As jlam requested, I am posting the following for review on the tech-pkg
mailing list. (Below it should say that I tested under Linux and NetBSD.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:46:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: jlam@NetBSD.org
Subject: my #23103: ncurses provide reset, tset, tput, clear

Can I apply the following for devel/ncurses?

This is regarding PR #23103.

This is the fix. Test under NetBSD and Linux. It appears that tools work
fine under NetBSD too. (Also removed patch-ab.)

cvs server: Diffing devel/ncurses
Index: devel/ncurses/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -b -u -r1.52 Makefile
--- devel/ncurses/Makefile	2003/11/23 07:12:01	1.52
+++ devel/ncurses/Makefile	2003/12/03 23:45:55
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 DISTNAME=		ncurses-${NC_VERS}
 NC_VERS=		5.3
-PKGREVISION=		1
+PKGREVISION=		2
 CATEGORIES=		devel
 MASTER_SITES=		${MASTER_SITE_GNU:=ncurses/} \
 			ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ \
@@ -45,12 +45,8 @@
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-default-terminfo-dir=${PREFIX}/${TERMINFODIR}
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-terminfo-dirs=${PREFIX}/${TERMINFODIR}

-# Remove these manpages from the distribution so they won't get installed
-CURSES_NO_MAN=		clear.1 tput.1 tset.1
-
 post-configure:
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/man;					\
-	${RM} -f ${CURSES_NO_MAN};				\
 	for f in *.1m; do					\
 		${MV} -f $${f} `${BASENAME} $${f} .1m`.1; 	\
 	done;							\
Index: devel/ncurses/PLIST
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/PLIST,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -b -u -r1.4 PLIST
--- devel/ncurses/PLIST	2003/03/31 16:20:01	1.4
+++ devel/ncurses/PLIST	2003/12/03 23:46:00
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 @comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.4 2003/03/31 16:20:01 bouyer Exp $
 bin/captoinfo
+bin/clear
 bin/infocmp
 bin/infotocap
+bin/reset
 bin/tack
 bin/tic
 bin/toe
+bin/tput
+bin/tset
 include/cursesapp.h
 include/cursesf.h
 include/cursesm.h
@@ -47,11 +51,15 @@
 lib/libpanel.so.5
 lib/libpanel.so.5.3
 man/man1/captoinfo.1
+man/man1/clear.1
 man/man1/infocmp.1
 man/man1/infotocap.1
+man/man1/reset.1
 man/man1/tack.1
 man/man1/tic.1
 man/man1/toe.1
+man/man1/tput.1
+man/man1/tset.1
 man/man3/COLOR_PAIR.3
 man/man3/PAIR_NUMBER.3
 man/man3/_nc_tracebits.3
cvs server: Diffing devel/ncurses/patches
cvs server: cannot find devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ab