have to reject your patches in order to avoid copyright problems.
-   
+
 10 More information
 10.1 This document didn't answer my question. Where else can I look for an
@ -834,38 +828,38 @@ answer?
   Read messages from the Discussion (mailing list archive) or read the
   Manual.
-   
+
   Upgrade to a newer version of Midnight Commander. Many problems are
   fixed in the new versions.
-   
+
   If you still can't find an answer, post your question to the Midnight
   Commander mailing list. Its address is mc@gnome.org.
-   
+
 10.2 What mailing lists are there for Midnight Commander?
   Following mailing lists discuss about Midnight Commander:
-   
+
   mc@gnome.org
          General discussion of GNU Midnight Commander
          To subscribe visit
          http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc/
-          
+
   mc-devel@gnome.org
          Technical development discussion
          To subscribe visit
          http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel/
-          
+
 10.3 Where should I look on the World Wide Web for MC stuff?
   There is a WWW page for Midnight Commander. The URL is:
-   
+
     http://www.gnome.org/mc/
-     
+
 10.4 Are the mailing lists archived anywhere?
   The mc and mc-devel lists are archived on the World Wide Web. There are
   links to the archives on the mailing list pages (see 10.2).
-   
+
 11 Legal issues
 11.1 Authorship
@ -873,17 +867,17 @@ answer?
   Questions and Answers was written by Janne Kukonlehto. Parts of it
   originate from Ian Jackson, Miguel de Icaza, Dugan Porter, Norbert
   Warmuth and Paul Sheer.
-   
+
 11.2 Feedback is invited
   Send your comments about this document and GNU Midnight Commander to
   mc@gnome.org
-   
+
 11.3 Disclaimer and copyright
   Note that this document is provided as is. The information in it is
   not warranted to be correct; you use it at your own risk.
-   
+
   You can use Questions and Answers according to GNU Public License (see
   the COPYING file in GNU Midnight Commander source distribution).
   Questions and Answers is not public domain.
--- a/36
+++ b/36
@ -172,9 +172,6 @@ better than everything else),
     example, if you have installed ncurses under /gnu/lib and
     /gnu/include, you specify: --with-ncurses=/gnu
 Support for traditional UNIX curses (not ncurses) is obsolete and will be 
 removed.
   Run `configure --help' to see the full list of options.
   On systems that require unusual options for compilation or linking
@ -343,18 +340,11 @@ Midnight Commander.  The included library is very stable and has been
 used for years without problems.  You shouldn't expect any problems
 porting S-Lang to your platform.
-Another possibility is to download and install ncurses on your OS. The
+Another possibility is to download and install ncurses on your OS.
-Midnight Commander can use ncurses as well as the display engine. However,
+GNU Midnight Commander can use ncurses as well as the display engine.
-you may encounter minor differences, for instance, you will be unable to
+However, you may encounter minor differences, for instance, you will
-force the color mode by giving the "-c" switch to GNU Midnight Commander.
+be unable to force the color mode by giving the "-c" switch to GNU
-
+Midnight Commander.
 As the last resort, you may try to use the curses library supplied with
 your OS. Beware that some systems, e.g. SystemV Release 4, include the
 curses library with bugs critical to GNU Midnight Commander. You may try
 to recompile all your source code with the symbol BUGGY_CURSES defined,
 i.e.
 make clean; make CFLAGS="-g -O -DBUGGY_CURSES"
 Obtaining the missing pieces of GNU Midnight Commander
@ -402,19 +392,3 @@ And the GNU Compiler Collection may be obtained from the following sites:
 ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/
 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/
 http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
 Unsupported, deprecated and possibly broken options to configure:
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 `--with-vcurses[=directory]'
     Use this flag to force GNU Midnight Commander to use a SystemV
     type curses, the optional directory specifies where the compiler 
     should look for the include files.
 `--with-sunos-curses'
     You use this flag on SunOS machines if you want to force using
     SunOS 4.x curses.
 `--with-bsd-curses'
     If you don't want to use ncurses and are using an Ultrix box, you
     can use this switch.  Be aware that ncurses is a better option
     than the curses included in Ultrix.
