In article <199807101318.JAAAA25077@hrothgar.gw.com> rnestor@metronet.com (Bob Nestor) writes:
>I'm trying to get a program to build from the FreeBSD ports collection 
>which doesn't currently exist in the NetBSD packages.  It's coming up 
>with unresolved references to some library routines:  tparm, tigetstr, 
>tigetnum, start_color, and setupterm.  I'm running a kernel and userland 
>pretty close to current and have installed most of what's currently 
>available in the NetBSD pacakages system, but a search of all the 
>libraries turns up nothing.
>
>Does anyone recognize these routines?  Any suggestions for how the calls 
>to these can be changed to something equivalent for use on NetBSD?
>
>thanks,

You need ncurses for this.

christos