Re: lynx-dev reverse vidio v bold links

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, David Jakab wrote:

> I will try a different terminal emulation, but I truely doubt that will
> change anything.  I just change the phone number in Miror, yet the
> displays are different at each isp.
> 
> As far as adjusting the Lynx config file or other parameters on your side
> of the phone line--I don't know how to do that.  Feel free to work with my
> account.  If we are not able to get the hypertext links to display in bold
> instead of reverse video (with reverse video used only on the link about
> to be selected) I will need to close my account and try another ISP.

There are a few simple things that you can try. Go to the option
screen of lynx and see if there is a setting for COLOR (on or off). If
so change that to the opposite and see what it does to your display.
If that doesn't fix the problem, go to the command line on your ISP
and type "env | less" or, if you don't have less, "env | more".
Look for the value of TERM. See if it is the same on the two ISPs.
Lastly, you may be able to change the settings for the color displayed
by lynx by changing the COLOR settings in lynx.cfg. This would be
more complicated, involving getting your own copy of a lynx.cfg
file and editing the COLOR section. You can then invoke lynx as
"lynx -cfg=$HOME/lynx.cfg", assuming that you placed your lynx.cfg
file in your $HOME directory. If this works, you could also set the
environment variable LYNX_CFG to point to your lynx.cfg file.
 
> I also have a question in to the Lynx developers, but they may be too busy
> to worry about this small item.

Klaus IS one of the Lynx developers.

I would also echo his advice about trying MS-KERMIT. It has the most
reliable terminal emulators available in DOS. 

It doesn't sound like you are ready to change your own TERMCAP or
TERMINFO descriptions, so asking the ISP to upgrade to a recent
version of lynx may actually be a reasonable thing to do.

> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
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