On 2010-10-03 02:52 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
ncurses 5.7 - patch 20101002 - Thomas E. Dickey
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Ncurses 5.7 is at
ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu
Patches for ncurses 5.7 are in the subdirectory
ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.7
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ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.7/ncurses-5.7-20101002.patch.gz
You inadvertently dropped it into ncurses/patches instead of
ncurses/5.7.