Re: lynx-dev lynx2-8-1/Linux patch for new VTs

[Philip Webb]

990328 Chuck Martin wrote: 
> Mar 28, 1999 Anthony James Garnock-Jones wrote:
>> I miss a capability to open a new browser window to explore sublinks.
>> As I run Lynx mostly on console on a Linux box,
>> I decided to implement a "open new browser window" feature
>> using the Linux VT_??? ioctl()s.
> There's already a way to do this without patching lynx.
> Put the following in your lynx.cfg file:
> EXTERNAL:http:openvt -sw -- lynx %s &:TRUE
> EXTERNAL:file:openvt -sw -- lynx %s &:TRUE
-- snip --
 
how widely available is  openvt ?  it doesn't have a man page on this system.

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