Library that manage an application's display on terminals
Description
The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in
System V Release 4.0 (SVr4), and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads
and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping,
and has all the other SVr4-curses enhancements over BSD curses. SVr4 curses
became the basis of X/Open Curses.
The distribution includes the library and support utilities, including:
captoinfo, a termcap conversion tool
clear, utility for clearing the screen
infocmp, the terminfo decompiler
tabs, set tabs on a terminal
tic, the terminfo compiler
toe, list (table of) terminfo entries
tput, utility for retrieving terminal capabilities in shell scripts
tset, to initialize the terminal
