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PDCurses – for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model

Published on: 2025-04-19 19:52:58

PDCurses Stable: v3.9 Current: See git repository PDCurses is a public domain curses library for DOS, OS/2, Windows console, X11 and SDL, implementing most of the functions available in X/Open and System V R4 curses, and supporting a variety of compilers for these platforms. The X11 and SDL ports let you recompile existing text-mode curses programs to produce GUI applications. PDCurses is distributed mainly as source code, but some pre-compiled libraries may be available. The latest version can be found at: https://pdcurses.org/ For changes, see the History file. The main documentation is now in the docs directory. Mailing lists There's a low-traffic mailing list for announcements and discussion. To subscribe, email the list server, with the first line of the body of the message containing: subscribe pdcurses-l or you can read the mailing list archive. Other links Legal Stuff The core package and most ports are in the public domain, but a few files in the demos and X11 di ... Read full article.