lynx-dev Re: Env var documentation

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998, Henry Nelson (address@hidden) said:
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| A feature perhaps some people on the list may not be aware of is that by
| unsetting TERM, or more correctly, setting TERM to "unknown" Lynx will
| prompt for the terminal type when it starts up.  This is very convenient
| for people who use Lynx from a shell account, but use many different
| types of physical terminals/emulations to log on with.  Before the
| advent of NLS and the need to supply multiple environment variables, I
| was letting Lynx handle the TERM environment variable for public access.
| Only hitch is that if you type in a terminal type which doesn't exist,
| Lynx will die.

Good to know.  That should be added to the User Guide, if it isn't already
in there (though I believe I've extracted the salient points, for inclusion
into the man page).

Thanks ...!

/kim