Re: LYNX-DEV Options: Dotfiles

[T.E.Dickey]

> The problems with reverse video links and curses stuff is not fixable,
> since as far as I can tell, the new slang/ncurses/etc needs to be
> system-installed...something that isn't likely to happen here...though
> it definitely isn't mission critical...in fact, I'm starting to like it
> this way a bit.
both slang and ncurses can be installed in your home directory (though
it wastes diskspace).  The location of the terminfo directory can be set
by the environment variable $TERMINFO (I do that on my ISP and a couple of
other hosts, since, for example, they don't have a usable color entry for
minicom).  Just installing the needed terminfo stuff isn't much space:

total 16
drwxr-xr-x   2 dickey   ipusers      4096 Mar 22  1997 a
drwxr-xr-x   2 dickey   ipusers      4096 Mar 22  1997 m
drwxr-xr-x   2 dickey   ipusers      4096 Aug 16 12:32 t
drwxr-xr-x   2 dickey   ipusers      4096 Mar 22  1997 v

/homed/dickey/lib/terminfo/a:
total 4
-rw-r--r--   2 dickey   ipusers      1652 Mar 22  1997 ansi-pc

/homed/dickey/lib/terminfo/m:
total 4
-rw-r--r--   2 dickey   ipusers      1652 Mar 22  1997 minicom

/homed/dickey/lib/terminfo/t:
total 4
-rw-r--r--   1 dickey   ipusers      1263 Aug 16 12:32 testing

/homed/dickey/lib/terminfo/v:
total 8
-rw-r--r--   2 dickey   ipusers      1477 Mar 22  1997 vt100
-rw-r--r--   2 dickey   ipusers      1477 Mar 22  1997 vt100-am


(Likewise, libraries and headers are simple enough - set your $CFLAGS
and $LIBS variables during the build to point to the top-level directory
of ncurses during the build).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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