I had this problem too after I upgraded cygwin. All I had to do to fix it
was to run the current cygwin installer and uninstall and then reinstall
cygncurses5.dll. Works fine for me now.
dwb
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David W. Brunberg
Senior Field Process Engineer
The F.B. Leopold Company, Inc.
227 South Division Street
Zelienople PA 16063
(724) 452-6300
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Page [SMTP:dpage@vale-housing.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 4:30 AM
> To: 'Henshall, Stuart - WCP'; 'Steven Williams';
> pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] psql & cygncurses5.dll
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Henshall, Stuart - WCP
> > [mailto:SHenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk]
> > Sent: 11 October 2001 09:11
> > To: 'Steven Williams'; pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] psql & cygncurses5.dll
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > I don't know why this is happening, but my first
> > thought is that you are still actually using the older psql
> > rather than your compiled one. Do a quick search to see where
> > psql.exe is. The pre-compiled version goes, I *think*, to
> > /bin while the tar ball from the postgresql site defaults to
> > /usr/local/pgsql/bin.
> > I've got a cygncurses5.dll which I can mail it to you
> > if you want (no guarantees of correctness, etc...).
>
> I got this problem myself Stuart after upgrading Cygwin the other day,
> both
> with Jason's precompiled version, and a 7.2 snapshot (I even tried
> ./configure;make all again). I restored cygncurses5.dll from an older
> version and all is fine now...
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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