Hi Chris: A couple of things come to mind. Did you run ldconfig after installing the ncurses libraries? There are a number of different ncurses packages available, one thing you could do is try typing man initscr to see if you get a manpage for it. If so, then it's a path problem of some sort. If not, then you don't have the correct libncurses installed. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061