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  2. curses (programming library) - Wikipedia

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    curses (programming library) curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. The name is a pun on the term " cursor optimization". It is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals (e.g., VT100 ).

  3. Cursor Mundi - Wikipedia

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    The Cursor Mundi (or ‘ Over-runner of the World ’) is an early 14th-century religious poem written in Northumbrian Middle English that presents an extensive retelling of Christian history from the Creation to Doomsday. A number of manuscripts of the poem are extant, but none of them is the original composition attributed to an unknown ...

  4. ICO (file format) - Wikipedia

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    ICO (file format) The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately. In Windows, all executables that display an icon to the user, on the desktop, in the Start Menu, or in file Explorer ...

  5. ANSI escape code - Wikipedia

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    ANSI escape code. Output of the system-monitor htop, an ncurses-application (which uses SGR and other ANSI/ISO control sequences). ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. Certain sequences of bytes, most starting ...

  6. Cursor (user interface) - Wikipedia

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    Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. Cursor on a slide rule. On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of ...

  7. Cursor (databases) - Wikipedia

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    Cursor (databases) In computer science, a database cursor is a mechanism that enables traversal over the records in a database. Cursors facilitate subsequent processing in conjunction with the traversal, such as retrieval, addition and removal of database records. The database cursor characteristic of traversal makes cursors akin to the ...

  8. Dynamic-link library - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic link library. A dynamic-link library (DLL) is a shared library in the Microsoft Windows or OS/2 operating system . A DLL can contain executable code (functions), data, and resources, in any combination.

  9. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

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    A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a ...