Editing Ncurses (section)

===ncurses===
The pcurses library was further improved when Zeyd Ben-Halim took over the development effort in late 1991.<ref name="ncurses Raymond"/><ref name="ncurses Dickey"/><ref>The [[README]] file in ncurses 1.8.1 states "v0.1 July 31, 1992" and "v1.8.1 November 5, 1993", which agrees with the [http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.gz NEWS (changelog) file]</ref> The new library was released as ncurses in November 1993, with version 1.8.1 as the first major release. Subsequent work, through version 1.8.8 (M1995), was driven by [[Eric S. Raymond]], who added the form and menu libraries written by Juergen Pfeifer.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#who_did_it |title=NCURSES - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Who wrote NCURSES?}}</ref> Since 1996, it has been maintained by Thomas E. Dickey.<ref name="ncurses Dickey"/>

Most ncurses calls can be easily ported to the old curses. System V curses implementations can support BSD curses programs with just a [[Compiler|recompilation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/hackguide.html#abstract |title=A Hacker's Guide to Ncurses Internals}}</ref> However, a few areas are problematic, such as handling terminal resizing, since no counterpart exists in the old curses.