Wes:

Congradulations.....

You took a different approach that I was considering for my initial work. 
I didn't want to try compiling on Linux until I had stuff compiling under
OS/2.....  

After finding I had the user libraries for ncurses installed, but not the
development support, I installed the additional related ncurses
packages....  After messing around for a bit, a make clean, make build and
then make install resulted in max comming up with the initial user database
configuration login.  Now that I'm that far along, I need to setup my user
and group for the bbs development, copy over a number of files from the
running (os/2 based) system and see where things go.  

With some slight configure file changes, we should be able to get this to
compile for OS/2 under the EMX setup (a ported version of GCC with a
runtime DLL that hooks unix type system calls back to the OS/2 equivalent
code) and see if I can get this running there also......  Could be
interesting to have three versions running in parallel (OS/2 max 3.01, OS/2
max 3.02b and Linux max 3.02b).....  It will be a bit before I unleash the
3.02b versions (or later) for live user testing here.  I notice there are
still some configuration issues to work out.....

Take care......

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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