Thanks, Tim. I don't have a Time Machine backup of 10.6.2, but running locate I find copies of libncurses.5...dylib in /Developer/SDKs for 10.6.
The have substantially different sizes and earlier mod dates than the ones in /usr/lib. After I have a cup of coffee I'll try them. Best, John V. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:40:15PM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: > On Apr 12, 2010 at 09:30 AM -0700, John Velman wrote: > >I installed Snow Leopard over the weekend, with upgrades to 10.6.3. > > I just went through this last week. ncurses is somehow broken in > 10.6.3 - I found references to it, specifically about the arrow keys > on the internet. The solution for me (also found on the internet) > was to copy over libncurses.5.4.dylib and libncurses.5.dylib from my > Time Machine backup of 10.6.2. I saved the newer versions, but > suspect I won't ever need them. > > Hope this helps.