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[c2133bc] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[752f4e5] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-ncurses" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
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[6370fa6] | 9 |
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[673b0d8] | 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses"><primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary></indexterm>
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| 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[673b0d8] | 13 | <para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent
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[17476c5] | 14 | handling of character screens.</para>
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[5888299] | 15 |
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[a001133] | 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>27 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 20 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 21 |
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[a001133] | 22 | <segmentedlist>
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| 23 | <segtitle>Ncurses installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 24 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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[69993f4] | 25 | Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 26 | </segmentedlist>
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| 27 | </sect2>
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[3554fa3a] | 28 |
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[a001133] | 29 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 30 | <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
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| 31 |
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[21308e2] | 32 | <para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 33 |
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[f5ccac81] | 34 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib \
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[56964fb] | 35 | --with-shared --without-debug</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 44 |
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[56964fb] | 45 | <para>Move the Ncurses static libraries to the proper locations:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 46 |
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[56964fb] | 47 | <screen><userinput>mv /lib/lib{panel,menu,form,ncurses,ncurses++}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 48 |
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[56964fb] | 49 | <para>Create symlinks in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib:</filename></para>
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[73aedd1d] | 50 |
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[56964fb] | 51 | <screen><userinput>rm /lib/lib{ncurses,menu,panel,form}.so
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| 52 | ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
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| 53 | ln -sf ../../lib/libmenu.so.5 /usr/lib/libmenu.so
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| 54 | ln -sf ../../lib/libpanel.so.5 /usr/lib/libpanel.so
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| 55 | ln -sf ../../lib/libform.so.5 /usr/lib/libform.so</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 56 |
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[56964fb] | 57 | <para>Give the Ncurses libraries execute permissions:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 58 |
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[56964fb] | 59 | <screen><userinput>chmod 755 /lib/lib{panel,menu,form,ncurses}.so.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 60 |
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| 61 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 62 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 63 | <sect2 id="contents-ncurses" role="content"><title>Contents of Ncurses</title>
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[673b0d8] | 64 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 65 | <segmentedlist>
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| 66 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 67 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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| 68 | <seglistitem><seg>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic),
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[00e88af8] | 69 | reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput, and tset</seg>
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[c6cb3aa] | 70 | <seg>libcurses.[a,so] (link to libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so], libmenu.[a,so],
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[00e88af8] | 71 | libncurses++.a, libncurses.[a,so], and libpanel.[a,so]</seg></seglistitem>
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[c6cb3aa] | 72 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 73 |
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[2256873] | 74 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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[3ed279f] | 75 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[673b0d8] | 76 |
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[b8a819f] | 77 | <varlistentry id="captoinfo">
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| 78 | <term><command>captoinfo</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 79 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 80 | <para>Converts a termcap description into a terminfo description</para>
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[3ed279f] | 81 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses captoinfo"><primary sortas="b-captoinfo">captoinfo</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 82 | </listitem>
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| 83 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 84 |
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[b8a819f] | 85 | <varlistentry id="clear">
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| 86 | <term><command>clear</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 87 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 88 | <para>Clears the screen, if possible</para>
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[3ed279f] | 89 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses clear"><primary sortas="b-clear">clear</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 90 | </listitem>
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| 91 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 92 |
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[b8a819f] | 93 | <varlistentry id="infocmp">
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| 94 | <term><command>infocmp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 95 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 96 | <para>Compares or prints out terminfo descriptions</para>
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[3ed279f] | 97 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infocmp"><primary sortas="b-infocmp">infocmp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 100 |
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[b8a819f] | 101 | <varlistentry id="infotocap">
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| 102 | <term><command>infotocap</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 103 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 104 | <para>Converts a terminfo description into a termcap description</para>
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[3ed279f] | 105 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infotocap"><primary sortas="b-infotocap">infotocap</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 106 | </listitem>
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| 107 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 108 |
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[b8a819f] | 109 | <varlistentry id="reset">
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| 110 | <term><command>reset</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 111 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 112 | <para>Reinitializes a terminal to its default values</para>
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[3ed279f] | 113 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses reset"><primary sortas="b-reset">reset</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 114 | </listitem>
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| 115 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 116 |
