Ncurses

Ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. It also optimizes screen changes, in order to reduce the latency experienced when using remote shells.

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Ncurses stands for "new curses", and is a replacement for the discontinued 4.4BSD classic curses.

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The project lead is Thomas Dickey.

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Ncurses is a part of the GNU project. It is one of the few GNU files not distributed under the GNU GPL or LGPL; it is distributed under a license similar to the MIT License.

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Text user interface: TUI (Text User Interface) is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text based user interfaces. TUIs are different from command-line interfaces in that, like GUIs, they utilise the entire screen area and do not necessarily provi...