The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD curses. The msys-ncurses package provides the documentation and programs for the ncurses library. The associated msys-libncurses package provides the runtime library and related development files. The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD curses. The msys-libncurses package provides the runtime library and related development files for ncurses. The associated msys-ncurses package provides the documentation and programs related to the library. Terminfo is a data base describing terminals, used by screen-oriented programs such as nvi(1), rogue(1) and libraries such as curses(3x). Terminfo describes termi- nals by giving a set of capabilities which they have, by specifying how to perform screen operations, and by speci- fying padding requirements and initialization sequences.