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| 2 | Current history:
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| 4 | 2003/10/18 1.01 Fix some logic in pad.c, improve bce test.
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| 5 | 2003/09/20 Modified to allow running from compiled-in terminfo.
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| 6 | 2001/10/20 Make menu titles agree with descriptions.
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| 7 | 2000/03/04 Fix a few spelling errors
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| 8 | 1999/09/04 Minor fix to build/link on BeOS
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| 9 | 1999/05/16 Minor fix to build/link on CLIX
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| 10 | 1999/05/09 Update to build/link on NeXT
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| 11 | 1999/04/17 Update to work with ncurses 5.0 beta1 (TERMTYPE struct)
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| 12 | 1999/02/07 Build with ncurses 4.2 981219 (renamed function)
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| 13 | 1998/01/09 1.00 First release under GPL
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| 14 | 1997/12/24 0.02 First version that requires ncurses
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| 15 | 1997/10/29 0.01 Second beta release to the ncurses mailing list.
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| 16 | 1997/10/06 0.00 First beta release to the ncurses mailing list.
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| 18 | Ancient history: TACK -- the terminfo action checker
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| 20 | The purpose of this program is to verify the correctness of
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| 21 | terminfos and to calculate the pads needed for each capability.
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| 22 | This program is not designed to test curses and therefore uses
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| 23 | as little of curses as possible.
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| 25 | This program was originally called TED. In 1991 it was
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| 26 | released to USENET in comp.sources. TED was originally written to
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| 27 | test both terminfos and termcaps. The original intent was to
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| 28 | create a terminfo editor. This code fell quite short of its goal.
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| 29 | Tests were controlled by command line switches and editing was done
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| 30 | with pen and paper.
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| 32 | In 1995 Eric S. Raymond got interested in the program and added
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| 33 | a first cut at making the program menu driven. He also converted
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| 34 | the code from K&R C to an ANSI/POSIX-conforming C. He re-christened
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| 35 | the program TAC (Terminfo Action Checker). Eric also wrote a man
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| 36 | page for TAC.
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| 38 | In 1997 I decided to dust off the code and make it easier to
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| 39 | use by the novice. I totally rewrote the menu system and added
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| 40 | the editing features I originally planned for TED. I also did
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| 41 | a total rewrite of the code that does the timings. In the process
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| 42 | of rewriting the code I changed it to be more tightly coupled
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| 43 | with ncurses. By this time someone had taken the name TAC so
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| 44 | I re-christened the program TACK.
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| 46 | Daniel Weaver
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| 47 | <danw@znyx.com>
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