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http://www.webuzo.com/sysapps/libraries/ncurses
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http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
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5.9
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4.1.9
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<center><font size="5" color="#182e7a">Nurses :</font></center><br />
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<th>Desc</th>
<th>Path</th>
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<td>Binary</td>
<td>/usr/local/apps/bin</td>
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<td>Library</td>
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<td>libncurses.so</td>
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<font size="5" color="#182e7a">Ncurses</font> (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses Terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD Curses.
The ncurses code was developed under GNU/Linux. It has been in use for some time with OpenBSD as the system curses library, and on FreeBSD and NetBSD as an external package. It should port easily to any ANSI/POSIX-conforming UNIX. It has even been ported to OS/2 Warp!
<br /><br />
Ncurses is distributed under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL" target="_blank">GNU General Public License</a>
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<english-features>
<h1>Features of Ncurses</h1>The Ncurses package is fully
compatible with SVr4 (System V Release 4) curses:
<ul>
<li>All 257 of the SVr4 calls have been implemented (and are
documented).</li>
<li>Full support for SVr4 curses features including keyboard
mapping, color, forms-drawing with ACS characters, and
automatic recognition of keypad and function keys.</li>
<li>An emulation of the SVr4 panels library, supporting a stack
of windows with backing store, is included.</li>
<li>An emulation of the SVr4 menus library, supporting a
uniform but flexible interface for menu programming, is
included.</li>
<li>An emulation of the SVr4 form library, supporting data
collection through on-screen forms, is included.</li>
<li>Binary terminfo entries generated by the Ncurses tic
implementation are bit-for-bit-compatible with the entry format
SVr4 curses uses.</li>
<li>The utilities have options to allow you to filter terminfo
entries for use with less capable
<strong>Curses</strong>/<strong>Terminfo</strong> versions such
as the HP/UX and AIX ports.</li>
</ul>The Ncurses package also has many useful extensions over
SVr4:
<ul>
<li>The API is 8-bit clean and base-level conformant with the
X/OPEN curses specification, XSI curses (that is, it implements
all BASE level features, and most EXTENDED features). It
includes many function calls not supported under SVr4 curses
(but portability of all calls is documented so you can use the
SVr4 subset only).</li>
<li>Unlike SVr3 curses, Ncurses can write to the
rightmost-bottommost corner of the screen if your terminal has
an insert-character capability.</li>
<li>Ada95 and C++ bindings.</li>
<li>Support for mouse event reporting with X Window xterm and
FreeBSD and OS/2 console windows.</li>
<li>Extended mouse support via Alessandro Rubini's gpm
package.</li>
<li>The function <code>wresize</code> allows you to resize
windows, preserving their data.</li>
<li>The function <code>use_default_colors</code> allows you to
use the terminal's default colors for the default color pair,
achieving the effect of transparent colors.</li>
<li>The functions <code>keyok</code> and
<code>define_key</code> allow you to better control the use of
function keys, e.g., disabling the Ncurses KEY_MOUSE, or by
defining more than one control sequence to map to a given key
code.</li>
<li>Support for 256-color terminals, such as modern xterm, when
configured using the <code>--enable-ext-colors</code>
option.</li>
<li>Support for 16-color terminals, such as <em>aixterm</em>
and <em>modern xterm</em>.</li>
<li>Better cursor-movement optimization. The package now
features a cursor-local-movement computation more efficient
than either BSD's or System V's.</li>
<li>Super hardware scrolling support. The screen-update code
incorporates a novel, simple, and cheap algorithm that enables
it to make optimal use of hardware scrolling, line-insertion,
and line-deletion for screen-line movements. This algorithm is
more powerful than the 4.4BSD Curses <code>quickch</code>
routine.</li>
<li>Real support for terminals with the magic-cookie glitch.
The screen-update code will refrain from drawing a highlight if
the magic- cookie unattributed spaces required just before the
beginning and after the end would step on a non-space
character. It will automatically shift highlight boundaries
when doing so would make it possible to draw the highlight
without changing the visual appearance of the screen.</li>
<li>It is possible to generate the library with a list of
pre-loaded fallback entries linked to it so that it can serve
those terminal types even when no terminfo tree or termcap file
is accessible (this may be useful for support of
screen-oriented programs that must run in single-user
mode).</li>
<li>The tic/captoinfo utility provided with Ncurses has the
ability to translate many termcaps from the XENIX, IBM and
AT&T extension sets.</li>
<li>A BSD-like tset utility is provided.</li>
<li>The Ncurses library and utilities will automatically read
terminfo entries from $HOME/.terminfo if it exists, and compile
to that directory if it exists and the user has no write access
to the system directory. This feature makes it easier for users
to have personal terminfo entries without giving up access to
the system terminfo directory.</li>
<li>You may specify a path of directories to search for
compiled descriptions with the environment variable
TERMINFO_DIRS (this generalizes the feature provided by
TERMINFO under stock System V.)</li>
<li>In terminfo source files, use capabilities may refer not
just to other entries in the same source file (as in System V)
but also to compiled entries in either the system terminfo
directory or the user's $HOME/.terminfo directory.</li>
<li>A script (<strong>capconvert</strong>) is provided to help
BSD users transition from termcap to terminfo. It gathers the
information in a TERMCAP environment variable and/or a
~/.termcap local entries file and converts it to an equivalent
local terminfo tree under $HOME/.terminfo.</li>
<li>Automatic fallback to the /etc/termcap file can be compiled
in when it is not possible to build a terminfo tree. This
feature is neither fast nor cheap, you don't want to use it
unless you have to, but it's there.</li>
<li>The table-of-entries utility <strong>toe</strong> makes it
easy for users to see exactly what terminal types are available
on the system.</li>
<li>The library meets the XSI requirement that every macro
entry point have a corresponding function which may be linked
(and will be prototype-checked) if the macro definition is
disabled with <code>#undef</code>.</li>
<li>An HTML "Introduction to Programming with NCURSES" document
provides a narrative introduction to the curses programming
interface.</li>
</ul>
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