Chris Jones said:

>I just did a clean install of 1.5.3, sort of testing it before the 
>release.  Apparently, everything that's linked against curses goes into 
>some kind of debugging mode, where it writes a file called __curses.out. 
>  This file appears to contain a log of the characters that curses wrote 
>to the screen.  Needless to say, this considerably slows down vi, 
>systat, etc.

That's pretty bizarre. I have an SS5 and an SS1 running 1.5.3 that I built
with sources from anoncvs. I don't see this behavior.
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