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<p><a href="page.php?w=ncurses">ncurses</a> is the approved replacement for <a href="page.php?w=4.4BSD">4.4BSD</a> classic curses.</p>

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<p>Using curses, programmers are able to write text-based applications without writing directly for any specific terminal type. The curses library on the executing system sends the correct control characters based on the terminal type. It provides an abstraction of one or more windows that maps onto the terminal screen. Each window is represented by a character matrix. The programmer sets up</p><p>
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