Well well... After this morning's "port upgrade outdated" ritual, I see that the ncurses library was updated. Suspicious, I tried "rogue" (which I recalled was failing as well, in hindsight) and it worked, and so did Gnuplot! Therefor it was a bug in the ncurses library introduced after some other modification.
I was baffled because VI was working (which doesn't use curses), so I guess Gnuplot uses it indirectly via "readline" or something. Perhaps "rogue" should be included as part of the ncurses test suite :-) It was written for it, after all, and believe me it gets hammered. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
