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Ncurses

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 a way that attempts to optimize the commands that are sent to the terminal, to reduce the latency experienced when updating the displayed content.

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Developers
Thomas E. Dickey, Juergen Pfeifer, Eric S. Raymond, Alexander V Lukyanov, Philippe Blain, Sven Verdoolaege, Nicolas Boulenguez et al.
License
X11
Operating system
POSIX
Release
1993; 33 years ago (1993)
Repository
invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/
Stable release
6.6 / 31 December 2025; 7 months ago (31 December 2025)

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Ncurses

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Edges44
Triples56
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.044444
Components1

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Ncurses

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related to ncurses · 15
Ncurses → BSD, Dickey, Eric, However, Juergen Pfeifer, M1995, Most, November, Raymond, Since, Subsequent, System, The, Thomas, Zeyd Ben-Halim
related to License · 12
Ncurses → Free Software Foundation, FSF, GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public, GNU Project, GPL, Instead, LGPL, License, MIT License, This, When
related to history · 8
Ncurses → As, BSD, Release, SVr4, System, The XSI Curses, UNIX System, X/Open
related to Programs using ncurses · 8
Ncurses → GNU Midnight Commander, GNU Screen, Hundreds, Others, Setup Tool, Some, YaST, Yet
is a · 2
Ncurses → free and open-source software emulation of curses from System V Release 4.0, free and open-source software emulation of the System V Release 4.0
related to Terminal database · 2
Ncurses → Few, Other
Developers · 1
Ncurses → Thomas E. Dickey, Juergen Pfeifer, Eric S. Raymond, Alexander V Lukyanov, Philippe Blain, Sven Verdoolaege, Nicolas Boulenguez et al.
License · 1
Ncurses → X11
Operating system · 1
Ncurses → POSIX
Release · 1
Ncurses → 1993; 33 years ago (1993)

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curses library system release bsd termcap use free software programming programs license work terminal written version gnu new open-source eric

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NcursesDevelopersThomas E. Dickey, Juergen Pfeifer, Eric S. Raymond, Alexander V Lukyanov, Philippe Blain, Sven Verdoolaege, Nicolas Boulenguez et al.1.00infobox
NcursesLicenseX111.00infobox
NcursesOperating systemPOSIX1.00infobox
NcursesRelease1993; 33 years ago (1993)1.00infobox
NcursesRepositoryinvisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/1.00infobox
NcursesStable release6.6 / 31 December 2025; 7 months ago (31 December 2025)1.00infobox
NcursesTypeWidget toolkit1.00infobox
NcursesWebsiteinvisible-island.net/ncurses/1.00infobox
NcursesWritten inC1.00infobox
Ncursesis afree and open-source software emulation of curses from System V Release 4.00.90text
Ncursesis afree and open-source software emulation of the System V Release 4.00.90text
Ncursesrelated to historyAs0.60section

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