Kirk, Thanks for the help. I got the utils to build by adding -lncurses to the make file in the alsamixer subdirectory. 73, Chris w1gm at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On 21 Apr 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Chris: The program ldd allows you to see all the shared libraries > a program/objec uses. The program nm shows you all of the symbols > within a program/object. I know that there is a manpage covering > initscr and a number of other functions commonly used in ncurses. > Manpages are always packaged with there respective program/libraries > so if there is no manpage for initscr then the library you want is not > installed. > > Compile time libraries get staticly linked into an object, runtime are > usually shared libraries which get called by the program while it is > running. > > Good Luck. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >