My understanding is that curses is no longer supported or maintained and that ncurses is basically the replacement for it. -- Michael Hamblin http://www.utdallas.edu/~michaelh/ michaelh@utdallas.edu http://www.ductape.net/ UTD Linux User Group Engineering and Computer Science Support, x2997 "And when they try to take your eyes off of me-Remember me..." -Stavesacre