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@ -613,38 +613,6 @@ fi
 rm -f conftest*]
 )
 AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_SUNOS_CURSES], [
 	search_ncurses=false
 	screen_manager="SunOS 4.x /usr/5include curses"
 	AC_MSG_RESULT([Using SunOS 4.x /usr/5include curses])
 	AC_DEFINE(USE_SUNOS_CURSES)
 	AC_DEFINE(NO_COLOR_CURSES)
 	AC_DEFINE(USE_SYSV_CURSES)
 	CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/5include"
 	XCURSES="xcurses.o /usr/5lib/libcurses.a /usr/5lib/libtermcap.a"
 	AC_MSG_RESULT([Please note that some screen refreshs may fail])
 	AC_MSG_WARN([Reconsider using Slang])
 ])
 AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_OSF1_CURSES], [
       AC_MSG_RESULT([Using OSF1 curses])
       search_ncurses=false
       screen_manager="OSF1 curses"
       AC_DEFINE(NO_COLOR_CURSES)
       AC_DEFINE(USE_SYSV_CURSES)
       XCURSES="xcurses.o"
       LIBS="$LIBS -lcurses"
 ])
 AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_SYSV_CURSES], [
 	AC_MSG_RESULT([Using SysV curses])
 	AC_DEFINE(USE_SYSV_CURSES)
 	XCURSES=""
 	search_ncurses=false
 	screen_manager="SysV/curses"
 	LIBS="$LIBS -lcurses"
 ])
 AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_TERMINFO], [
 	AC_DEFINE(SLANG_TERMINFO)
 	AC_MSG_RESULT([Using SLang screen manager/terminfo])
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@ -308,51 +308,6 @@ search_ncurses=false
 XCURSES=""
 AC_SUBST(XCURSES)
 dnl AC_ARG_WITH(bsd-curses,
 dnl [--with-bsd-curses         Used to compile with bsd curses, not very fancy],
 dnl 	[search_ncurses=false
 dnl	screen_manager="Ultrix/cursesX"
 dnl	case $host_os in
 dnl	ultrix*)
 dnl	    THIS_CURSES=cursesX
 dnl	    ;;
 dnl	*)
 dnl	    THIS_CURSES=curses
 dnl	    ;;
 dnl	esac
 dnl
 dnl	LIBS="$LIBS -l$THIS_CURSES -ltermcap"
 dnl	AC_DEFINE(USE_BSD_CURSES)
 dnl	XCURSES="xcurses.o"
 dnl	AC_MSG_RESULT([Please note that some screen refreshs may fail])
 dnl	AC_MSG_WARN([Use of the bsdcurses extension has some])
 dnl	AC_MSG_WARN([display/input problems.])
 dnl	AC_MSG_WARN([Reconsider using xcurses])
 dnl])
 AC_ARG_WITH(sunos-curses,
 	[--with-sunos-curses        Used to force SunOS 4.x curses],[
 	if test x$withval = xyes; then
 		AC_USE_SUNOS_CURSES
 	fi
 ])
 AC_ARG_WITH(osf1-curses,
 	[--with-osf1-curses	   Used to force OSF/1 curses],[
 	if test x$withval = xyes; then
 		AC_USE_OSF1_CURSES
 	fi
 ])
 AC_ARG_WITH(vcurses,
 	[--with-vcurses[=incdir]    Used to force SysV curses],
 	[if test x$withval = xyes; then :
        else
 		CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$withval"
 	fi
 	AC_USE_SYSV_CURSES
 ])
 mouse_lib="xterm only"
 LGPM=""
 case $host_os in
@ -714,38 +669,9 @@ then
    AC_NCURSES(/usr/include/ncurses, curses.h, -lncurses, -I/usr/include/ncurses -DRENAMED_NCURSES, "renamed ncurses on /usr/include/ncurses")
    dnl
    dnl We couldn't find ncurses, try SysV curses
    dnl
    if $search_ncurses 
    then
        AC_EGREP_HEADER(init_color, /usr/include/curses.h,
 	    AC_USE_SYSV_CURSES)
 	AC_EGREP_CPP(USE_NCURSES,[
 #include <curses.h>
 #ifdef __NCURSES_H
 #undef USE_NCURSES
 USE_NCURSES
 #endif
 ],[
 	CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DRENAMED_NCURSES"
        AC_DEFINE(USE_NCURSES)
        search_ncurses=false
        screen_manager="ncurses installed as curses"
 ])
    fi
    dnl
    dnl Try SunOS 4.x /usr/5{lib,include} ncurses
    dnl The flags USE_SUNOS_CURSES, USE_BSD_CURSES and BUGGY_CURSES
    dnl should be replaced by a more fine grained selection routine
    dnl
    if $search_ncurses
    then
-	if test -f /usr/5include/curses.h
+	:
 	then
 	    AC_USE_SUNOS_CURSES
        fi
    else
        # check for ncurses version, to properly ifdef mouse-fix
 	AC_MSG_CHECKING([for ncurses version])