Thomas E. Dickey
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Thomas E. Dickey is an American software developer best known for maintaining and enhancing the xterm terminal emulator and contributing extensively to Unix and open-source tools.
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| Thomas E. Dickey canonical | 2 |
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| instanceOf |
American
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person ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
X Window System ecosystem
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free and open-source software community ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
GNU diffutils
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GNU grep NERFINISHED ⓘ GNU sed NERFINISHED ⓘ GNU tar NERFINISHED ⓘ lynx ⓘ various autoconf-based build systems ⓘ |
| employer |
AT&T
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Bell Labs NERFINISHED ⓘ Digital Equipment Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ HP NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucent Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Unix software
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open-source software ⓘ software portability ⓘ terminal emulators ⓘ text-based user interfaces ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to Unix tools
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contributions to open-source software ⓘ curses library work ⓘ development of terminfo/termcap-related tools ⓘ ncurses maintenance ⓘ work on autoconf-related build tooling in various projects ⓘ xterm terminal emulator enhancement ⓘ xterm terminal emulator maintenance ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
cdk (Curses Development Kit) contributions
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ncurses NERFINISHED ⓘ patches to GNU diffutils ⓘ patches to GNU grep ⓘ patches to GNU sed ⓘ patches to GNU tar ⓘ work on lynx text web browser ⓘ xterm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | software developer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
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C++ ⓘ shell scripting ⓘ |
| softwareDevelopmentFocus |
bug fixing in legacy Unix tools
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portability fixes ⓘ terminal handling ⓘ text-mode interfaces ⓘ |
| softwareProjectMaintainerOf |
cdk (Curses Development Kit) in some periods
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ncurses NERFINISHED ⓘ xterm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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