Re: LYNX-DEV features of interest to blind users

[Laura Eaves]

> From: "T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:25:33 -0500 (EST)
>...
> > however the -color option appears to be slang based. 
> no - that is an option which forces color to be shown -- or whatever the
> ANSI sequences would do -- even if the terminal description says color is
> not available.  So that would work on half the color terminals that I know
> of (not worth cluttering up ncurses).
>
> It should be no harder to build ncurses than to build lynx (just takes more
> diskspace).  BSDI's close enough to FreeBSD - which does build - afaik (I
> had an account on a BSDI box for a couple of months last year - long enough
> to build ncurses and a few other things.

I tried building ncurses on bsdi and it failed to compile.
I don't remember the details.
In any event, I'm unclear what the color stuff looks like when
compiling with ncurses.  Does it display
the colors defined in lynx.cfg?  That's what I'm afger.
--le