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Re: lynx-dev Black background wanted


From: T.E.Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Black background wanted
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:18:23 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> >  
> > > Use ansi-color-3, or rewrite your terminfo files, or use Lynx 2.8.  
> > > Lynx 2.7.2 doesn't support user-defined color with ncurses.  The  
> > > binary distribution of 2.8 for OS/2 (once I can recover it from my  
> > > non-working ZIP drive) is built with color-styles, making setting your  
> > > colors quite simple (though with the current os/2-ncurses build,  
> > > 1.9.9g, background colors don't work _quite_ right.)  Until I can get  
> > with ncurses 4.2, the colors look ok (but not as bright as on Linux 
> > console) 
> >  
> > There's a better version of the terminfo in ncurses 4.2 (emx.src). 
> > I'm not sure if Ripoll's incorporated that (it's usually a slow connection 
> > to his site). 
>  
> I downloaded it the other day, but the prospect of building the 
> library is a little daunting. The whole archive is almost 6MB, and 
> there isn't anything like a README.OS2 or makefile.emx to help me get 
> started.  
once you have the environment (pdksh, autoconf), it's simple:
        unzip ncurses
        cd ncurses
        chmod -R u+w .
        autoconf
        cp {whatever}/config.guess .
        cp {whatever}/config.sub   .
        make
>   
> > > that binary distribution out, you'll have to configure and compile it  
> > > yourself; the current experimental source distribution compiles fine  
> > > out of the box if you have the other necessary pieces (autoconf, ash  
> > > or pdksh, and ncurses).  
> > I'd add the EMX configure script to the lynx development version, but 
> > that's a relatively small part of what he'd need to build. 
>  
> Every little bit helps. I'm just discovering the wonders of Autoconf 
> so I may get things sorted in a couple of weeks. It seems like a long, 
> hard slog unless you're a Unix and C guru... 
>   
> > --  
> > Thomas E. Dickey 
> > address@hidden 
> > http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey 
>  
> --  
> John 


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