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Re: lynx-dev Most users' experience (was: 2.8.3dev.8 patch 3...)


From: T.E.Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Most users' experience (was: 2.8.3dev.8 patch 3...)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:34:32 -0400 (EDT)

> On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 03:56:06PM -0400, Gregory A Lundberg wrote: 
> > The darned thing scrolls the screen on every link, rendering the page 
> > unreadable.  Does not do it with the Redhat RPM, only when I try to install 
> > the offical tarball from lynx-dev.  Makes browsing an FTP index very hard 
> > .. have to count lines and hope I get it right.  We won't even talk about 
> > what Microsoft's site looks like; I take it as a given they do'nt know what 
> > they're doing, so I don't care if  it's unreadable. 
>  
> I'll throw in my $0.02: my experience has been that Lynx works on 
> every UNIX system I've tried without any of the funny behaviour you 
> mentioned. I've had great success with SCO, HPUX, NetBSD, FreeBSD, DEC 
> UNIX, SGI, oh, and SunOS. I also understand how to set TERM, which helps 
> :-) 

It's a little hard to visualize (probably a mismatched $TERM which is
compensated for by the rpm configuration ignoring it in favor of 'vt100').

> <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/db/users/us/md/lib/bcpl/jspath/face.xbm> 


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