Thank you, Yaakov -- this definitely fixed my problem, and ldd shows that it requests ncurses, as desired for the future. Best wishes -- Eliot -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/