Programmer's Guide to NCurses
Chapter One
The Setup
This chapter covers a basic setup and organization for you to get started with
NCurses programming. Here you'll find:
* An introduction to the terminal window in UNIX
* A smattering of basic shell commands
* Creating a special curses directory for this document's programs
* A review of available text editors
* The creation of a basic NCurses program
* A review of the gcc compiler and linking commands
* Re-editing source code and debugging exercises
The idea here is to show you how everything works and to get you comfortable
programming with NCurses, even if you've never written a UNIX
program before.
NCurses Is a UNIX Thing
You must have a UNIX-like operating system to work the samples and examples
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