Curses of dynamic libraries. Curses is hard to look statically, it I haven't tried. At least curses5 is still available. Thanks for the report Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13