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Programming with curses

By John Strang
First Edition January 1986
Pages: 74
ISBN 10: 0-937175-02-1 | ISBN 13: 9780937175026
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curses is a UNIX library of functions for controlling a terminal's display screen from a C program. This handbook helps you make use of the curses library. Describes the original Berkeley version of curses.
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curses is a UNIX library of functions for controlling a terminal's display screen from a C program. It can be used to provide a screen driver for a program (such as a visual editor) or to improve a program's user interface. This handbook will help you make use of the curses library in your C programs. We have presented ample material on curses and its implementation in UNIX so that you understand the whole, as well as its parts. Note: This handbook covers Ken Arnold's original Berkeley implementation of curses, not the System V version. Topics covered include:

Windows, screens, and images.
Multiple windows.
The WINDOW structure.

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Programming with curses Review, August 20 2003

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Submitted by Shawn Boyette [Respond | View]

Not only is this book an amazingly slender volume, containing 25 fewer pages than the XML Pocket Reference, but it's two decades out of date, covering the original Berkeley curses, meaning no info on color or mouse support or any of the other interesting and useful functionalities provided by ncurses, which has been the de facto curses standard since about 1993 and already existed as pcurses at the time of this book's writing. There is also, of course, no help to be found for people wanting to use curses via the Perl interface, since Perl didn't exist (in a released form) yet. In short: you're better off staring at the man pages until osmosis kicks in.

Programming with curses Review, May 15 2002

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Submitted by ymqu [Respond | View]

this is very good book

Programming with curses Review, July 23 1998
Submitted by Peter Caffin [Respond | View]

I wrote up a reasonably lengthy review last year which is at
http://it.net.au/~pc/comp/linux/reviews/pw-curses.html
I like the new user reviews idea for this site, BTW :)

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