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+<sect2><title>Contents of Ncurses</title>
+
+<para>Last checked against version &ncurses-contversion;.</para>
+
+<para>The Ncurses package provides character and terminal handling
+libraries, including panels and menus.</para>
+
+<para>Ncurses installs the following:</para>
+
+<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<para>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic),
+reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput and tset.</para></sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>Library Files</title>
+<para>libcurses.[a,so] (link to libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so],
+libform_g.a, libmenu.[a,so], libmenu_g.a, libncurses++.a,
+libncurses.[a,so], libncurses_g.a, libpanel.[a,so] and
+libpanel_g.a</para></sect3>
+
+</sect2>