Hey Nicholas!   
      
    NB> Now I begin to wonder if you must _only_ have wide ncurses   
    NB> installed in order for golded's make option for WIDE_NCURSES=1 to   
    NB> actually work as expected.   
      
   Interesting.  I may have to check that theory later although the previous   
   build with the older ncurses was also WIDEC only with symlinks forcing the   
   issue.   
      
    NB> No need, really. I get it via CVS.   
      
   When was the last time they updated it?  20170303?  ;-)   
      
    NB> you have an even better working ncurses!   
      
   Other than golded+, I haven't noticed any improvement with the few apps I have   
   onboard that use/need it as a dependency.  Mind you I haven't rebuilt them all   
   with the new ncurses development schtuff so there might be something there.   
      
    NB> I'm fairly certain ArchlinuxARM uses a framebuffer   
      
   Yes it does.  I can confirm that.  However I had too many issues with the   
   linux terminal and their supplied systemd to make a good judgement call but   
   can say that a sysvinit system (slackwarearm) worked great even with a   
   customized 64 bit kernel that I built on a crosscompiler with the idea in mind   
   of getting a native customized aarch64 working on the raspi3 I was playing   
   with.  I think I wasn't too far from a stable one but I can't say with   
   absolute certainty given what I saw on ArchlinuxARM's aarch64.   
      
    NB> Well of course! Why change it up now? ;)   
      
   Especially after just under 20 years of doing fidonet this way.  Also I have   
   been using vi since the late 1980's and have yet to find a better editor.  I   
   got spoiled very early on.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Don't cry for me I have vi.   
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