Re: LYNX-DEV lynx using WYSE 50 terminals

[T.E.Dickey]

> This question has come up many times in the past.  Lynx does not like
> the Wyse 50 very well.
with good reason (the forms get too crowded to do a "good" job with the
magic cookie, even if that were well supported by different flavors of curses).
 
> slang is the only thing I've gotten to do inverse correctly with the
> Wyse 50.  I'm not sure why; I tried it once and it worked so I didn't
Maybe - I don't have a real wyse50 handy (though one of the emulators I
have at work does claim to do that - I'll try to keep it in mind for a free
moment).  I've been testing with a modification to xterm.  Hadn't thought
to see what slang does, but I just ran a quick check (on my test xterm),
and it doesn't look very good (probably no better than the experimental
code I hacked in last month for ncurses -- I'll have to try that out &
see).

> bother to try to figure it out.  The Wyse 50 uses "magic cookies" 
> before and after highlighted text, and the way you specify text 
> attributes isn't like the ANSI model at all, and this is part of what
> has caused problems in the past.  It might work with ncurses 4.1, 
> which I must sheepishly admit that I have not tried for some time.
no. 4.1 only has an unusable fragment of code for magic cookies.
In the post 4.1 patches, I ifdef'd that (made it a configure option later),
corrected some bugs and implemented a crude display loop to force it to
show things correctly.  Time permitting, I'll optimize that.
 
> Jonathan Sergent / address@hidden / address@hidden

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Thomas E. Dickey
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