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Other Projects => Curses => Topic started by: NeuroFuzzy on April 21, 2011, 03:13:01 am

Title: What does "curses" mean?
Post by: NeuroFuzzy on April 21, 2011, 03:13:01 am

I just joined the forums today... but... the title of this forum caught my eye.
I have a wireless network manager called "wicd", and the command line version of this program is called "wicd-curses". I've also dealt with a python package, "curses.ascii", and NOW there's a subforum about ASCII based games called "curses"?!

WTH is going on? What does curses mean in relation to text?

("curses my eyes are bleeding"?) :P

Title: Re: What does "curses" mean?
Post by: Tarran on April 21, 2011, 03:23:57 am

I believe this may explain things. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_%28programming_library%29)

Title: Re: What does "curses" mean?
Post by: NeuroFuzzy on April 21, 2011, 03:38:42 am

Ahh... I don't know how I missed a wikipedia article on it.

...probably 'cuz I used "ascii" as a keyword in all the searches...