Curses for 10.01

The HP proprietary curses library (-lcurses, -ltermcap, and -ltermlib) continue to be supported as the default on HP-UX 10.01. Future releases of HP-UX will feature a new X/OPEN compliant curses library and the HP proprietary curses library will eventually be deprecated and then replaced. HP-UX 10.01 does have a color curses library (-lcur_colr) which has some of the features of the future X/OPEN compliant library. HP recommends that only applications that need functionality provided by the color curses library, but not the HP proprietary library (for example, displaying colors to the screen), should port to the color curses library at this time.

Example: Linking to the HP proprietary library

cc foo.c -lcurses

Example: Linking to the color curses library

cc foo.c -I/usr/include/curses_colr -lcur_colr