Introduction

The Purpose of This Manual

Writing Programs With NCURSES provides an introduction to programming with curses. It is not an exhaustive reference for the curses Application Programming Interface (API); that role is filled by the curses manual pages. Rather, it is intended to help C programmers ease into using the package.

Note: This document is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation and is provided "as is" for your convenience.

Audience

This document is intended for C applications programmers not yet specifically familiar with curses.

Release Information

Printing Date: May 2006

Manual Organization

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