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So I can use it over SSH... which I do often. It's not like curses apps are that hard to make, especially with Python.

I read the UHH many years ago, and learned a lot of useful information from it. It's a wee bit dated, but still a fun read.

It's amazing how so much of it is still so so relevant today!

(The book was published in 1994.)

That's not amazing, that's just sad.

"Curses" actually refers to "curses". "ncurses" is new curses. From Wikipedia:

“[…] ncurses is a free software emulation (clone) of the System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses, which was itself an enhancement over the discontinued classic 4.4 BSD curses.”