> 	please excuse my ignorance, I think I might be missing 
> something... but what is NCurses?  Thanks.


It lets programs that use curses do fancy displays such as bold and 
underlined text. 

For example, when NCurses is linked with Lynx, instead of the regular BSD 
curses, the links are bold instead of highlighted.  In general, programs 
linked with NCurses look a whole lot better than those linked with 
regular curses.


Jeff Thieleke