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NCurses | |
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Library project | |
Developer | Zeyd Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Juergen Pfeifer, Thomas Dickey |
Released | 1993 (1.8.1) |
Updated | Apr 04 2011 (5.9) |
Status | Stable |
Licensing | MIT |
P. Language | C, Ada |
Platforms | Unix, Linux |
Dependencies | |
Official site of NCurses |
NCurses is the default curses text-mode screen handling 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.
Links
- Ncurses FAQ
- A book about Ncurses
- CDK (Curses Development Kit), a collection of ready-to-use widgets
- Eric S. Raymond about the history of ncurses