It was my fault--I read the ncurses man page which instructs me to include
<curses.h> -- which apparently is for the OLD curses package. I had to
-I/usr/pkg/include and include <ncurses.h> , which cleared things up
perfectly. :) Everything works well now, thanks for the responses. Dang
man pages..! :)

Marc Tooley
tooleym@douglas.bc.ca (thank god soon I can retire this one)
P.S. The behaviour of using the old curses.h included a HUGE value being
stuffed into y, and a zero value being stuffed into x. Probably a
relocation or redefined set of globals, but since it works for me now,
I'll just remember what had to be done and chalk it up to a minor
annoyance. :) Very minor. Almost not worth mentioning. Which is why I'm
writing this note, eh?

> > How the heck am I supposed to use getyx()?
> > 
> > I've tried:
> > 
> > getyx(mywin, county, countx);
> 
> AFAIK, that's how you are supposed to use it.  You pass it a WINDOW * and
> two int's.  The window is a handle you've got from newwin() and the y and
> x position are placed into the two int's.
> 
> What happens when you do this?
> 
> J
> 
> PS.  I've only done this using BSD curses but I don't see why it should 
> be different using ncurses.