ncurses
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ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals. It is written in a way that attempts to optimize the commands that are sent to the terminal, to reduce the latency experienced when updating the displayed content.
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Vinony's link graph records 90 inbound references to ncurses, and connects out to MIT License, text-based user interface and curses.
Vinony files it under C (programming language) libraries, Free software programmed in Ada and Free software programmed in C.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ncurses
- Software.screenshot
- Linux-menuconfig.png
- Software.caption
- ncurses-based menuconfig
- Software.developer
- Thomas E. Dickey, Juergen Pfeifer, Eric S. Raymond, Alexander V Lukyanov, Philippe Blain, Sven Verdoolaege, Nicolas Boulenguez et al.
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- POSIX
- Software.genre
- Widget toolkit
- Software.license
- X11
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- GNU Project
- Official website
- invisible-mirror.net/ncurses
- Image
- Linux-menuconfig.png
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- operating system
- macOS
- Commons category
- Ncurses
- topic's main category
- Category:Ncurses
- software version identifier
- 6.6
- source code repository URL
- ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/
- programmed in
- C
- copyright license
- X11 license
- inception
- 1993-00-00
- copyright holder
- الجميع
- mailing list archive URL
- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- curses
- pcurses
- ncurses
- Terminal database
- License
- Programs using ncurses
- See also
- References
- External links
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals. It is written in a way that attempts to optimize the commands that are sent to the terminal, to reduce the latency experienced when updating the displayed content.
ncurses is a free and open-source software emulation of curses from System V Release 4.0 (SVr4).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ncurses” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.