You need a newer version of ncurses to build ntape. 
It is strongly recommended that you should use version 1.9.4+ of
ncurses since the scrolling code has changed and broke the watch
window. If you want to use an older version of ncurses you should copy
the watch.c version in the ancient/ directory over the watch.c file in
the distribution directory.
You need a tar that supports the -T option (e.g. gnu tar 1.11.2).
Archives are currently stored with tar cpT filelist.

To install ntape properly you should go through the following steps:
0. To compile ntape do
   (a) Edit the Makefile (especially BINDIR and MANDIR where the
       binary and the manpage should go).
       You should have a look at the defines DEBUG, OFFLINE and 
       WRITE_PROTECTED, too. But there's no need to remove the
       comments at the first time, only if you have problems with
       ntape, e.g. with wrong messages such as "Tape is offline" or
       "Tape is write protected".
   (b) Do
	make clean; make depend; make install
1. Set the environment variable TAPE to the appropiate device.
   Suggestion : export TAPE=/dev/tape
		ln -sf /dev/nrmt0 /dev/tape or
		ln -sf /dev/st0 /dev/tape or something similar.
   For colored ncurses applications the environment variable TERM must
   be set to linux for the right terminfo entry.
   ntape works great with color-xterm, too. But don't forget to set
   TERM as above.
2. Edit the DATABASEPATH variable in Install.sh, then do
	sh Install.sh
3. Edit ~/.ntaperc
4. GO!!
