"Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu> writes: : : No... isn't ncurses another add-on package, not provided by sun? Yep. http://www.ncurses.org. BTW, did you try the curses in /usr/ccs/lib? This is the classic SysV curses provided by Sun. It's part of the SUNWarc package on the install CD. William