Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?

[brian j pardy]

On Sat, Jul 17, 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> 
> > > Adding this patch, without any fallback for those who can't get their 
> > > TERM description right, suddenly increases the requirements for using 
> > > lynx-with-slang.  We are not talking about adding more encouragement 
> > > for Bad Things, but about taking away something that "worked" (for 
> > > many people at least). 
> > 
> > Only partly - they're (I assume) setting their $TERM to something other
> > than the terminal description that comes with rxvt, e.g., "vt100" or
> > "xterm" - or "ansi" or "linux".
> 
> So far we have:
> 
>  Who              term/emulator                                  OS
>  ===              =============                                ======
> F. Meunier:       rxvt                                           ??
> I. Cordeiro:     "the same problem"                            Solaris,FreeBSD
> Kim DeVaughn:    "lynx no longer works"                          FreeBSD
> Kim Scarborough: "not unique to any particular terminal program" FreeBSD 3.2

  BJP:              screen-3.07.06 at console, TERM=vt100, linux 2.2.10

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