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        !            18: .tp
        !            19: .(l C
        !            20: .ps 12
        !            21: .ft B
        !            22: Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization:
        !            23: .fl
        !            24: A Library Package
        !            25: .ft
        !            26: .ps
        !            27: .sp
        !            28: .i "Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold"
        !            29: .sp
        !            30: Computer Science Division
        !            31: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
        !            32: University of California, Berkeley
        !            33: Berkeley, California  94720
        !            34: .sp 3
        !            35: .bi ABSTRACT
        !            36: .sp 2
        !            37: .)l
        !            38: .(q
        !            39: .pp
        !            40: This document describes a package of C library functions
        !            41: which allow the user to:
        !            42: .ie t .ip \ \ \ \(bu
        !            43: .el .ip 1)
        !            44: update a screen with reasonable optimization,
        !            45: .ie t .ip \ \ \ \(bu
        !            46: .el .ip 2)
        !            47: get input from the terminal
        !            48: in a screen-oriented fashion,
        !            49: and
        !            50: .ie t .ip \ \ \ \(bu
        !            51: .el .ip 3)
        !            52: independent from the above, move the cursor optimally
        !            53: from one point to another.
        !            54: .pp
        !            55: These routines all use the
        !            56: \*(tc \*(db to describe the capabilities of the terminal.
        !            57: .)q
        !            58: .b Acknowledgements
        !            59: .pp
        !            60: This package would not exist
        !            61: without the work of Bill Joy,
        !            62: who,
        !            63: in writing his editor,
        !            64: created the capability to generally describe terminals,
        !            65: wrote the routines which read this \*(db,
        !            66: and, most importantly,
        !            67: those which implement optimal cursor movement,
        !            68: which routines I have simply lifted nearly intact.
        !            69: Doug Merritt and Kurt Shoens also were extremely important,
        !            70: as were both willing to waste time listening to me rant and rave.
        !            71: The help and/or support of
        !            72: Ken Abrams,
        !            73: Alan Char,
        !            74: Mark Horton,
        !            75: and
        !            76: Joe Kalash,
        !            77: was, and is,
        !            78: also greatly appreciated.
        !            79: .sp 2
        !            80: Revised 16 April 1986

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