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* [http://www.c-for-dummies.com/ncurses/ A book about Ncurses]
* [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
* [http://invisible-island.net/cdk/ CDK (Curses Development Kit)], a collection of ready-to-use widgets
* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1124 Eric S. Raymond about the history of ncurses]

Revision as of 08:32, 29 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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