Re: lynx-dev Re: LYNX (French Hospital) Help

[dickey]

> Alain, 
>  
> I am copying your request to <address@hidden>.  Perhaps one of the 
> French-speaking users of Lynx on Sun will contact you offline.   
>  
> In any case, have you reviewed 
>  
>         http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html 
>  
> ?? 
>  
> Ncurses is not absolutely necessary for Lynx, however getting it may save 
> you trouble in the end.  It could help to know if someone is using Lynx 
> successfully with the native curses on a version of SunOS as close to yours 
> as we can. 

When I do checkins on sol.slcc.edu, I build 5 variations (curses and ncurses
with normal and color-style, and slang).  All 5 build and run properly, though
of course there are a number of configure options that I do not check every
time.
  
> As I understand it, installing ncurses is a job comparable to installing 
> Lynx but you will need to get the ncurses documentation to follow.  It is 
> not described in the Lynx installation instructions. 
>  
> Some general information on Lynx and getting help with Lynx by email is 
> repeated at the foot. 
>  
> Al 
>  
> At 01:38 PM 6/12/99 +0200, you wrote: 
> > 
> >hello, 
> > 
> > 
> >We work in  french hospitals in Paris. 
> >We have a lot of terminals in character mode (HP760). 
> >We have a intranet and we must install LYNX 282, 
> >I don't understand how install the NCURSES around  LYNX. 
> > 
> >our sun : 
> ># uname -a 
> >SunOS office 5.5.1 Generic_103640-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 
> > 
> >Otherwise : 
> > 
> >I'm sure the  ncurses are going to help us 
> >but I have difficulties to understand all what the ncurses 
> >bring us on VT terminals , (I discover ncurses in fact, I'm novice in 
> ncurses) 
> >can you help us ? 
> > 
> > 
> >The last things : 
> >Can we adapt all our medicals web on LYNX ? 
> >are there any restrictions (for example can we send  html contruct in 
> >servlets) 
> >and can we have their lists ? 
> > 
> > 
> >Thank you very much . 
> > 
> >Nb : i hope you could help use, and my english is not very good..sorry. 
> > 
> >see you soon. 
> > 
> >Direction informatique 
> >Hopital Tenon (PARIS) 
> >  
> -- draft auto-response follows 
>  
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