ncurses
The ncurses (new curses) library is a freeware emulation of System V Release 4.0 curses. 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 distribution includes the library and support utilities, including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo. Full manual pages are provided for the library and tools.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Implementation | Ada C C++ |
Recent releases
- 03 Nov 2008 02:46
Changes: Two new library configurations (a library supporting tic and related programs, and a completely new configuration providing some support for threaded applications). Many bugfixes and portability improvements.
- 23 Dec 2006 12:32
Changes: Hashed-databases are supported for storing terminal descriptions. Support for magic-cookies such as hpterm was improved. Support for rpath in shared libraries was revised. Many bugfixes were made for memory leaks, wide-character support, portability, and more.
- 12 Oct 2005 15:58
Changes: The forms and menus libraries work with multi-byte characters. Experimental support for 256 color display and 5-button mice have been added. Many improvements have been made to locale support and portability, as well as bugfixes in different areas.
- 15 Feb 2004 07:36
Changes: This release improves wide-character support and adds screen optimization, mouse drivers, portability to various platforms (including cross-compiling), and many bugfixes.
- 17 Oct 2002 17:34
Changes: This release implements most of the X/Open Curses wide- and multibyte-character support. Improvements include the ability to compile terminfo database for HPUX/AIX/Tru64 formats, new color features, and better checks by tic to support termcap conversion.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: Wording of 5.4 release notes
> I submitted "Improves support
> for", and it was changed to
> "adds".
I've fixed it.
Thanks,
Jeff
Wording of 5.4 release notes
I submitted "Improves support for", and it was changed to "adds". Not quite the same thing.
Compiling with gcc 3
FYI: To compile with gcc 3, check out patches at ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/5.2 (ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/5.2).
Re: RedHat 6.2
RedHat distributed development versions of ncurses past 4.2 as ncurses 4.2 without noting that interfaces and data structures had changed.
On release of ncurses 5.0, they decided to ignore the change in ABI since they thought (a mistake) that their development versions were the same as 5.0.
Actually, about a month before Redhat 6.2 was released, I discussed this issue with them, so they "should" know.
> Ok, could someone explain to me why the
> heck RedHat 6.2 has a package called
> ncurses-5.0 that install only
> libncurses.so.4? Isn't that confusing?
> libncurses.so.5 must exist somewhere,
> since some programs require it!!
RedHat 6.2
Ok, could someone explain to me why the heck RedHat 6.2 has a package called ncurses-5.0 that install only libncurses.so.4? Isn't that confusing? libncurses.so.5 must exist somewhere, since some programs require it!!