Global InformationPDCurses information
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| Original author(s) | Mark Hessling, William McBrine |
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| Initial release | November 26, 2001 |
| Stable release | 3.9
/ September 4, 2019 |
| Preview release | r217980
/ November 12, 2015 |
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| Operating system | DOS, OS/2, Win32, X11, SDL 1/2 |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | C library, User interface |
| License | MIT license, Public domain |
| Website | pdcurses |
PDCurses is a public domain software programming library for DOS, OS/2, Windows, X11 and SDL2. It is a continuation of the original curses system - while development of curses ended in the mid-1990s, work on ncurses and PDCurses continued. PDCurses implements most of the functions available in the original X/Open and UNIX System V R4 curses. Development started in 1987 to support The Hessling Editor. It supports many compilers for these platforms. The X11 port lets one recompile existing text-mode curses programs to produce native X11 applications.