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
in this book.
Beyond this, note that you must also have the programming libraries
installed for your operating system. Without those libraries, programming in
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