My original question concerned porting a curses program from an SGI machine. "...remember that SGI's unix is sysV..." thus the obvious place to look is /usr/5bin/cc /usr/5include /usr/5lib using these rather than the defaults solves all my problems... Thanks to: jaysun@uunet.UUCP (Jay Williamson - System Manager) brendan@uunet.UUCP (Brendan Kehoe) kevin@sun.com (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child}) John Valdes miker@oconnor.UUCP (Mike Raffety) matt@wbst845e.xerox.com (Matt Goheen) "Clinton L. Combs" mmikulska@ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska) tilman@indetech.com (Tilman Sporkert x2049) Claus Assmann Trent MacDougall joey@tessi.UUCP (Joe Pruett) dmorse@sun-valley.stanford.edu bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) jfy@cis.ksu.edu (Joseph F. Young) john (John Kowalski) math.ksu.edu!rjq@uunet.UUCP (Robert Quinn) vest.sdata.no!birger@uunet.UUCP ( Birger Wathne) dennis (Dennis Ip) john@lid.mitre.org (John Marsh) Martin Earl adb@cs.bu.edu (Adam Bryant) and any others I forgot... -- Anthony =================================================================== Anthony Hunter, Systems Consultant, The Braegen Group Inc. 66 Slater Street, Suite 2104, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H1 (613) 235-9364 Fax (613) 235-3193 Email: uunet!attcan!moore!bragrt!oanthony ===================================================================