screen should look and lets curses handle the work. The curses API is described in several places. Most implementations of curses use a database that can...
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of the BSD distribution at this point included the curses programming library by Ken Arnold. curses enabled a programmer to place characters at any point...
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Ncdu (category Curses (programming library))
utility, but ncdu uses a text-based user interface under the [n]curses programming library. Users can navigate the list using the arrow keys and delete files...
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book Spawn Curses (anthology), a 1989 collection of fantasy and science fiction stories Curses (programming library), a programming library for Unix and...
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PDCurses (category Curses (programming library))
software programming library for DOS, OS/2, Windows, X11 and SDL2. It is a continuation of the original curses system - while development of curses ended...
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Ncurses (redirect from New curses)
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...
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Lynx (web browser) (category Curses (programming library))
Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2025[update], it is the oldest web browser...
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Moria (1983 video game) (category Curses (programming library))
James E. Wilson started converting the VMS Pascal source code to the C programming language for use on UNIX systems, which had started to become popular...
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terminal control library curses, or ncurses (a mostly compatible library), or the alternative S-Lang library. The advent of the curses library with Berkeley...
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Nvi (category Curses (programming library))
only available on POSIX/Unix platforms due to its reliance on the curses/ncurses library. An unmaintained, multilingual version by the late Jun-ichiro itojun...
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Pine (email client) (category Curses (programming library))
"Pine Is Nearly Elm". Over time, it was changed by the university to mean Program for Internet News and E-mail. The original announcement said: "Pine was...
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Ancient Domains of Mystery (category Curses (programming library))
Ancient Domains of Mystery is a roguelike video game designed and developed by Thomas Biskup and released in 1994. The player's goal is to stop the forces...
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Vile (text editor) (category Curses (programming library))
presented in Chapter 12 of the O'Reilly book "Learning the vi Editor". The program is also known as xvile for the X Window System, and as winvile for Microsoft...
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Tin (newsreader) (category Curses (programming library))
developers improved the adaptability by making it work with terminfo or curses—again improving portability. Other changes, such as localization using gettext...
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password management program Dialog (software) "Curses-Devkit-4.9.3.readme". August 15, 1997. Retrieved October 5, 2013. "CDK – Curses Development Kit —...
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entries cannot exceed 4,096 bytes in size. Curses (programming library) tput Horton, Mark. "The New Curses and Terminfo Package". USENIX Conference Proceedings...
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delivermail (the ancestor of sendmail), "reliable" signals, and the Curses programming library. In a 1985 review of BSD releases, John Quarterman et al., wrote:...
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Nmon (category Curses (programming library))
system allow. There are two runtime modes available: In Online Mode it uses curses for efficient screen handling, which updates the terminal frequently for...
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the many sequences Computer terminal Curses (programming library) Terminfo Terminal emulator The GNU Termcap Library Peter H. Salus, "The history of Unix...
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concept and to libraries like termcap and curses that build atop it. Stevens adds three chapters giving more concrete examples of Unix programming: he implements...
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S-Lang (redirect from S-Lang (programming library))
The S-Lang programming library is a software library for Unix, Windows, VMS, OS/2, and Mac OS X. It provides routines for embedding an interpreter for...
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The Curse of Oak Island is a reality television series that premiered on January 5, 2014. The program features the Oak Island mystery. As of May 20, 2025...
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GNU Readline (category Text user interface libraries)
GNU Readline is a software library that provides in-line editing and history capabilities for interactive programs with a command-line interface, such...
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Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) the wait cursor can be controlled by CWaitCursor. If a local instance is created, the wait cursor is reset when the instance...
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Berkeley Unix distributions, including: curses and termcap: a hardware-independent library for controlling cursor movement, screen editing, and window creation...
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Console application (redirect from Command-line program)
Multiple libraries are available to assist with the development of Text User Interfaces. On Unix systems, such libraries are ncurses and curses. On Microsoft...
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scripts which displays text user interface widgets. It uses the curses or ncurses library. The latter provides users with the ability to use a mouse, e...
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differ on whether X/Open Curses, Issue 4, Version 2 was part of this SUS; its copyright date is given as 1996. X/Open Curses, Issue 4 was published in...
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Generic programming is a style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of data types to-be-specified-later that are then instantiated...
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Curse was a gaming company that managed the video game mod host CurseForge, wiki host Gamepedia, and the Curse Network of gaming community websites. The...
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