Re: lynx-dev Using lynx2.8.4dev.8 "damages" (ai)xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:06:45PM -0400, Ismael Cordeiro wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 address@hidden wrote:
> > Oops.  This might be a consequence of a patch I submitted that was
> > integrated at this release. But I thought the damage didn't affect Slang.
> 
> I'm also having apparently related problems. In my .mailcap I have
> 
> application/zip;unzip -v %s | $PAGER -S
> 
> which gives me the directory of a zip pile. With dev.8 I get
> 
> | Getting file://localhost/home/ismael/Mail/qwkp9811.zip
> | unzip -v %s | $PAGER -S
> | unzip:  cannot find %s, %s.zip or %s.ZIP.

I see this too.  It looks like something I broke at the last moment, since
a similar case that I used for testing no longer works.  (I think I'll
make a short patch to recover).
 
> The problem happens with dev.8 compiled with both slang-1.4.2 and
> ncurses-5.1-20000826. The problem is worst with ncurses because the previous
> screen becomes garbage and I have to restore it with ^L.

that latter is the problem that PG's referring to, I think.
 
> I'm using FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE.

which ncurses?  (that 1.8.6 version is a real albatross)

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