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

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

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.

External links

• Ncurses homepage
• ncurses Programming HOWTO
• Introduction "Writing Programs with NCURSES" by Eric S. Raymond and Zeyd M. Ben-Halim
• Frequently asked questions and their corresponding answers by Thomas Dickey
• A Hacker's Guide to NCURSES
• Development Kit for C++
• Ruby module
• Binding for Python
• Ada95 Binding
• Terminal Screen Control Functions for PHP