# NCURSES Programming HOWTO

### Pradeep Padala

p_padala@yahoo.com

v1.7.1, 2002-06-25

Revision History
Revision 1.7.1 | 2002-06-25 | Revised by: ppadala
Added a README file for building and instructions for building from source.
Revision 1.7 | 2002-06-25 | Revised by: ppadala
Added "Other formats" section and made lot of fancy changes to the programs. Inlining of programs is gone.
Revision 1.6.1 | 2002-02-24 | Revised by: ppadala
Removed the old Changelog section, cleaned the makefiles
Revision 1.6 | 2002-02-16 | Revised by: ppadala
Corrected lot of spelling mistakes, added ACS variables section
Revision 1.5 | 2002-01-05 | Revised by: ppadala
Changed structure to present proper TOC
Revision 1.3.1 | 2001-07-26 | Revised by: ppadala
Corrected maintainers paragraph, Corrected stable release number
Revision 1.3 | 2001-07-24 | Revised by: ppadala
Added copyright notice(LDP license) to main document, Put copyright notice (GPL) for programs as well, Corrected printw_example.
Revision 1.2 | 2001-06-05 | Revised by: ppadala
Incorporated ravi's changes. Mainly to introduction, menu, form, justforfun sections
Revision 1.1 | 2001-05-22 | Revised by: ppadala
Added "a word about window" section, Added scanw_example.

This document is intended to be an "All in One" guide for programming with ncurses and its sister libraries. We graduate from a simple "Hello World" program to more complex form manipulation. No prior experience in ncurses is assumed. Latest version of the document can always be found at my web site. Send comments to this address

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