Re: LYNX-DEV SCO binary where to download?

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> Is there a lynx out there that lets you tailor colors/attributes?

There are basically two ways to go to get a `colorized' lynx, both
require a complete curses library to link to.

1) Get S-Lang (slang0.99-37.tar.gz) by ftp from space.mit.edu in
the directory pub/davis/slang.  Compile it.  Set the location of
the Slang library and header file in the toplevel Makefile for lynx,
and build lynx with a *-slang target.  Set the color scheme you want
in lynx.cfg.  Colors #3 and 7 do nothing in standard lynx.  The colors
replace the attributes for null, bold, underline, reverse (not absolutely
certain my explanation is technically correct) and combinations thereof.
Run lynx with the command line switch `-color'.

2) Get ncurses (-1.9.9e or later) by ftp from ftp.netcom.com in
the directory pub/zm/zmbential/ncurses.  (There are many mirrors of
this, so get the one fastest for you.)  Compile it.  To get color
in lynx you will have to patch in Rob Partington's styles enhanced mods,
or get the lynx2-6RP distribution (start from the lynx homepage:
lynx.browser.org).  Set the color scheme you want in lynx.cfg.  Rob's
styles modification allows you to set colors for a number of html
markup elements, so you can get greater variety and finer control than
with slang.  You will need a terminfo database file that matches your
terminal and supports color.  `ansi' and `linux' are two that support
color that I know of.  (There's an old image of this running on `pubLynx';
get the telnet URL from Subir's `Lynx links' at http://www.crl.com/~subir/
lynx.html.  Note that vt100 will not give you color.)  To be honest, I
have never succeeded in compiling lynxrp (post 22-Oct-96) on sunos4.1.3.

More details can be found in the lynx-dev archives over much of 1996.

__Henry
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