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NCurses offers support for 256-color terminals.
NCurses offers support for 256-color terminals.
== Links ==
* [http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html Ncurses FAQ]
* [http://www.c-for-dummies.com/ncurses/ A book about Ncurses]
* [http://invisible-island.net/cdk/ CDK (Curses Development Kit)], a collection of ready-to-use widgets

Revision as of 22:49, 28 January 2010

NCurses
Library project
Developer Zeyd Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Juergen Pfeifer, Thomas Dickey
Released 1993 (1.8.1)
Updated Nov 02 2008 (5.7)
Status Stable
Licensing MIT
P. Language C, Ada
Platforms Unix, Linux
Dependencies
Official site of NCurses


NCurses is the default curses library on the Linux platform. It started as a spin-off from Pavel Curtis' pcurses library.

As an extension to the standard curses functions, NCurses offers a form and menu library which allows to create advanced user interfaces.

NCurses offers support for 256-color terminals.


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