ncurses-doc 5.9-8 (amd64 binary) in ubuntu quantal

 The ncurses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
 updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
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 This package contains an introduction to writing programs with
 ncurses a guide to the internals of the ncurses library. It also
 includes the libraries' man pages.
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 Non-developers likely have little use for this package.