Curses

Curses is the name of a software Bibliothèque of control of posting in the final of the systems Unix, making it possible to write applications whose user interface is in text mode. It is resulting from the distribution BSD of Unix, in which it was employed for the text editor VI and the play Rogue.

By using curses, the programmers can conceive applications based on the text mode, without taking account of the characteristics of each terminal. The library curses deals with sending the suitable control characters towards the monitor during the execution of the program.

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Related article

• Ncurses, successor of curses.

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