Thank you for posting this fix for building Curses.PM on Perl 5.8. I'm surprised it hasn't been incorporated yet. I downloaded Curses 1.06 from CPAN today, and had great difficulty getting it to build on Mac OS X 10.3 until I found this article. I patched the two files as shown, and made some minor changes to the c-darwin.h file and the build went smoothly. Thanks again!