Has anyone compared ncurses against the two Solaris 8 curses libraries?

[Larry W. Virden]

I'm wondering if anyone has did an analysis of the curses that comes with 
Solaris 8, comparing it to ncurses.  In the past, we've always linked
against -lcurses on Solaris for our 'production' code.  However, as
we begin looking at moving to Solaris 8, I get this question from one
of my developers:

Okay, I'll bite.  Which libcurses should we link against for Solaris 8?

-rw-r--r--   3 root     bin       765864 Jan  5  2000 /usr/lib/libcurses.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         16 Jun 22 12:40 /usr/lib/libcurses.so -> 
./libcurses.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       463544 Jan  5  2000 /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        91832 Jan  5  2000 /usr/ucblib/libcurses.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         16 Jun 22 12:35 /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so 
-> ./libcurses.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        66312 Jan  5  2000 /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so.1

The /usr/lib version is more than 8 times the size of the /usr/ucblib version.
Does it do something new and miraculous?

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