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From: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Lynx-2.4.1 + ncurses on BSD/OS 2.0
Date: 27 Jun 1995 12:13:07 -0400
Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676
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Hi all,
Has anyone tried compiling Lynx 2.4.1 with ncurses support for
BSD/OS 2.0? I've tried both a modified "bsdi" target with NCURSES and
FANCY_CURSES, as well as the "freebsd-ncurses" target. Both will
build a Lynx binary, but when invoked, it does not produce any output
to the screen. A "lynx -trace" will show that it in fact goes through
all the motions of retrieving and parsing the HTML, but nothing is
ever output to the terminal.
The default "bsdi" and "freebsd" targets produce working binaries,
but without support for bold and underlined video attributes.
Strangely, an older Lynx binary (2.3.7) which was compiled with
ncurses under BSD/OS 1.1 *does* work properly on a BSD/OS 2.0 machine.
Rebuilding it under BSD/OS 2.0 produces the flawed binary.
Has anyone run into this problem on their BSD/OS systems? if it's
a bug in ncurses, I'll try installing 1.9.1a and rebuilding.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org