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Introducing Curses/iX Library by Rachel Schwab Commercial Systems Division The Curses/iX library (p/n B2477A), a collection of cursor and keyboard control functions, is part of the Fundamental Operating System (FOS) with MPE/iX Release 4.5. The documentation for this library is included as part of the POSIX Developer's Kit (p/n 36430A). Curses is a defacto standard available on many different systems. Curses/iX routines can be used to draw screens and collect user input from the keyboard. Curses/iX accesses the TERMINFO facility for tailoring terminal interactions to a particular terminal type. The TIC and UNTIC utilities, also included in FOS on MPE/iX Release 4.5, may be used to compile and decompile the TERMINFO files. Programs that call Curses/iX functions must run under the POSIX.2 shell because no mechanism currently exists for exporting the TERM environment variable other than the shell. Please read file /usr/lib/curses/product-readme for additional information about Curses/iX.