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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Jexer currently supports three backends:
 
 Additional backends can be created by subclassing
 jexer.backend.Backend and passing it into the TApplication
-constructor.
+constructor.  See Demo5 and Demo6 for examples of other backends.
 
 The Jexer homepage, which includes additional information and binary
 release downloads, is at: https://jexer.sourceforge.io .  The Jexer
@@ -183,18 +183,27 @@ The following properties control features of Jexer:
   jexer.Swing.cursorStyle
   -----------------------
 
-  Used by jexer.io.SwingScreen.  Selects the cursor style to draw.
-  Valid values are: underline, block, outline.  Default: underline.
+  Used by jexer.backend.SwingTerminal.  Selects the cursor style to
+  draw.  Valid values are: underline, block, outline.  Default:
+  underline.
 
   jexer.Swing.tripleBuffer
   ------------------------
 
-  Used by jexer.io.SwingScreen.  If true, use triple-buffering which
-  reduces screen tearing but may also be slower to draw on slower
-  systems.  If false, use naive Swing thread drawing, which may be
-  faster on slower systems but also more likely to have screen
+  Used by jexer.backend.SwingTerminal.  If true, use triple-buffering
+  which reduces screen tearing but may also be slower to draw on
+  slower systems.  If false, use naive Swing thread drawing, which may
+  be faster on slower systems but also more likely to have screen
   tearing.  Default: true.
 
+  jexer.TTerminal.ptypipe
+  -----------------------
+
+  Used by jexer.TTerminalWindow.  If true, spawn shell using the
+  'ptypipe' utility rather than 'script'.  This permits terminals to
+  resize with the window.  ptypipe is a separate C language utility,
+  available at https://github.com/klamonte/ptypipe.  Default: false.
+
 
 
 Known Issues / Arbitrary Decisions
@@ -212,15 +221,20 @@ ambiguous.  This section describes such issues.
     input (see the ENABLE_LINE_INPUT flag for GetConsoleMode() and
     SetConsoleMode()).
 
-  - TTerminalWindow launches 'script -fqe /dev/null' or 'script -q -F
-    /dev/null' on non-Windows platforms.  This is a workaround for the
-    C library behavior of checking for a tty: script launches $SHELL
-    in a pseudo-tty.  This works on Linux and Mac but might not on
-    other Posix-y platforms.
+  - TTerminalWindow by default launches 'script -fqe /dev/null' or
+    'script -q -F /dev/null' on non-Windows platforms.  This is a
+    workaround for the C library behavior of checking for a tty:
+    script launches $SHELL in a pseudo-tty.  This works on Linux and
+    Mac but might not on other Posix-y platforms.
 
   - Closing a TTerminalWindow without exiting the process inside it
     may result in a zombie 'script' process.
 
+  - TTerminalWindow can only notify the child process of changes in
+    window size if using the 'ptypipe' utility, due to Java's lack of
+    support for forkpty() and similar.  ptypipe is available at
+    https://github.com/klamonte/ptypipe.
+
   - Java's InputStreamReader as used by the ECMA48 backend requires a
     valid UTF-8 stream.  The default X10 encoding for mouse
     coordinates outside (160,94) can corrupt that stream, at best
@@ -235,9 +249,9 @@ ambiguous.  This section describes such issues.
     check the current window size, performing the same function as
     ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ) but without requiring a native library.
 
-  - jexer.io.ECMA48Terminal calls 'stty' to perform the equivalent of
-    cfmakeraw() when using System.in/out.  System.out is also
-    (blindly!) put in 'stty sane cooked' mode when exiting.
+  - jexer.backend.ECMA48Terminal calls 'stty' to perform the
+    equivalent of cfmakeraw() when using System.in/out.  System.out is
+    also (blindly!) put in 'stty sane cooked' mode when exiting.