Re: NCurses 4.1

[Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>]

>HI, A stupid question probably, but anyone can explain what NCURSES is
>for?
>Why woudl I need them?
>Thanks :)

Not a stupid question at all.  (Few questions are.)

Ncurses is a library of terminal-handling routines, similar to the
System V UNIX Curses library.  It transforms high-level requests from
an application program into low-level escape codes for the terminal,
and does cursor-movement optimisation (and probably other things I
don't know about).

You need it if you want to write a UNIX-style text-mode program which
should be able to handle a diversity of terminals, or if you want to
compile an existing program that uses Termcap, Terminfo or Curses.

--Charles Briscoe-Smith
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