Kirk, Thanks for the tips. I'll do some more investigating this weekend. I'll also take a look at the configure script to see why it can't find the initscr function. Do you know how to get a listing of all the symbols included in a library? I'm als0o a bit confused on the differences between the compile-time vs run-time libraries. Thanks again. 73, Chris w1gm at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org