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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:11:33PM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Jens Schleusener said:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:31:40 +0200 (DFT)
> > 
> > after the use of lynx version 2.8.4dev.8 (AIX 4.1.4, --with-screen=slang,
> > slang versions 1.4.1 and 1.4.2) the behaviour of my aixterm (also xterm)
> > is strangely changed/damaged. For e.g. using interactive commands like
> > "mail" or "telnet" (password input) I found that the input seems not given
> > to the programs. After killing that programs all the input seems to be
> > in a input-queue and executed after the kill by the shell (on the
> > commandline prompt). Previous version 2.8.4dev.7 doesn't show that
> > behaviour. 
> > 
> 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.

It shouldn't - that chunk (line 1054 of LYCurses.c) already was not using
slang.  I don't see the problem on Linux with either slang or ncurses versions
(looking at '!' command and a mailto link).
 
> It might be helped by a corrective patch at:
> 
>    Linkname: Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.4dev.8                                      
>    
>         URL: http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month082000/msg00217.html
> 
> Please let me know what happens if you try it.
> 
> Thanks,
> gil
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