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curses (programming library)
Terminal control library enabling construction of text user interfaces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications.
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Developer(s) | Ken Arnold |
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Initial release | 1978[1] |
Written in | C |
Type | Widget toolkit |
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The name is a pun on the term "cursor optimization". It is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals (e.g., VT100).[2]
ncurses is the approved replacement for 4.4BSD classic curses.