1/* 2 * Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey 3 * Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 4 * 5 * SPDX-License-Identifier: X11 6 * 7 * See contrib/ncurses/COPYING for the full license text. 8 */ 9 10comment = "ncurses terminal control library" 11desc = <<EOD 12The ncurses package is a subroutine library for terminal-independent 13screen-painting and input-event handling which presents a high level screen 14model to the programmer. ncurses implements the System V Release 4.0 (SVR4) 15curses interface, and is also backward compatible with traditional BSD curses. 16 17This package ships with a limited termcap database, but it is designed to use 18a terminfo database provided by ports, such as in misc/terminfo-db. 19EOD 20