"PRX" <pperko@adrenalina.pl> wrote in message
news:bqf102$bc8$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl...
> > How did you "install" ncurses? Obviously not correctly.
>
> i've upgradepkg ncurses from slack 8.0 eith new package ncurses from
slack
> 9.1 ...

isn't the one in 9.1 compiled with a newer (and backwards incompatible) gcc
+ glibc ?

that might explain why it doesn't work