My problem was that I didn't read what I cut and pasted too carefully.

This was fixed in misc/18539

Ben

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:48:19PM -0700, collver1@attbi.com wrote:
> I am trying to use menuc in NetBSD/i386 1.6, and am starting with the
> example in menuc(1) also at http://netbsd.math.orst.edu/misc/example.mc
> 
> $ menuc -o example example.mc
> $ gcc -o example example.c -lcurses
> example.c: In function `opt_act_0_0':
> example.c:41: parse error before `Option'
> example.c:53: stray '\' in program
> example.c: At top level:
> example.c:126: `menu_def' undeclared here (not in a function)
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?