I'm sorry I took up so many peoples time on this, the problems was in   
some sloppy code (the error_message function) the author's inconsistent   
use of this function.

sorry and thanks for all the attempt to help me.
jam

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From:  Guenther Grau[SMTP:s_grau@ira.uka.de]
Sent:  Thursday, December 14, 1995 9:23 PM
To:  John Maier
Subject:  Re: compiling TIN 1.1 patch10 why wont curses compile!!!

Hi,

> Okay, so what's the trick to getting TIN to compile?

Please supply the ouput from more information.

What hardware are you using?
What version of NetBSD are you running?
Which compilere are you using?
How did you configure TIN?
What does the output of the compiler look like?

Please mail the answers to netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG if
you want someone to help you.

  Guenther