Thanks, Thomas and Aaron.   I think I've experienced what you are referring
to; whowatch doesn't work with libncurses substituted for libcurses.   Guess
I'll have to rip into a 1.6 base tarball, as Aaron Grier suggested, and
extract the needed files.

Thanks,

William


> From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
> Organization: RadixNet Internet Services
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:58:28 -0400 (EDT)
> To: wduke@cogeco.ca (iMac)
> Subject: Re: libcurses.so.5
> 
> In article <BF8718A7.6E0%wduke@cogeco.ca> you wrote:
> 
>> ln -s libncurses.so.5 libcurses.so.5
> 
>> I don't know how stable this is going to be, but it does appear to be
>> working.   Does anybody know if this is a bad idea?
> 
> Bad idea.  It's probably working since ncurses provides a termcap
> interface (and that's just a few function calls).  But programs that
> use curses wouldn't work, since they rely on structs which are different.
> 
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> Thomas E. Dickey
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