Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > ncurses

\"NCURSES is a clone of the original System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses.It is a freely distributable library, fully compatible with olderversion of curses. In short, it is a library of functions that managesan application's display on character-cell terminals. NCURSES not onlycreates a wrapper over terminal capabilities, but also gives a robustframework to create nice looking UI (User Interface)s in text mode. Itprovides functions to create windows etc\"