Hey Alan!

 AI> That may well be it. I see libtinfo in Andy's ldd output of
 AI> syncterm.

He must have an older version since the source I just dl'ed builds fine and has no shared ncurses libraries linked.

I didn't try it since I already have the terminal I require and have for decades now.  /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux is your friend.

Life is good,
Maurice

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