Ncurses

Ncurses - Displays and updates text on text-only terminals

The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0 and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms charcters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD curses. It should port easily to any ANSI/POSIX-conforming UNIX-like system. On systems supporting libiconv, the library can be built to support wide- and multibyte-character applications, e.g., UTF-8.

The distribution includes the library and support utilities, including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.

Obtaining

Web page	http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.html
Source tarball	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.3.tar.gz

Version 5.4 (stable) released on 2004-02-13

Licensed under an X11-style license.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual included

Support contacts

Help List	<bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
Developer List	<bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
Bug List	<bug-ncurses@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	TE Dickey <dickey@herndon4.his.com>
Developers	Zeyd Ben-Halim <zmbenhal@netcom.com> Eric Raymond Thomas Dickey <dickey@herndon4.his.com> Juergen Pfeifer <juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net>
Contributors	Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@yars.free.net>

Related information

Interfaces	library, command line
Source languages	C
Supported languages	C, C++, Ada95
Build prerequisites	awk, sed, make
Weak prerequisites	C++ compiler, Ada95 compiler
Related programs	Screen, Lynx

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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