Turns out you have to do a refresh of the "stdscr" window once before any other created windows will show up. Why? Dunno. Don't really care. Thanks for all the suggestions! Doug Pintar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/pipermail/lug/attachments/20111107/96321963/attachment.html>