Amy Barnes
Finally worked out my problem was not that I didn't know to load hugs, I have a file missing -
[localhost:~] amy% hugs dyld: hugs can't open library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
Does anyone know what this file is or how I can obtain it?
If I recall correctly, this is for a Mac running Darwin. Right? I can't help you with where to find the file. I have a vague idea that there's a standard place to get unix-like tools and libraries if you're a developer and I suspect you need to go there but I don't know any specifics. Another way to solve the problem might be to build your own copy of Hugs customized to your machine rather than using a copy customized to the machine of the person who builds the binary package. If you have C compilers and the like installed on your machine, this is quite easy to do - at least, it was when I did it on a Darwin machine last summer. Just go to the Hugs website, download the source distribution and execute the following commands (based on the file hugs98/Install in the distribution). tar zxvf hugs98*.tgz cd hugs98/src/unix ./configure --prefix=$HOME cd .. make install The --prefix argument on the third argument is used if you don't have administrator privileges on your machine and assumes that $HOME/bin is on your search path. You may also want to use '--with-readline' to allow easier editing of commands to Hugs but that would depend on having the readline library installed on your machine. -- Alastair Reid alastair@reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk Reid Consulting (UK) Limited http://www.reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk/alastair/