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=== pcurses and PDCurses === {{main article|PDCurses}} Different lines of development started by imitating the AT&T curses, from at least three implementations: '''pcurses''' by [[Pavel Curtis]] (started in 1982), '''PDCurses''' (Public Domain curses) by Mark Hessling to support his editor [[The Hessling Editor|THE]] (started in 1987) as well as [[Rexx]]/Curses,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rexxcurses.sourceforge.net/index.html|title=Rexx/Curses|author=Mark Hessling|year=2008|publisher=[[SourceForge]] project rexxcurses|access-date=2014-02-10}}</ref> and '''PC curses''' (version 1.4 and earlier by Björn Larsson-based inspired by Pavel Curtis' library before 1990).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://purl.net/xyzzy/dos/pccurses.zip|title=CURSES.NEW in pccurses.zip|author=F. Ellermann|date=1993-07-26|quote=based on PC curses (version 1.4) written by Björn Larsson|access-date=2014-02-10}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://read.pudn.com/downloads88/sourcecode/windows/339526/PCCUR/README.NOW__.htm|title=README.NOW in pccurs14.zip|quote=PCcurses is a port/rewrite of Pavel Curtis' <nowiki>[package]</nowiki>|author=Björn Larsson|date=1990-01-14|access-date=2014-02-10|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223040754/http://read.pudn.com/downloads88/sourcecode/windows/339526/PCCUR/README.NOW__.htm|archive-date=2014-02-23}}</ref>{{discuss|PC Curses}}
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