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On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:47:41PM -0700, Colin Diesh wrote:
>I was trying to use some ncurses utilities in cygwin like ctris and
>ninvaders but running these gives me the error
>
>"Error opening terminal: cygwin"
>
>I have ncurses installed, and the ncurses-demo's work as far as I can
>tell -- so I was just wondering what was going on?

You're making us guess by not providing many details but my first guess
would be that ctris and ninvaders are not cygwin programs and don't use
Cygwin's version of ncurses.

cgf

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