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[[User_interface|User_interface]]
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Ncurses is a programming library providing an [[API|API]], allowing the programmer to write text-based user interfaces, [[TUI|TUI]]s, in a terminal-independent manner. It also optimizes screen changes, in order to reduce the [[latency|latency]] experienced when using remote Unix shell.
Ncurses stands for "new curses", and is a replacement for the discontinued 4.[[4BSD|4BSD]] classic [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/curses|http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/curses]].
Ncurses is a part of the [[GNU|GNU]] project. It is one of the few GNU files not distributed under the GNU General Public License or GNU Lesser General Public License; it is distributed under a license like the X11 License, which is sometimes referred to as the MIT License.
See also: [[UbuntuLinux|UbuntuLinux]] , with Ncurses installation and [[black screen|black screen]].
## External links
* [[Ncurses homepage|http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html]]
* [[wiki:Self:HOWTO ncurses Programming|http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/]]
* [[Wikipedia article about Ncurses|http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ncurses]].
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