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+<sect2>
+<title>Contents</title>
+
+<para>
+The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form
+libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toe and tset
+programs.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Description</title>
+
+<sect3><title>The libraries</title>
+
+<para>
+The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text
+(often in a fancy way) on your screen. An example where ncurses is used
+is in the kernel's <quote>make menuconfig</quote> process. The libraries
+contain routines to create panels, menu's, form and general text display
+routines.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>Tic</title>
+
+<para>
+Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a
+terminfo file from source format into the binary format for use with the
+ncurses library routines. Terminfo files contain information about the
+capabilities of your terminal.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>Infocmp</title>
+
+<para>
+The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with
+other
+terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of
+the
+use=  terminfo field, or print  out  a  terminfo  description  from the
+binary
+file (term) in a variety of formats (the opposite of what tic does).
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>clear</title>
+
+<para>
+The clear program clears your screen if this is possible.  It looks in
+the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database
+to
+figure out how to clear the screen.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>tput</title>
+
+<para>
+The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of
+terminal-dependent capabilities and  information available to the shell,
+to
+initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the
+requested
+terminal type.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>toe</title>
+
+<para>
+The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with
+descriptions.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3><title>tset</title>
+
+<para>
+The Tset program initializes terminals so they can be used, but it's not
+widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+</sect2>
+