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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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