Re: What is curses

From: Mike Simons (msimons@fsimons01.erols.com)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 10:23:36 PDT


On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:48:39PM +0000, Brian Lavender wrote:
> I keep seeing curses. Is that a library that allows you to program for
> a Terminal window?

  Yes. A majority of the programs you run in a text window (like
the console or an xterm) that do anything fancy (like color, highlighting,
or scrolling backwards) are very prolly using curses.

  Install the "libncurses4-dev" package on your Debian box then cd into
/usr/doc/libncurses4-dev there are a bunch examples of what can be done
with curses.

    TTFN,
      Mike



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