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in reply to Game of life ran by unpack function

To run on Cygwin, the ncurses package is needed for "tput.exe". Otherwise, you get a message regarding that across the screen while it runs. It runs great and is very cool!

Link to tput solution

This helped me discover a new cygwin command in the process:
cygcheck.exe --find-package /usr/bin/tput.exe ncurses-5.7-18