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>  After installation, you can start the program by simply entering</P
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>  at the shell prompt. You will see a copyright notice, with
  an instruction to press any key to get started. Just press any character
  key, and you will be immediately taken to the main menu. All major
  functions of the program are found there.</P
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>  Entering the IPTraf command without any command-line parameters brings
  up the program's main menu. From there, you can select the
  facilities you want.</P
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>  IPTraf determines and makes use of the maximum number
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>  IPTraf does not yet have a SIGWINCH handler, and does not
  adjust itself when an xterm or some other X terminal is resized.</P
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>  
  IPTraf needs to refer to the terminfo database
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>Error
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by using the <TT
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  (typical for Slackware distributions), you can use the commands:&#13;</P
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>  You can place these commands in your <TT
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>  You can also create a symbolic
  link named <TT
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>  Or you can recompile your program to use your existing ncurses library
  installation. If you do this, make sure you have ncurses 4.2 or later.</P
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