Guidance on writing a top-like console

[Hyuga]

On Feb 27, 6:08 pm, ntwrkd <ntw... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am interested in writing an application that functions like a Unix
> or Linux top in the way it displays data.
> It should be command-line based but dynamically refreshing.
>
> I'm not sure what I should take into account or how I might go about
> implementing this?
> Any suggestions are appreciated.

<OT>
Do by any chance play TF2?  I've seen someone with the username
'ntwrkd' before.  Not that it's necessarily an uncommon username, but
it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post.
</OT>