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.Dd August 29, 2019
.Dt CURSES_VERSION 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm curses_version
.Nd Curses version information
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libcurses
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In curses.h
.Ft const char *
.Fn curses_version "void"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn curses_version
function returns a read-only string representing the version of the
.Nx
curses library.
This has no relation to the
.Nx
release it might have been taken from.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr curses 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn curses_version
function is a
.Em ncurses
extension to the Curses library and was added in
.Nx 10.0 .