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Libraries for character oriented user interfaces with standardised UNIX functions that provide rudimentary screen handling and updating of text-based windowing. It is a very basic API and is commonly used on UNIX like systems as a sort of lowest common denominator for a text user interface. Curses libraries are available for various operating systems. Although most commonly used with a text mode C programs the API can also be used from other programming languages and is quite often used with scripting languages such as REXX (typically via Rexx/Curses).

Implementations

Note that PDCurses is just one of may curses libraries out there. nCurses, P Curses and PC Curses exist or have been ported to OS/2 at some point in time.

BSD curses - included with emx
pcurses
PD Curses
NCurses - requires GNU terminfo

Publications

John Strang: Programming with curses - O’Reilly 1986

Links

X/Open-Standard

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-Libraries for character oriented user interfaces.
+Libraries for character oriented user interfaces with standardised UNIX functions that provide rudimentary screen handling and updating of text-based windowing. It is a very basic [[API]] and is commonly used on UNIX like systems as a sort of lowest common denominator for a text user interface. Curses libraries are available for various operating systems. Although most commonly used with a text mode [[C]] programs the API can also be used from other programming languages and is quite often used with scripting languages such as [[REXX]] (typically via [[Rexx/Curses]]).
 ==Implementations==
+Note that PDCurses is just one of may curses libraries out there. [[nCurses]], P Curses and PC Curses exist or have been ported to OS/2 at some point in time.
 *BSD curses - included with [[emx]]
 *pcurses