Hi Some time ago I complained about getting grafic characters instead of f thru z, etc., when ncurses updated from 5.3 to 5.4 Since then I discovered if I insert SetPCCharSet( false ) before the first write the problem goes away. The following program illistrates it: program ncur; uses CRT; begin if( GetPCCharSet ) then begin writeln("true"); SetPCCharSet( false ); writeln("true"); end else writeln("false"); end. Russ