WIth help from Jason and Norman I finally figured out that my curses installation was broken. Uninstalling and reinstalling using setup.exe fixed me up. Thanks for the help gb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/