About:
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.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

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.

Author:
T.E.Dickey [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.36/10.00 (8 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.7.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.gz
RPM package:
http://rpm.pbone.net/[..]dex.php3?stat=3&search=ncurses&srodzaj=3
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/[..]case=insensitive&version=all&release=all
OS X package:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/ncurses
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=ncurses&stype=name
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		Freely Distributable, OSI Approved :: MIT/X Consortium License
[Programming Language]		Ada, C, C++
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	5.7	03-Nov-2008	MIT/X Consortium License
Development			MIT/X Consortium License
Prerelease	5.2-20020907	07-Sep-2002	MIT/X Consortium License

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
5.7	Major feature enhancements	03-Nov-2008 02:46
5.6	Major feature enhancements	23-Dec-2006 20:32
5.5	Major feature enhancements	12-Oct-2005 22:58
5.4	Major feature enhancements	14-Feb-2004 18:37
5.3	Major feature enhancements	17-Oct-2002 21:34
5.2	N/A	27-Oct-2000 05:35
5.1	N/A	13-Jul-2000 07:12
5.0	N/A	30-Oct-1999 11:37
5.0beta1	N/A	04-Apr-1999 14:10
4.2-990213	N/A	19-Feb-1999 18:50

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: Updated ncurses4 compat packages are available
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Fri, Feb 22nd 2002 02:43
  
• Debian: New ncurses packages available
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Tue, Feb 19th 2002 05:45
  

 Comments

[»] Wording of 5.4 release notes
by T.E.Dickey - Feb 14th 2004 11:30:14

I submitted "Improves support for", and it was changed to "adds". Not quite the same thing.

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[»] Re: Wording of 5.4 release notes
by jeff covey - Feb 15th 2004 07:36:54


> I submitted "Improves support
> for", and it was changed to
> "adds".

I've fixed it.

Thanks,
Jeff

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[»] Compiling with gcc 3
by Tushar Teredesai - Feb 8th 2002 18:54:00

FYI: To compile with gcc 3, check out patches at ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/5.2.

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[»] RedHat 6.2
by Ricky Ng-Adam - Apr 25th 2000 12:27:59

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!!

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[»] Re: RedHat 6.2
by T.E.Dickey - Sep 9th 2001 13:33:33

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!!


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