NCurses

The ncurses (new curses) library is an open source multi-platform version of the curses programming library from System V Release 4.0.

Unlike PD Curses it requires a database of terminal specifications, which is a part of separate package called terminfo.

Support utilities

 * captoinfo - a termcap conversion tool
 * clear - utility for clearing the screen
 * infocmp - the terminfo decompiler
 * tabs - set tabs on a terminal
 * tic - terminfo compiler
 * toe - table of terminfo entries
 * tput - utility for retrieving terminal capabilities in shell scripts
 * tset - initialize the terminal

Version

 * 1.8.1 (Nov 1993)
 * 1.9 (1995-04-20)
 * 1.9.9g (1996-11-30)
 * 4.0 (1996-12-24)
 * 4.1 (1997-05-15)
 * 4.2 (1998-03-02)
 * 5.5 ncurses-5.5-os2.zip
 * 5.9 (2011-04-04)
 * 6.0 (2015-10-10)
 * 6.1 (2018-01-27)

License

 * Open source, originally in the public domain, current version released under a functional equivalent of the MIT License
 * Authors: Zeyd M. Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Thomas E. Dickey

Publications

 * Dan Gookin: Programmer’s Guide to NCurses - Wiley 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-10759-1

Links

 * 
 * Eric S. Raymond: A Hacker's Guide to NCURSES - (Outdated but still useful)