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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: comp.os.386bsd
Date: 2 May 1994 16:46:54 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2pum24$9mk@news.tamu.edu>,
Dan Hickman <hickman@prism.tamu.edu> wrote:
>I am running the FreeBSD 1.1 GAMMA operating system on a 386.
>I am  having problems getting the Lynx2.2 software to work correctly.  The
>problem is that the bold and underline don't work correctly and I am pretty
>sure it is because the CURSES library is an old version.  Does anyone know
>if this is really the problem and if it is, is there a newer version that
>supports this.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I just read about this in the BSDI mailing lists, and there is a 
FANCY_CURSES option that needs to be set/unset for the new curses
library which is shipped with FreeBSD and BSDI.

Hope it helps,


Nate
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