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

• [1]
• Eric S. Raymond: A Hacker's Guide to NCURSES - (Outdated but still useful)