OK, here's what I think I've come up with: ncurses-runtime: shared libraries (in /lib) looks for files first in /etc/terminfo then /usr/lib/terminfo has linux as compiled in fall-back. terminfo manipulation programs man pages for the programs small terminfo database in /etc/terminfo includes ansi, dumb, linux, sun, vt52, vt100, vt102, vt220, xterm
ncurses-developer: static, debugging and profiling libraries (all in /usr/lib) header files (in /usr/include/ncurses) examples and documentation (including man pages ncurese-terminals: all of the terminals not in ncurses-runtime, installed in /usr/lib/terminfo I think this satisfies all the suggestions that have been made. Let me know if you see anything wrong. Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."