Hey Nicholas!   
      
    NB> Golded, however, even while ncurses was changing those ANSI line   
    NB> drawings to q, x, and a couple other letters, now it's way worse,   
    NB> as in half the screen missing at times.   
      
   Ah yes!  Now I remember.  Also noticed that sometimes the vga colours (color)   
   weren't quite right for whatever reason.  I still see that in a few apps that   
   require ncurses but still use straight ascii characters such as msged.  I'll   
   have a looksee soon and see if that rears it's ugly head.   
      
    NB> My BBS software's configuration program also uses ncurses, and   
    NB> looks pretty bad there too.   
      
   Same thing with older kernel source's 'menuconfig' app except the kernel   
   people were on top of that issue quite quickly and had a fix for it.  I am   
   betting whatever fix they applied to that function might be a fix for your   
   issue(s).  The golded one is a tad more involved since they don't allow for   
   WIDEC which is now the default in ncurses.  In 5.9 the distributions were   
   providing both the WIDEC (eg libncursesw and libncurses) whereas now I only   
   see libncursesw.  Mind you the version I have onboard was built by nyself and   
   I never bothered with non-WIDEC and haven't for ages now.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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