Re: LYNX-DEV lynx using WYSE 50 terminals

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Bela Lubkin wrote:

> T.E.Dickey wrote:
> 
> > > SCO's terminfo for Wyse 50's pretends that it has only one attribute,
> > > and uses the "protected field" bit for it.  This allows you to get one
> > > and only one on-screen attribute at a time (reverse video), *without*
> > > the use of magic cookies and their associated "glitch".
> 
> > I know about that (my comments were about modifications for ncurses to
> > handle the uglier cases ;-).  ncurses has a version of that, anyway.
> 
> Which is the default wy50 terminfo entry provided with ncurses (or in
> the central terminfo repository -- and BTW, is Eric S. Raymond still
> maintaining that)?  I argue that the default should be the 1-attribute
> no-cookies version.  Many curses programs cannot run right with cookies,
> no matter how well curses does it.  Lynx *might* be a lucky exception
> since highlighted entities are often separated from each other by
> spaces, or are logically distinct in a manner that would reduce the harm
> of magic cookie-induced spaces.
> 
> (This is mostly irrelevant to Lynx...)

If you, or someone, could come up with some adequate text for (PROBLEMS?
INSTALLATION?) to point peaple in the right direction, it would be
relevant...

   Klaus

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