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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
<p class="para">
ncurses (new curses) is a free software emulation of curses in
System V Rel 4.0 (and above). It uses terminfo format, supports pads,
colors, multiple highlights, form characters and function key mapping.
Because of the interactive nature of this library, it will be of little
use for writing Web applications, but may be useful when writing scripts meant
<a href="features.commandline.html" class="link">using PHP from the command line</a>.
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The features available, such as colors, depend on the terminal that
you are using. Use functions such as <span class="function"><a href="function.ncurses-has-colors.html" class="function">ncurses_has_colors()</a></span>,
<span class="function"><a href="function.ncurses-can-change-color.html" class="function">ncurses_can_change_color()</a></span>, and
<span class="function"><a href="function.ncurses-has-ic.html" class="function">ncurses_has_ic()</a></span> to check for individual capabilities.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This extension has been moved to the
<a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with
PHP as of PHP 5.3.0.
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ncurses is available for the following platforms:
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<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">AIX</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">BeOS</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">BSD variants (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD)</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">Cygwin</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">Digital Unix (aka OSF1)</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">GNU/Linux</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">HPUX</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">IRIX64</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">Mac OS X</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">OS/2</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">QNX</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">SCO OpenServer</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">Solaris</span></li>
<li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">Tru64</span></li>
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