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[b8a819f] | 117 | <varlistentry id="tack">
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| 118 | <term><command>tack</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 119 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 120 | <para>The terminfo action checker; it is mainly used to test the
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| 121 | accuracy of an entry in the terminfo database</para>
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[3ed279f] | 122 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tack"><primary sortas="b-tack">tack</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 123 | </listitem>
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| 124 | </varlistentry>
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[6370fa6] | 125 |
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[b8a819f] | 126 | <varlistentry id="tic">
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| 127 | <term><command>tic</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 128 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 129 | <para>The terminfo entry-description compiler that translates a
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[ef13657] | 130 | terminfo file from source format into the binary format needed for the
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| 131 | ncurses library routines. A terminfo file contains information on the
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[2256873] | 132 | capabilities of a certain terminal</para>
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[3ed279f] | 133 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tic"><primary sortas="b-tic">tic</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 134 | </listitem>
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| 135 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 136 |
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[b8a819f] | 137 | <varlistentry id="toe">
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| 138 | <term><command>toe</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 139 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 140 | <para>Lists all available terminal types, giving the primary name and
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| 141 | description for each</para>
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[3ed279f] | 142 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses toe"><primary sortas="b-toe">toe</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 143 | </listitem>
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| 144 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 145 |
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[b8a819f] | 146 | <varlistentry id="tput">
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| 147 | <term><command>tput</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 148 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 149 | <para>Makes the values of terminal-dependent capabilities available to
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| 150 | the shell; it can also be used to reset or initialize a terminal or
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| 151 | report its long name</para>
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[3ed279f] | 152 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tput"><primary sortas="b-tput">tput</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 153 | </listitem>
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| 154 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 155 |
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[b8a819f] | 156 | <varlistentry id="tset">
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| 157 | <term><command>tset</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 158 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 159 | <para>Can be used to initialize terminals</para>
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[3ed279f] | 160 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tset"><primary sortas="b-tset">tset</primary></indexterm>
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[0e9a9e2] | 161 | <beginpage/></listitem>
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[c6cb3aa] | 162 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 163 |
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[2256873] | 164 | <varlistentry id="libcurses">
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| 165 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcurses</filename></term>
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| 166 | <listitem>
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| 167 | <para>A link to <filename>libncurses</filename></para>
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| 168 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libcurses"><primary sortas="c-libcurses">libcurses</primary></indexterm>
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| 169 | </listitem>
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| 170 | </varlistentry>
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| 171 |
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[b8a819f] | 172 | <varlistentry id="libncurses">
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[2256873] | 173 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libncurses</filename></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 174 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 175 | <para>Contains functions to display text in many complex ways on a
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| 176 | terminal screen; a good example of the use of these functions is the
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| 177 | menu displayed during the kernel's <command>make menuconfig</command></para>
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| 178 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libncurses"><primary sortas="c-libncurses">libncurses</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 179 | </listitem>
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| 180 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 181 |
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[b8a819f] | 182 | <varlistentry id="libform">
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[2256873] | 183 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libform</filename></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 184 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 185 | <para>Contains functions to implement forms</para>
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| 186 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libform"><primary sortas="c-libform">libform</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 187 | </listitem>
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| 188 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 189 |
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[b8a819f] | 190 | <varlistentry id="libmenu">
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[2256873] | 191 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmenu</filename></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 192 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 193 | <para>Contains functions to implement menus</para>
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| 194 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libmenu"><primary sortas="c-libmenu">libmenu</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 195 | </listitem>
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| 196 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 197 |
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[b8a819f] | 198 | <varlistentry id="libpanel">
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[2256873] | 199 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpanel</filename></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 200 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 201 | <para>Contains functions to implement panels</para>
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| 202 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libpanel"><primary sortas="c-libpanel">libpanel</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 203 | </listitem>
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| 204 | </varlistentry>
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| 205 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 206 |
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| 207 | </sect2>
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| 208 |
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| 209 | </sect1>
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[ef13657] | 210 |
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