Re: LYNX-DEV Wyse terminal difficulties

[T.E.Dickey]

> I swithced switched to the terminal type to wy50-mc (magic cookies) and
> received a much better screen appearance.  My first hurdle, and a major
> one at that, is the enter (or ^g) is still not behaving.
> 
> I do have an install base to contend with (not by choice) so I will
> attempt some adjustments on their end.
> 
> I am not sure of the version of ncurses that I have now.  But if the
> screen attributes were improved, is this an indication that my ncurses
> is at least 1.9.9g or better? Because I have an install base to contend
it's defined in the header files (e.g., curses.h) as NCURSES_VERSION.

Someone added some code last fall to (better) support magic cookies,
but I'm still regarding it as untested since they didn't actually
test on a terminal with those attributes -- just looked at the
traces (but I'm reasonably willing to do maintenance on it).


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Thomas E. Dickey
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