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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > does anyone still program curses
 
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Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010
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a mild curse - may you step on a staple at some point in the future, and be momentarily uncomfortable.  but it's not enough to break the skin much. just slightly irksome for a bit
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Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010

 have you considered ncurses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses

it's a lot like curses. except it is new and improved with better interfaces. it's what the freebsd installer uses even

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Broken Machine
Oct 22, 2010

 ncurses is fine, actually. last updated 2022. if you've used screen, you've enjoyed it yourself. it's still under mit license even

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