Ncurses

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NCurses
Library project
Developer Zeyd Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Juergen Pfeifer, Thomas Dickey
Released May 05 1997 (4.1)
Updated Nov 02 2008 (5.7)
Status Stable
Licensing MIT
P. Language C, Ada
Platforms Unix, Linux
Dependencies
Official site of NCurses


NCurses is the default curses library on the Linux platform. It started as a spin-off from Pavel Curtis' pcurses library.

As an extension to the standard curses functions, NCurses offers a form and menu library which allows to create advanced user interfaces.

NCurses offers support for 256-color terminals.